The Post should be given “damnable, damnable problems” getting its FCC licenses renewed, Nixon told his staff.

That oration was for the purpose of “exposing the idolatry of the Romish Church, their tyranny, usurpations, damnable heresies, fatal errors, abominable superstitions.”

It would be comforting to believe that damnable regimes have been more given to this practice than decent ones.