Tom Carson, Author at The Village Voice (original) (raw)
Fifty years after Richard Nixon resigned, America might find itself confronting another outlaw POTUS.
On the 30th anniversary of Tricky Dick's demise we revisit Tom Carson's barn-burning send-off to the 37th POTUS.
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