Jules Witcover of the Baltimore

Jules Witcover of the Baltimore Sun covered politics during Nixon’s pre-presidential days. He finds similarities and differences between the Nixon of that time and the Al Gore of today. Witcover’s theme is one that I mentioned briefly when I first compared the two — the post 1960 Nixon was cautous and highly disciplined, whereas Gore claims he is going to throw caution to the wind. I don’t actually believe Gore will do any such thing, but I also doubt that he is capable of the kind of self-discipline Nixon was able to exercise.