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Admired by conservatives in the United States and elsewhere, he is strongly anti-communist[15]. Johnson has defended Richard Nixon[16] in the Watergate scandal, finding his cover-up considerably less heinous than Bill Clinton's perjury, and Oliver North in the Iran-Contra Affair. In his Spectator column he has defended his friend Jonathan Aitken[17] and has expressed admiration for General Franco.[18] He has, on the other hand, criticized European countries, in particular France, for being undemocratic [19].