In a world unsettled by “deepfakes,” politicians, voters, and journalists are struggling to navigate increasingly prevalent versions of unreality.
“Napalm bothers people. You get a picture of a little girl with her clothes burnt off,” Haldeman said. “I wondered about that,” Nixon replied. The US military commander in South Vietnam, General William Westmoreland, also questioned the photo, alleging at one point that the girl had been burned in “a hibachi accident,” but contemporaneous news footage showed planes dropping the napalm.
Kennedy famously won a debate with Richard Nixon on television, being the more telegenic of the two, two decades later Ronald Reagan, a former actor, would become president while playing the part of a cowboy on a horse, wearing a ten-gallon hat. In the race for the Republican nomination, the GOP selected “Dutch” Reagan—who’d appeared in Westerns like Stallion Road and Sante Fe Trail—over his rival George H.W. Bush, an actual war hero and veteran politician.
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