Comments on: Diane Sawyer Speaks About Richard Nixon http://thenewnixon.org/2010/02/25/diane-sawyer-speaks-about-richard-nixon/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:16:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MK http://thenewnixon.org/2010/02/25/diane-sawyer-speaks-about-richard-nixon/comment-page-1/#comment-187381 MK Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:17:42 +0000 http://thenewnixon.org/?p=23318#comment-187381 Thanks for posting this, Robert, I hadn't seen it. I like Diane Sawyer's comment, "I think it was more than anything I was someone he knew and understood who could bring him word back about this other craft was like.” I very much like the idea of people bridging differing and perhaps at times scary worlds. It's somewhat what I have tried to do here at TNN, coming here to engage from the NARA side and the historian side (along with the very young Nixon supporter side) with people whom one might think I would find very scary, given the way the Kutler litigation played out. The more typical move is to find comfort among one's own kind and to complain about how the other side are the "bad guys." If Ms. Sawyer and Richard Nixon recognized the need to do that, it reflects well on them. John Taylor sensed the same about me, I think, but he is gone and I don't think anyone other than David Emig has picked up on that. Still, I felt a glimmer of recognition and thought I'd thank you for passing on a quote which made me smile. Thanks for posting this, Robert, I hadn’t seen it. I like Diane Sawyer’s comment, “I think it was more than anything I was someone he knew and understood who could bring him word back about this other craft was like.” I very much like the idea of people bridging differing and perhaps at times scary worlds. It’s somewhat what I have tried to do here at TNN, coming here to engage from the NARA side and the historian side (along with the very young Nixon supporter side) with people whom one might think I would find very scary, given the way the Kutler litigation played out. The more typical move is to find comfort among one’s own kind and to complain about how the other side are the “bad guys.”

If Ms. Sawyer and Richard Nixon recognized the need to do that, it reflects well on them. John Taylor sensed the same about me, I think, but he is gone and I don’t think anyone other than David Emig has picked up on that. Still, I felt a glimmer of recognition and thought I’d thank you for passing on a quote which made me smile.

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