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MerryHolidays

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Sat May 1, 2021, 12:03 AM May 2021

Amazing footage: Richard Nixon was nuts, but he was smart

Sadly, the Republicans have foisted on us real pathetic beings like Trump and W...

At least Nixon had a brain. This is a press conference with Nixon in the Fall 1973 with newspaper editors:



And here is a June 29, 1972 Nixon press conference just 12 days after the Watergate burglary and just six days after Nixon told his chief of staff Bob Haldeman to request that the CIA block the FBI's Watergate investigation. It was the tape of these conversations that forced Nixon to resign the Presidency in August 1974.

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Amazing footage: Richard Nixon was nuts, but he was smart (Original Post) MerryHolidays May 2021 OP
I'll Get Back to You After 1 Hour and 49 Minutes Stallion May 2021 #1
energy independent by 1980.... trump woulda bailed on this after 5 minutes nt msongs May 2021 #2
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