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In reply to the discussion: OK, Old Timers, I gotta say this: [View all]KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)84. My fav Nixon story
He had a staffer call a local pizza joint and order dozens of pizzas from the smallest pizza joint in town, delivered to his rival's campaign headquarters. Pizza guy shows up and gets turned away "we didn't order pizza". Hit the news, local pizza place stiffed by the candidate.
I love this story because it shows Nixon had no qualms about really hurting one of the hardest working types of small businesses that exist - just to get his jollies. A bully of the worst sort.
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you liked that bubblegum? It was always hard and broke into pieces too big to chew.
librechik
Sep 2019
#8
Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, described the break-in as "a third-rate burglary attempt"...
George II
Sep 2019
#19
Different times, different laws. This whole thing is way more important than some semen stain
ancianita
Sep 2019
#25
The Koch's, The Family, 1%, etc. had a plan ready to implement from the get go.
Ligyron
Sep 2019
#36
+1. Nixon would have survived were it not for cover up and that so many were tired of VN war.
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#32
I am wondering if both of them and the rest of the Trump cabal will defect to Russia.
TruckFump
Sep 2019
#47
Well Watergate is what Nixon got caught on. There was that crap where he interfered with the
yellowcanine
Sep 2019
#51
However, if you only watched they live fox House hearing, with chyrons, and were not real
empedocles
Sep 2019
#56