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Dana Milbank wrote Sunday in his piece on TNR’s “Post Apocalypse” that “in the mid-1970s,” the Post “took down a president.” That’s not true, says W. Joseph Campbell. To argue that the Washington Post took down Richard Nixon is to “misunderstand the scandal and to indulge in a particularly beguiling media-driven myth,” he says.
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