Quote by Conrad Black
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietna

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal. – Conrad Black

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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. – Conrad Black

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There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? Im not preoccupied with the opinions of others. – Conrad Black

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