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Other pundits downplay the accusations of treason and malfeasance, noting that Republican presidents were the first to enlist Chinese assistance in launching U.S. satellites (Doyle McManus, PBS's Washington Week in Review ; Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group ).
Both the state party and Votation.com downplay any concerns about potential voter fraud.
However , the overall thrust of the portion of the Nixon Library document that interprets Nixon's remarks on "Jewish Americans" is indeed to downplay Nixon's comic-book anti-Semitism:
Why does the Post play up the closing of the gender gap but downplay the widening of the marriage gap?
But a glance back at the Nixon Library's Web site reminds Chatterbox that for the Nixon Library, the fundraising (hence the need to downplay controversy) never stops.