“Where there had been hope, there was now hopelessness. Where there had been courage, there was now cynicism. Where there had been life, there was a living death. During Nixon's reign, much of life was transformed into a nightmare.”

— Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

The Corrupt Presidency, p. 275
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

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British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer 1911–1983

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