TS: Richard Nixon vs George W. Bush

funny cuz i feel like these days, post vols 3 and 4, caro's reputation is for being a bit of a softie re lbj, but when that first volume came out i think it seemed like a hatchet job to some? he really does come off textbook psycho in it. nixon otm there: "it makes him out to be a goddam animal. of course he was." (then lol comes over all marlene: "he was a man.")

Nixon as avid reader of NYROB, even citing Clifton Fadiman! Was he the last prez to do until maybe Obama?

so after learning that mtv vj kennedy has a show on fox news (lol) and reading in her wiki that she chanted "nixon now!" at the clintons at his first inauguration, i had to look into it and found this http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/08/08/mtv-vj-kennedy-recalls-being-an-alt-rock-republican/

When the Clintons went onstage she chanted, “Nixon now! Nixon now!” (There was apparently a lot of Nixon nostalgia in the ’90s.)

“John McLaughlin was looking and I knew another headset was bound to intercept if I didn’t act fast, and I had to prove to him he was not the only Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) in the room.”

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/8f/36/858f36226e6cfc4e148618401bc24d8c.jpg

he'd become The Elder Statesman – the image he'd sold to credulous publishers and Beltway types – by holding salons in '80s Manhattan, serving homemade Chinese food and martinis he mixed himself. Apparently he cut quite the figure.

Now, of course, he has proven himself very deft on Twitter.

Richard M. Nixon ‏@dick_nixon 4h4 hours ago
'68 brought people in. Trump locked the door and threw away the key. If you can't see the difference, the hell with you.

My lord, it sounds just like him. HOW UNCANNY. PITCH PERFECT.

Gonna start a Reagan twitter. Post things like "Boy, this guy? Nothing like 1980."

]people who remember the 90s, was this a real thing? i can't find anything about it and am now obsessed with the concept of 90s youth describing themselves as Lovers of Nixon

now listen y'all. I don't share this video with just anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dvy8uFN31s

thank you.

Richard M. Nixon ‏@dick_nixon 11h11 hours ago
Bobby Kennedy was the coldest man I ever met.

Richard M. Nixon
‏@dick_nixon
I mean it. Bobby Kennedy should have burned witches.

no offense to alfred specifically, but i am seriously ready for an ILX plugin that filters out reposts of @dick_nixon tweets

but that's what the thread's for – the reposting of wisdom

Richard M. Nixon ‏@dick_nixon
These DNC wikileaks. This is why you employ plumbers.

Richard M. Nixon ‏@dick_nixon
Beyonce might sing about lemonade, but Arnold Palmer was the man with the real drink.

See? Anyone can do it!

I get the uneasy feeling that @dick_nixon might be a friend of ours, but I just hate to see anyone trying to sully up the good Nixon name.

All it took was G W Bush for Nixon's legacy to be reconsidered.

― the return of (burt_stanton), Saturday, September 13, 2008

I bet we all know how to update this, as fucked as it is.

https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/837659000581808128

I can't wait to see Trump's finger painting.

http://www.avclub.com/article/george-w-bush-takes-credit-snls-strategery-not-war-251447

@adamjohnsonNYC
39 of the 39 people indicted by the ICC for war crimes are African meanwhile Blair is writing NYT op-eds & Bush is taking selfies w/ Ellen.

Sometimes it's hard to believe Dubya was President. Is there a German word for knowing and remembering something but it not feeling real?

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