Not a real surprise, I suppose.
BooMan quotes him from a 1999 interview.
The New Deal taught us that if you narrow the disparity between social classes, social stability will occur.
As far back as Aristotle, at least, that notion has been part of republicanism, and of the inherited wisdom of what we would call "conservatism" if the name in America hadn't been captured by sadists and sociopaths for whom, respectively, the immiseration of the lower orders is an end in itself and a lack of empathy smooths the path of limitless greed.
My personal problems with Henry the K are (1) that he and RN reputedly sabotaged a deal LBJ was working on in Paris to end the American war in Vietnam before leaving office, (2) that after Nixon won the White House he and RN kept the war going so America would not, in Nixon's words, appear "a pitiful, helpless giant," and (3) that he threw the people of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge to please Mao and annoy the Russians.
Not the same list that was compiled by Christopher Hitchens in his red days and has since become dogma for the left.
I don't care about his war crimes.
The whole idea of war crimes is a mammoth fraud, a club to beat your enemies with.
War is war; that is, war is hell.
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