Posted on 04/07/2015 8:32:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
richard Nixon was so worried about his younger brother Donald’s willingness to trade the family name for business favors that early in his presidency he had the Secret Service put a tail on him and tap his phone.
Lyndon Johnson’s brother Sam Houston Johnson was such a falling-down-drunk that he spent a whole year of Johnson’s Senate career in a body cast from armpit to heel after breaking his leg in his own dining room.
And Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy became a national embarrassment when he registered as a foreign agent of the Libyan government and received a $220,000 loan during his brother’s White House years.
The latest imbroglio involving Hillary Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham—a Department of Homeland Security watchdog report last week detailed his efforts to press the federal agency for visa approvals while his sister was secretary of state—is proof that when it comes to political embarrassment, we not only all have our mothers, but our brothers and sisters, too.
“It’s extremely common,” said Douglas Wead, a former White House aide to president George H.W. Bush who is a student of presidential families. “Among presidential siblings, there’s often a good sister-bad brother phenomenon. I’m not exactly sure why, but one of my theories is that the black sheep grows up with this star sibling and now all of a sudden, they’re president or prominent and the brother says, ‘Hey, I tied my shoes before he did,’ or ‘I got an A in spelling in third grade and he got a B-minus.’”
“I think sometimes they do bad things because they’re trying to catch up across a chasm,” added Wead, who is writing a study of presidential siblings. “And so they make mistakes.”
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All the Rodhams should be in prison. This bunch is MUCH worse than the usual “embarrassing” relatives. They are con artists and crooks. But nice try, Politico.
I am reminded of “Billy Beer”.
Then there’s JFK’s bro-Teddy
He started out in public life by being expelled from his college, for cheating! Of course it all went downhill from there.
That covers just about every official east of the Potomac river.
Roger Clinton, the drug runner, comes to mind.
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