from the intercept article quoted above:
the good:
"It is true that the former president refused to vote for Trump in 2016, calling him a “
blowhard,” and that he eschewed the white nationalist, “alt-right,” conspiratorial politics that has come to define the modern Republican Party. He helped end the Cold War without, as Obama
said, “firing a shot.”"
“When a political leader dies, it is irresponsible in the extreme to demand that only praise be permitted but not criticisms,” as my colleague Glenn Greenwald has argued, because it leads to “false history and a propagandistic whitewashing of bad acts.”
..."“You and George Bush will wear that to your grave,” (ROGER) Stone
complained to Atwater. “It’s a racist ad. … You’re going to regret it.”
..."He made a dishonest case for war. Thirteen years before George W. Bush
lied about weapons of mass destruction to justify his invasion and occupation of Iraq, his father made his own set of false claims to justify the aerial bombardment of that same country."