RICHARD NIXON went to China, but Stanley Kutler won’t be going to the Nixon Library – at least not to speak next month at a “Nixon as Commander in Chief” conference, which was canceled last week by the library’s executive director, John H. Taylor.
Several observers have suggested that the library got cold feet over the invitation to Kutler, an eminent Madison historian (and UW-Madison emeritus professor of history) who has been critical of Nixon and wrote a 1992 book about his tapes titled “Abuse of Power.”