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Sat 21 Jul, 2012 09:19 am
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As the fund story broke, Nixon wondered where Ike stood. Thursday went by, and Friday. No word from the General - to the public, or to Nixon. But the
Establishment was at work: the very thing that had made Nixon godd "for balance" made him unpalatable in himself, seen through Establishment eyes.
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man - Garry Wills - Google
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5cVKKLSC788C&pg=PA97&dq=Nixon:+The+Leaders&hl=zh-CN&sa=X&ei=o4UST_epNs-PiAe8pLAw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=true
As the fund story broke, Nixon wondered where Ike stood. Thursday went by, and Friday. No word from the General - to the public, or to Nixon. But the Establishment was at work: the very thing that had made Nixon godd "for balance" made him unpalatable in himself, seen through Establishment eyes. He was there to draw in the yokels.
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What does "draw in the yokels" mean? "To attract the barbarians"?
@Strauss,
Thank you.
What does "yokels" refer to there?
As a yokel is usually an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside, he was there to "attract the gullible"..
@Strauss,
Strauss wrote:
As a yokel is usually an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside, he was there to "attract the gullible"..
The Washington snobs thought Nixon was there to attract the gullible (the yokels)?
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