The ever-readable Daniel Finkelstein wrote an entertaining piece on Comment Central last week, noting the parallels between Richard Nixon and our own beleagured premier, Gordon Brown. And I weighed in with some Brown/Nixon notes of my own. As a footnote to that, I thought I’d flag up that it’s 34 years to the day since Nixon announced his resignation as US President. Ok, ok, it’s unlikely that our Prime Minister will go down the resignation/retirement route. But, as Matt points out in this week’s political column, there’s certainly some pressure on him to do so. Anyway, here’s a chunk of Tricky Dick’s valedictory speech, on 6 August, 1974:
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