Nixon Now Podcast

President Nixon came into office during rampant drug use in the United States, especially plaguing American cities. For example in 1960, there were over 200 narcotics related deaths in New York City. In 1970, that figure had risen to over a thousand. To talk about Nixon's drug control policy is Michael Massing. Massing is the former executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and is a frequent editor there and in other publications including the New York Review of books, The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of a definitive book on Nixon's drug policy called "The Fix: Under the Nixon Administration, America Had an Effective Drug Policy. WE SHOULD RESTORE IT. (Nixon Was Right)." Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.