BREAKING NEWS: Parallels between Trump and Nixon? - NEWS TODAY
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Date: 2017-09-16

BREAKING NEWS: Parallels between Trump and Nixon? - NEWS TODAY

It's going to be the political question of this era: Is President Donald Trump crazy like a fox? Or is it something else?

There's no precedent for the mercurial Trump, but there is what Richard Nixon called the "madman theory," according to his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, and it's pretty simple: Nixon consciously tried to portray himself as unstable to give himself a hand-up over US adversaries in the Cold War.
Nixon's aides, including Haldeman and national security adviser Henry Kissinger were complicit in the gamesmanship, according to Haldeman's writings and recordings of Nixon and Kissinger. They knew he wasn't rushing to set off a nuclear weapon. But the Russians, as the theory goes, couldn't be so sure. After all, Nixon was a "madman."