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"Some liberals and left-wing groups did compare Richard Nixon to Adolf Hitler, especially during the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal
. These comparisons came from activists and the counterculture, and they were not a mainstream political attack.
Evidence of the comparisons includes:
- Widespread sentiment: A 1974 book chapter, Hitler, Nixon, and Vietnam, notes that "the conviction that the United States had become like Nazi Germany was widespread among the New Left" in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Political cartoons: An anti-Nixon poster produced in the Netherlands in the early 1970s shows a playing card with the faces of both Nixon and Hitler on the same king, with a swastika replacing one of the card's symbols.
- Spelling "Amerika": Some activist groups during this period adopted the German spelling of "Amerika" to suggest that the United States was becoming fascist.
- Psychological studies: Some academics also drew psychological comparisons between Nixon and Hitler, focusing on their paths to power and self-destructive behavior.
However, mainstream political attacks largely avoided this comparison, and it never became a widespread political attack in the way that other criticisms of Nixon did.
Other instances of the comparison in political discourse include:
- In the 1960 presidential campaign, a letter from Ronald Reagan to Richard Nixon likened John F. Kennedy's ideas to those of Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler. The authenticity of this letter was debated.
- Some sources claim Nixon was compared to Hitler by his 1972 presidential opponent, George McGovern, but mainstream outlets from the time don't corroborate this. "
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