Posted on 11/09/2016 8:04:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
Former First Lady Pat Nixon knew Donald Trump would be a winner if he ever ran for office almost 30 years before Trump's victory in Tuesday's presidential election.
Her husband, ex-President Richard Nixon, wrote a short but complimentary letter to the president-elect back in December 1987 after she watched Trump on Phil Donahue’s TV show.
“I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me you were great,” Nixon said in the typewritten note, which surfaced in the biography of Trump author Michael D’Antonio published last year.
“As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office, you will be a winner!”
Richard Nixon wrote “Dear Donald” at the top of the letter and signed it “RMN” in blue script. Trump, then a young real estate magnate, had shared his views on what was wrong with America and how to fix the problems on Donahue’s talk show, according to Buzzfeed News.
“Well, I’m a Republican and the Reagan administration was doing a great job for the psyche of this country after we went through the catastrophe previous to that, but the last couple years have been really bad for the Reagan administration, unfortunately,” Trump told Donahue.
President Nixon, a fellow Republican, resigned from office in August 1974 as members of Congress drafted articles of impeachment against him over the Watergate scandal. He died in April 1994, nearly a year after his wife.
I believe Monica Crowley — who worked for Richard Nixon as research assistant in the early 1990s — had found a copy of a similar letter from Nixon to Trump when she was cleaning out Nixon’s office after he passed away in 1994.
Reagan too.
Nixon must be happy that it was hitlary he beat.
Oftentimes, a President recognizes those traits in someone else. They could see it.
Whatever. Nixon was just another big government globalist.
No, not Reagan.
No, not Reagan.
It’s good to hear they saw potential in him.
How do you figure? He made his reputation as a staunch anticommunist, as the Cold War era encompassed his entire career. "Globalism" wasn't even a word in those days, as far as I can recall.
Yeah, saw the photo today. Trump was young, in a tux, had to be his first inauguration.
He was a "staunch anticommunist in 1948. After that, not so much.
"Globalism" wasn't even a word in those days, as far as I can recall.
LOL. Nixon was the one who sold out our economy to the communist Chinese. Screwed us over big time.
By the way, global trade finally surpassed it's pre-1914 levels while he was president.
A very gracious lady, as was Mrs. Reagan and Mrs. Haig.
I read somewhere months ago, Trump was in fact opting to run for presidency in the 1980s, but held off due to Reagan running for office same time.
For Trump it’s been a long ambition. I wish him luck and much wisdom now that he has been given an opportunity to shine.
Let me see if I can find it.
"Only Nixon could go to China"
China was completely closed at that time. Another world. He made contact and "normalized relations". You seem to have some bizarre concept that they turned on a giant Economy Vacuum Cleaner at that moment of history.
I guess you could say that was the beginning of it, though. It was in the 1990's that I made "economic contact" with China. Say no more, say no more.
You need to read more.
Nixon was a traitor, who even Noam Chomsky holds up as a liberal hero.
A traitor because he went to China ?
I lived it. I read the newspapers.
What do you think he should have done?
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