Nixon Biographer Says Clinton Has 'Nixonian Attributes'

ABC7.com (Chicago) ^ | July 3,2015 | Nick Klein, Ali Dukakis and Tom Thornton

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's become almost clich in American politics to call a politician Nixonian or "like Nixon" -- and it's rarely a positive to compare an officeholder or candidate to the only U.S. president to resign from office.

Yet to Evan Thomas, the author of a new Nixon biography who also covered the Clinton White House, comparing Hillary Clinton to Nixon works -- to an extent.

[DoughtyOne]

Comparing Clinton to Nixon is laughable.

Nixon wouldn’t reach Clinton’s shoe-tops in relation to overall crimes and treason committed by the two.

[OttawaFreeper]

Like I said on another thread, she’s probably a lot more like Nixon than Nixon ever was himself, lol.

[Ray76]

She is far far worse.

[El Cid]

C’mon, Nixon was not that bad. At least he loved his country.

[SevenofNine]

ONe thing you say about Tricky Dicky least Dick Nixon is real American he got busted over Watergate listen to HR Haldmen and others

[Libloather]

Nixon had cankles? Why isn’t this Breaking News?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

EXACTLY exactly exactly what I was going to say. This is like comparing a guy getting a parking ticket to John Gotti, absolutely and utterly ludicrous. If Nixon did even 1/100th of the amount of stuff the Clinton grifters did, he would have been impeached, tried for treason and executed. Like I tell liberals, just name a crime and the Clintons have done it or have suspicious involvment. Murder? Yes. Rape? Yes, Assault? Yes. Theft? Yes. Fraud? Yes. Money laundering? Yes. Treason? Absolutely. On and on and on and on ...Probably the only crime they haven't done..yet... is sexually molesting kids but then again we don't know Bills full history when he was growing up in Arkansas. Without question, absolutely no argument, the Clintons are THE most corrupt politicians in this nations history. No one even comes 20 million light years CLOSE. And incredibly they are still doing it today and they are quite blatant about it!

"Mr. Nixon, you sir are a rank amatuer"

[Dick Bachert]

I thought the writer was concerned about Hillary’s 5 O’clock shadow.

[Skepolitic]

Indeed she has quite a few Nixonian attributes. Unfortunately, she lacks his competence in foreign affairs.

She also lacks the decency of Nixon to resign from public life when confronted with scandal after scandal.

And several of her scandals have been far, far worse than Watergate.

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"Nixon Biographer Says
Clinton Has 'Nixonian Attributes'"




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[yoe]

"She also lacks the decency of Nixon to resign from public life when confronted with scandal after scandal.

Which brings up the question of a candidates integrity is proven to be non-extant time and time again......then WHY is Hillary even allowed to run for POTUS? Cheating is a Clinton thing; lawlessness belongs to both Bill and Hillary and the Obama's and they are experts of getting the not-so-brain-dead to look the other way, the brain dead are the easy to fool sheeple..you know, the paid protesters, brainless rioters and liars....mayors and other civil servants whose morels and values have gone down the racist toilet. Hillary's baggage is way over the limit!

[katana]

And he was a great deal more intelligent than Hillary or Bill, succeeding despite having none of the slick charisma, in fact a persona and physical appearance that was quite opposite, of the latter. His downfall was at the hands of the American press, who were finally able to get their man after two decades of intensely trying. Nixon was no more corrupt than a small proportion of politicians and far less than most. The Clintons are a callous, calculating, and clumsy criminal enterprise from start to finish.

[Gay State Conservative]

What's far,far,*far* more worrisome is that she has so many basic character traits in common with Saul Alinsky.

*And* Mao Tse Tung.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

I'm thinking the Hildabeast has more in common with someone else.

[yoe]

"Nixon was no more corrupt than a small proportion of politicians and far less than most."

Spot on!!!

[Daffynition]

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[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your comments too.

I would go so far as to say that many of our citizens today, Bill Clinton almost single-handedly destroyed morals as a valued part of their life styles.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree. Interesting point...

Nixon was made out to be pure evil because of his taping.

Come to find out, Johnson and Kennedy did it too.

Never a harsh word about that, even though they not Nixon introduced it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if other presidents did some taping.

[dfwgator]

Nixon and Clinton became good pals in Nixon’s final days.