Hugh Hewitt: Look forward, Mr. President

President Donald Trump speaks at a hangar rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. President Donald Trump, who is visiting Iraq, says he has 'no plans at all' to remove US troops from the country. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)San Clemente, California, in 1978 was the Elba of America. I went there fresh out of college for a job working as a researcher for David Eisenhower, which quickly became a job as an editorial assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon, who had finished his memoirs and moved on to the two books I worked on, "The Real War" and "Leaders."

Early in 1980, Nixon moved to New York City, and I went with him, leaving in the fall for law school. I went back to…