TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The live prime-time farewell address is another presidential tradition gone by the wayside in the norm-busting Trump era. Ever since Harry Truman beamed into Americans’ relatively new television sets from the Oval Office on January 15, 1953, the evening farewell address has been a fixture of a departing commander-in-chief’s final days. Even […]
Tag: Richard Nixon
9/23/2020
POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Letters exchanged between President Trump and former President Nixon during Trump’s early years as a New York real estate developer were revealed Wednesday. The correspondence, apparently initiated by Trump, shows the two men expressing their respect for each other, as well as Trump’s desire to have the Nixons join a list of […]
11/11/2019
GOP/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I got elected as a 29-year-old kid the same year that Richard Nixon got elected in 1972. And politics today has gotten so mean and ugly and dirty, and everybody questioning motive and not focusing at all on trying to put things together, instead of disagreeing on substance, that you go […]
6/10/2019
IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[Y]ou can’t impeach somebody when there’s never been anything done wrong. We have a no collusion. We have no anything. There’s no obstruction. There’s no collusion. There’s no anything. When you look at past impeachments, whether it was President Clinton or — I guess, President Nixon never got there; he left. I […]