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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBy comparison Nixon was just a garden variety Eisenhower Republican with slight persecution complex
All of this and Trump does not drink... which may have been a small mitigation in Nixons rages. Angry drunk be very male pale and stale after all. Trump does not need those two martini's to cause global panic. He can be that insane sober.
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By comparison Nixon was just a garden variety Eisenhower Republican with slight persecution complex (Original Post)
Soph0571
Apr 2020
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gibraltar72
(7,500 posts)1. And through it all he kept a functioning government.
still_one
(92,110 posts)2. Nixon was no Esinhower, not even close
PSPS
(13,583 posts)3. In fact, Eisenhower was the last legitimately-elected republican president.
crickets
(25,959 posts)5. Certainly he was the last qualified Republican president. nt
Boomerproud
(7,949 posts)4. He got it wrong with "slight" persecution complex
It was his Achilles heel. He was spot on about the Thing.
mahina
(17,637 posts)6. Tapes prove he extended the Vietnam war for his own
Political gain.
I think thats what it was but o just cracked my eyes open so i might not have the words right.
I do know my Dad didnt have to go or didnt have to stay. and for that I hope Nixon rots in hell.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)7. Nixon was a gentleman and a scholar
compared to the ignorant, stupid, evil piece of shit that Putin and the Republicans put in the White House
Profoundly ignorant, incurably stupid, innately evil.