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Old 05-24-2012, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by rp001 View Post
I saw nothing in the tease for the book that paints him as a bad person, just a normal person...And based on the situation at the time he did the right thing. Being painted "as a liberal" does not make him a bad person, in spite of what the reviewer slanted him to be in the article.
I guess the part about planting bugs at the GOP Convention was the "right thing".

I guess the unlimited freebies he accepted, as he did from Pan Am Airlines was the "right thing"

I guess his manipulating and reediting of an interview with LBJ in order to destroy him politically was the "right thing".

I'm not so sure.

New Biography of CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite Dents His Halo - The Daily Beast
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