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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,714 posts)
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 12:05 AM Mar 2017

Something for members of the Trump gang to think about.

How many of Nixon's associates were able to get the stink of Nixon off them and continue a career in politics after he resigned in shame ?

I can think of only two who had political careers after Nixon: Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger.

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Something for members of the Trump gang to think about. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 OP
Pat Buchanan? C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #1
How could I have forgotten the Original Deplorable? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #2
...and he lost an uncle at Auschwitz. PCIntern Mar 2017 #4
How can I say this? Turbineguy Mar 2017 #7
Quite a few won themselves some jail time too. shraby Mar 2017 #3
+1 n/t jaysunb Mar 2017 #5
Cheney n/t malaise Mar 2017 #6
and Rumsfeld H2O Man Mar 2017 #8
Leon Panetta and David Gergen were part of that administration too. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #9
John Dean has done alright also..nt monmouth4 Mar 2017 #10
Wasn't Darth 2naSalit Mar 2017 #11
I hope gang sticks. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #12

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,714 posts)
9. Leon Panetta and David Gergen were part of that administration too.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 12:53 AM
Mar 2017

The more I think of it the more I remember it started as a conventional Republican administration.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,714 posts)
12. I hope gang sticks.
Sun Mar 5, 2017, 02:57 AM
Mar 2017

I see him and his associates as more of a crime family than a political entity. He's Tony Soprano is a poorly fitted suit.

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