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I think the closest parallel is what we're seeing, you know, from the police, both what's being protested against right and one of the one of the things one of my kind of talking points as it's taking shape over the last three days has

been you know the police chief in in Los Angeles before the Watts

Friday it's a skin William Parker used to go to the Mississippi Delta to

recruit his cops right because he wanted racist dogs you know and, you know, talk about one of the most searing scenes in Nixon land,

which I talk about after the Newark riots, 1967, were subdued,

that's when police started shooting people in cold blood. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front

lines.

Here are your hosts. Next. Hello, welcome to War College. I am your host Matthew Galt. Our guest today is Rick Perlstein.

Perlstein is historian and author best known for Nixon Land, the rise of a president and the fracturing of America.

He's also written the forthcoming Reagan Land America's right turn.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks Matthew. Looking forward to seeing what we get up to. Yes, so

Nixon land is a chronicle of President Richard Millhouse Nixon, but also his

relationship to the American people and how Nixon changed the American people.

And it's also really popular right now.

I thought of you for the show when I saw you tweet out that the publisher can't keep it in print.

What's, what, why is it so popular right now? Why ever

when people want to be doing it's author obviously? Well it's it's about generally speaking, the canvas involves, you know, the various sorts of

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