Just in case you've forgotten, we bring you this Seventies flashback:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

President Ford golfing with Tip O’Neill and John Rhodes, 1974:

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[rsdsharp]

1. Tip seems to be wearing pajamas

and I don't know what the hell Rhodes was thinking.

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Love Tip O - Rhodes pants, "oh my"....as George Takei would say - every year

Alice Cooper plays our golf course..he wears similar pants...but, that's Alice Cooper...

[MontanaMama]

3. Those are some fancy pants!!

Is Tip wearing a lavender ensemble? 🤣

[EveHammond13]

4. Dear God

[ailsagirl]

5. ditto

[delisen]

6. If more men dressed like John Rhodes, maybe we'd be better off

Is he this John Rhodes?

The one who told Nixon it was time to resign?


Rhodes will be best remembered for two accomplishments while in office: first, being the driving force behind congressional authorization of the Central Arizona Project, which provides water from the Colorado River to Arizona; and second, his presence at the August 7, 1974 meeting with President Richard Nixon at which he, Goldwater, and Senator Hugh Scott informed Nixon that he no longer had enough support in Congress to prevent his impeachment and removal from office. (The President announced his resignation the next day.)

Rhodes himself had maintained his support for the president until the release of the "smoking gun" tape. Saying that "coverup of criminal activity and misuse of federal agencies cannot be condoned or tolerated," he said that he would vote to impeach Nixon when the articles came up for vote in the full House. In short order, all ten Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee announced they would follow suit and vote for impeachment on the full House floor. According to his obituary in The Washington Post, the decision of the House leader of Nixon's own party to break with Nixon and support impeachment was the "coup de grace" for Nixon.[8]