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I am reluctant to dignify his hatchet job with a lengthy reply, but some of his claims are so defamatory that they should be addressed, if only for the record.
For myself, I find it tedious to read lengthy sections of text from a screen, though that is less likely to bother computer-philes and -phanatics.
He got it, and almost ran out of breath as he rattled off a lengthy list of the accusations against Nixon, including that he 'misused the FBI, [and] the Secret Service, to conduct unlawful wiretapping of American citizens [and] maintained a secret unit in the White House to violate the constitutional rights of citizens.
Well before then, Johnson's political agenda moves to front and center, best revealed in a lengthy section lauding the minimalist economic and political philosophy of Calvin Coolidge (perhaps his favorite American president) and in another passage concerning Norman Rockwell, whose representations of the "magnanimity of Middle America" send Johnson into raptures: "It is now possible to predict his [Rockwell's] emergence as an Old Master, like the Dutch genre painters, especially Jan Steen, or the English moralist William Hogarth."
2A more sophisticated approach would be to model the feedbacks between the economy and government transfer programs because economic growth tends to increase health spending and raise retirement benefits-although with a lengthy lag for the latter.