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Letters reveal friendship between Presidents Clinton and Nixon
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| February 14, 2013
Posted on 02/14/2013 8:30:18 AM PST by Lonely Bull
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To: Lonely Bull
Any surprise here...”Tricky Dick” was NEVER much of a “Republican”. He was the Original GOP-e/RINOer. At THAT time Politicians could hide mUCH better that they could/can now.
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posted on
02/14/2013 8:41:09 AM PST
by
US Navy Vet
(Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
To: Lonely Bull
I guess they were comparing lying techniques. Actually Nixon was probably fascinated how Clinton got away with all the crap he did..”Um Billy, they got me on one gate but you had 10 million of ‘em! How did you do it?”
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posted on
02/14/2013 8:46:59 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: Lonely Bull
Ethically challenged birds of a feather flock together, it appears.
To: US Navy Vet
No, indeed...Nixon wasn't the fire-breathing conservative his detractors loved to revile. But there's something else at work here. At the time, Nixon was a member of the world's second most exclusive (2ME) club: living former presidents. Clinton was the only member of the world's most exclusive (ME) club: sitting presidents. Just about every member of the ME club will eventually join the 2ME club eventually, and every person who a member of the 2ME club understands the pressures of being in the ME club. They may see fit to call the ME club member and offer guidance where they can.
Nixon and Clinton were also members of two other very exclusive groups: Presidents who resigned the office in the face of pending impeachment, in the case of Nixon, and presidents who were actually impeached, tried and acquitted. The two of them could swap stories about executive legal intrigue beyond anything the average person could imagine. They had a great deal in common with one another.
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posted on
02/14/2013 8:55:19 AM PST
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: US Navy Vet
The only thing that could be called conservative about Nixon was his anti-communism.
Even though he did just about everything else the leftists wanted as president that alone was enough for our domestic communists to hate his guts.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:05:11 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Milton Miteybad
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:05:39 AM PST
by
Mr. Bird
To: Lonely Bull
This is about a former president reaching out to the current president. This was done all the time when Presidents were not ego maniacs. I recall a story of Eisenhower quietly admonishing Kennedy on the lawns of the White House over the Bay of Pigs. He never went public and it was done in good faith. What is astonishing to me is that Reagan, Bush and now we hear Nixon was very classy to Clinton; obviously a trait he did not adapt in his life and reciprocate to future presidents.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:06:47 AM PST
by
11th Commandment
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: Mr. Bird
You failed in reading the post
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:09:53 AM PST
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: skeeter
The only thing that could be called conservative about Nixon was his anti-communism.
That's funn-eee. Anti-communist.
Let's see. Who took it upon himself to ok the Council on Foreign Relations (globalists) plan to open up trade with commmunist China ?
The CFR "think tank" was writing about that YEARS before it happened.
Famous 3 little words keep popping up: new world order.
Wait, I smell some coffee, I have to go have a cup.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:18:10 AM PST
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: PieterCasparzen
Nixon earned his chops prosecuting Alger Hiss. Thats what I’m referring to.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:26:14 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: Lonely Bull
Clinton: I'm not a crook.
Nixon: And I'm not a pervert.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:26:27 AM PST
by
McGruff
(You are either with us or you are with the RINOs.)
To: skeeter
That was based more on political opportunism than ideology.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:28:14 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Maybe, but regardless of his motives he was still anti-communist at the time and that is primarily why the left hated him.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:34:58 AM PST
by
skeeter
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:42:39 AM PST
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RedMDer
(Support Free Republic)
To: Lonely Bull
They are both victims of Hillary’s haranguing.
One in marriage. The other in the Watergate debacle.
In both cases she goes right for the balls.
Misery loves company.
To: Lonely Bull
President Nixon, for whom I voted twice, was some what paranoid. That was probably due to the fact that so many people were out to get him, don’t you think?
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:56:46 AM PST
by
beelzepug
(Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
To: Mr. Bird
No. Clinton was impeached, tried and acquitted by the Senate. But resignation and impeachment are two things that don’t happen to most presidents, but one or the other did happen to Nixon and Clinton. In the time after Clinton’s acquittal and before Nixon’s death, those two were in a club all by themselves. They could no doubt identify with each other in a big way.
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posted on
02/14/2013 9:58:44 AM PST
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: Milton Miteybad
No. Clinton was impeached, tried and acquitted by the Senate. But resignation and impeachment are two things that dont happen to most presidents, but one or the other did happen to Nixon and Clinton. In the time after Clintons acquittal and before Nixons death, those two were in a club all by themselves. They could no doubt identify with each other in a big way.
Um...Richard Nixon died in 1994. Clinton was impeached and acquitted in 1999.
To: US Navy Vet
We can thank Richard Milhouse Nixon for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)....don’t know what that is?
Next time you’re in Walmart at the checkout lane, look around for a Jackson-Hewitt Tax booth....they advertise FREE 1040 submissions! What they are doing is downloading W-2’s for these EBT heiffers and lazy assed reprobates who already collect a government check or electronic payment so they can file their ‘taxes’ and get their ‘refund’.
In actuality, it’s an EITC return. JH does it because most of these leeches can’t with for the multi-thousand dollar checks from the government and opt for JH’s refund anticipation loans (RALs). They sign a few more forms and JH cuts them a frigging check on the spot.
I get so effing pissed every time I see this. Goddam leeches and goddam companies taking a cut of my money.
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posted on
02/14/2013 10:35:20 AM PST
by
Gaffer
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