Over on Drudge today, an entry reads Archives: Tape shows Nixon too drunk to speak to British PM….
It details a story that, during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, President Nixon was too drunk to have a phone conversation with the British prime minister. But that sentence isn’t necessarily accurate. I guess I’m too nitpicky about language, but the article shows that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told assistant Brent Scowcroft that Nixon was too drunk for the conversation. There is no tape that “shows Nixon too drunk.” There’s only the word of Henry Kissinger in a phone transcript.
And I’m just saying that Henry might not be the most reliable or accurate source, especially when it came to getting access to the president during a crisis.
