I'm pretty much willing to bet the house that, 42 years ago today,

when President Nixon made this announcement, nobody would've thought that an OPERA would result from the trip!

"Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy." 

Now THAT, boys and girls, is foreign policy! 

(Well, when you're not carpet-bombing Cambodia.)

 

 

The truth about my Vietnam War Era service

Given what has recently been revealed about Connecticut senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal's Vietnam War experience, I figure it was about time to come clean about my own. Despite what some may have written about my extensive and valorous stint as a soldier, I now must admit that, having been too young to cook or shave (much less enlist), I spent most of the war in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a Catholic elementary school.

Boy, it feels good to get that off my chest.