You know all those interesting revelations from the Nixon tapes that we've been treated to over the years? Thank Robert E. Herzstein.
That's because Herzstein, a former Carter Administration official and attorney with Arnold & Porter, sued Nixon back in 1974. He did it in the name of countless American historians, reporters and just-plain folks, to keep Nixon from destroying all those damn tapes he made during his godawful-but-compared-to-today's-Republican-Party-almost-not-so-bad Presidency. And Herzstein won.
Now we've learned that Herzstein has died at age 83. But his legacy lives on. We cats are grateful that he helped keep the Nixon years in the sunshine — and not the deep darkness Tricky Dick preferred. And so we PURR.
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