Today is nine years since the Oklahoma City bombing and eleven since the Waco disaster; tomorrow is five since the Columbine massacre, and Thursday marks the tenth anniversary of Richard Nixon’s death (in August it’ll be thirty since his resignation).
Speaking of which, the following phrase appeared in Nixon’s resignation speech:
In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends. We must continue to build on that friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave.
Richard Nixon said this, 30 years ago. Guess things didn’t quite turn out that way, huh?
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 19, 2004 09:26 PM