Posted on 04/12/2015 9:01:28 AM PDT by VinL
WHEN my brother Michael was a Senate page, he delivered mail to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who had offices across the hall from each other.
He recalled that Kennedy never looked up or acknowledged his presence, but Nixon would greet him with a huge smile. “Hi, Mike,” he’d say. “How are you doing? How’s the family?”
It seemed a bit counterintuitive, especially since my dad, a D.C. police inspector in charge of Senate security, was a huge Kennedy booster. (The two prominent pictures in our house were of the Mona Lisa and J.F.K.) But after puzzling over it, I finally decided that J.F.K. had the sort of magnetism that could ensorcell big crowds, so he did not need to squander it on mail boys. Nixon, on the other hand, lacked large-scale magnetism, so he needed to work hard to charm people one by one, even mail boys. Hillary Clinton has always tried to be more like the Democratic president she lived with in the White House, to figure out how he spins the magic. “I never realized how good Bill was at this until I tried to do it,” she once told her adviser, Harold Ickes. But she ends up being compared with the Republican president she investigated as a young lawyer for the House Judiciary’s Watergate investigation.
Her paranoia, secrecy, scandals and disappearing act with emails from her time as secretary of state have inspired a cascade of comparisons with Nixon.
Pat Buchanan, a former Nixon adviser, bluntly told Jason Zengerle recently in New York magazine: “She reminds me of Nixon,” another pol who’s more comfortable behind the scenes than grinding it out in the arena.
As Hillary (snip)
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Certainly the case.
EXACTLY
Dowd basically said that, she just couched it in overly polite terminology.
The Kennedy men tend to save their affection for the female of the species.They're known to shower them with praise and,as we know,more than one has drowned in those showers.
LOL
I had to look it up and thought the exact same thing.
puff piece..
Hillary Milhouse Nixon..... I like it.
That was my first thought.
Yep, for the Kennedys, the little people were crap to be used for their gain. I’m sure he was taught to not engage the hired help, unless they looked good in a skirt. NIXON on the other hand was genuine, so he engaged on the personal level, but didn’t like politics.
And, Zeifman wrote a book about it - and it’s scathing. It’s called “Hillary’s Pursuit of Power”.
Zeifman also said that Hillary was “ethically unfit to be President”.
This is a THIN book that you can read in one evening. It’s very enlightening and shows exactly what Hillary did to try to prevent Nixon from having a lawyer, as well as other sneaky things she did to thwart Zeifman’s authority.
That’s the root of Nixon’s inferiority complex that eventually became paranoia. He was smarter, worked harder, and actually cared more for the citizenry than any of the Ivy League snobs who always put him down. I really feel sorry for Nixon. He wasn’t the monster the likes of Oliver Stone would like us to believe.
She;s trying to be William F. Buckley!
You ever watch his documenat her boss boy talk about being b****h Hillary was
If all the Republican candidates and leaders get on the same page and echo Romney and Rand Pauls comments of today, Hillary will be toast before she gets out of the gate.
Their points - bridge to the past, not trustworthy, Washington elite insider for 18 years, plays by her own rules.
Hammer those points home at every opportunity.
"Ambitious."
"polarizing"
"disingenuous"
"insincere"
"inevitable."
"Entitled."
"Overconfident"
"Secretive,
"Will do anything to win.”
"Represents the past."
"out of touch."
Has no one addressed "what is good for America and Americans" that factor? Hillary certainly doesn't fit that description any more that Obama and his communist/socialist handlers do in fact Ms. Clinton is more than likely more Socialist/Communist than the Community Organizer...she has embraced Saul Alinsky and his rules with zeal....from racist to sexist who needs more of that?
NO TO HILLARY!!!
Hillary is a “C” “U” Next Tuesday.
Fantasy writers.
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