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ROBERT WELLER’S article on Hunter S Thompson (Irish Examiner, February 22) states that Richard Nixon once said the writer represented “that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character.”

Fri, 04 Mar, 2005 - 00:00

In fact, Thompson wrote that about Nixon, in his infamous obituary of the former president.

Lorraine Glendenning

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