Don't Sell Nixon Short With Hillary Comparisons

I am dismayed when I see my idol, Richard M. Nixon, compared to Hillary in the matter of hiding unflattering and even incriminating documents. It isn’t that R.N. didn’t try to conceal his inappropriate remarks and actions. Clearly, he did. Where the comparison breaks down is in who Richard Nixon was and who Hillary is.

Nixon tried to hide documents, just as Hillary has. But Nixon, on the offset, had immense achievements. What on earth has Hillary accomplished besides self-promotion? She brags that she has traveled a million miles around the world as Secretary of State — but without a single noteworthy accomplishment. That is a big, big difference. Nixon and Hillary Clinton, both hiders. Nixon, statesman and soldier of peace. Hillary, super self-promoter, so writes Ben Stein in The American Spectator.

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, and lawyer, who served as a speechwriter in the Nixon administration as the Watergate scandal unfolded. He began his unlikely road to stardom when director John Hughes cast him as the numbingly dull economics teacher in the urban comedy, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Read more reports from Ben Stein — Click Here Now.