By: stavrosthewonderchicken
Nixon was the most liberal of any president who came after Lyndon Johnson. Freaky, ain't it? And they ask why I hate America....
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Nixon Reconsidered Johnson has gone down in the history books as the big spender for social welfare programs, yet federal spending grew faster during Nixon's tenure than during Johnson's. It was under...
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Yeah, I guess getting loaded before firing someone to take a fall for you does make Nixon seem more human... More human than say that stone--hearted cyborg Dick Cheney, or a great character like Lady...
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Well put, stonerose. It is funny, except for the whole nuclear-obliteration scenario, which seems like it was closer to happening than we might have hoped. I mean, not only did we have this paranoiac...
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P. Hello. S. This is..., Colin. The switchboard just got a call from 10 Downing Street to inquire whether the President would be available for a call within 30 minutes from the Prime Minister. The...
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By: stbalbach
In this case he got loaded on the night before he would announce the fireing of Spiro Agnew. Not only understandable, it makes him seem more human and thus likeable, given the distance in time it's...
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Prince, the secret is to do Schwarzenegger, only make your voice lower - so it scrapes along the bottom of your audible range - and more bored-sounding.
View ArticleBy: PrinceValium
It's funnier if you read the above in Kissinger's voice. I tried, but it sounded like Schwarzenegger. Al Gore said yesterday that the Bush administration is the most corrupt since Nixon's. Give the...
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
Scariest Nixon story ever: There was a biography I read of Nixon that talked about his early childhood. He described a dream he'd had about being a dog, and all these evil black flying insects coming...
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Nixon was this or that but he was no dummy and he was a good writer. And a very competent piano player! I imagine GWB getting severely injured if he tried to play the piano. Hmmm... maybe Nixon...
View ArticleBy: dglynn
I think Woodward already outed Nixon as the drunkest man ever to have access to ICBM's in The Final Days. As good a time as any to re-post Thompson's eulogy of Nixon.
View ArticleBy: Postroad
Nixon has been rehabilitated and his rep (till this revelation) was on the mend. Dare I suggest that with the present occupant of the White House, Nixon is beginning to look mighty good. Nixon was this...
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Don't forget that Nixon was so crazy, he even drove legendary sci-fi writer Phil Dick nuts.
View ArticleBy: ZenMasterThis
He's the best paranoid schizophrenic we've ever had. ... But how the hell did he become president? Any who would seriously want to be president has gotta have a screw loose. Which is why no one who's...
View ArticleBy: Faze
Geoff -- I like your wavelength. Since Nixon is the most hated and reviled American of all time (today's Bush hatred is but a pale echo), I'm trying to work may way around to digging him as maybe the...
View ArticleBy: geoff.
Nixon was an incredible badass. I mean he totally went off on hispanics, gays, blacks and I think everyone else that one time. Now he's into drinking and drugs. He's the best paranoid schizophrenic...
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In fact, I was just listening to Al Fraken doing his Kissinger on Air America. Incredibly funny stuff.
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Ben Stein, the financial writer, actor and quiz show host, used to work in the Nixon administration, and remains one of Nixon's biggest admirers. Back in the early '90s, he wrote a piece describing not...
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Today's news oddity: In October 1973, U.S.-Soviet tensions were peaking over the Arab-Israeli war, and British Prime Minister Edward Heath's office called the White House just before 8 p.m. to ask to...
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