" Herman Kahn once told me that for most people their life's beliefs are formed between three and seven years of age , or in college . If you wish to convert someone , those are the periods in which to do it . For me that meant World War II . December 7th , 1941 , came one month after my third birthday , and Hiroshima , Nagasaki , and Japan's surrender on the Missouri two months before my seventh birthday . "
" Kahn's insight helps to explain Nixon's thinking . Born in January 1913 , Nixon had a deep admiration for Woodrow Wilson , who , in the years three to seven for him , was a titan . Wilson had won reelection in 1916 , led America into the ' war to end all wars ' and ' make the world safe for democracy , ' emerged triumphant , received a hero's welcome in Paris , and come home with the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations --- only to see them rejected by the Senate . Traveling across country by train , fighting for his League , Wilson suffered a stroke and ended his Presidency a cripple in the month that Nixon turned eight . In the years Nixon grew up , Wilson would be portrayed as a tragic figure , an idealist whose fight for his league had been sabotaged by vindictive and reactionary Republicans , and who had died a martyr's death -- for peace -- defeated and broken in a great and noble cause . "
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