If he was on Nixon’s team, the odds are pretty good he was a plant.
Nixon had to have the worst advise since Napoleon was advised to attack Russia in November.
“Yeah, go on the David Frost show. These British, they’re all on our side”
I saw Safire on Sunday talk shows a few times as the token conservative. He always struck me as a RHINO.
Oh for Pete's sake, he was a speech writer, not an advisor.
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