Precedent for President Trump
By David Gordon
June 30, 2017
People who think that President Trump’s colorful remarks about critics are unprecedented should read Harry Truman’s letter to Paul Hume, the Washington Post‘s music critic, who had criticized a performance by Truman’s daughter Margaret.
David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and Distinguished Columnist at LewRockwell.com. He is also author of Resurrecting Marx and An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and editor of numerous books including Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard. Send him mail.
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