“In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 285

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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