Safire: the mendacity was there from the beginning

Brad DeLong corrects Josh Marshall's contention that William Safire, who will finally be leaving the op ed page o' the Times, has grown more mendacious over the past 12-18 months.

Nope. He's always been that way. A great piece of research.

It's worth reading, if only as a warm reminder of how "quaint" (to borrow a word from our new AG) the machinations of the Nixon administration now seem.