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Boris Johnson, just like Richard Nixon, will be brought down by vanity
Middleeasteye ^ | 04/19/2022 | Peter Oborne

Posted on 04/19/2022 5:50:59 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Boris Johnson’s Tories, like Nixon’s Republicans, have become synonymous with falsehood and sleaze.

facebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonmessenger sharing buttonemail sharing buttonsharethis sharing button Ego destroyed Richard Nixon. Searching for control over all his subordinates and over history’s verdict on his administration, the US president installed a tape machine to record his every word. This proved his downfall.

Once the existence of the tapes was known, Nixon's opponents fought a court battle to force the White House to release them. Then the Supreme Court ordered him to release the tapes. They included the famous “smoking gun” tape, which documented Nixon and his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, plotting the Watergate cover-up.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: down; johnson; nixon; vanity
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Nixon would not be partying during covid
1 posted on 04/19/2022 5:50:59 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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No but Nixon would be putting in price controls in response to inflation.

I wonder if he was in office now, if he would want to reverse his trade policies with China?


2 posted on 04/19/2022 5:55:17 PM PDT by DannyTN
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FDR had a taping system. Nixon had Johnson’s taping system removed upon entering office, then later had a new one installed. Learn some history people.


3 posted on 04/19/2022 5:55:53 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t know if Nixon is in Heaven or Hell, but if he could see what’s going on today he’d tell us that covering for a few fans of his spying on the Democrats at Watergate is nothing compared to Obama and Brandon using the FBI to spy on Trump.


4 posted on 04/19/2022 5:56:13 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

The left was after him starting in 1947.


5 posted on 04/19/2022 6:03:54 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Boris Johnson is a useful idiot, he makes me sick. What a monumental let down he turned out to be.


6 posted on 04/19/2022 6:04:22 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Boris Johnson showed the world that the shamdemic is...well...a sham.


7 posted on 04/19/2022 6:05:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The first sentence in the second paragraph is the best part.


8 posted on 04/19/2022 6:06:10 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ChicagoConservative27

9 posted on 04/19/2022 6:06:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Tell It Right

We’ll put👍


10 posted on 04/19/2022 6:07:58 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: DannyTN
Richard Nixon was brought down because, as a rabid anti-Communist, he was loathed by the left who were hell-bent on getting even for Alger Hiss, among other things.

The left, then as now, included 95% of the media (and, at that time, there was no conservative media to speak of.)

That he routed the far left’s Golden Boy in 1972 was enough to seal his doom, IMHO.

(One could draw a parallel with PDJT in that regard.)

RMN wasn’t a great president, but he was a decent and credible one with some notable accomplishments, and he certainly didn’t deserve what happened to him.

11 posted on 04/19/2022 6:10:05 PM PDT by daler
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Obama’s crimes in office made Nixons little office snooping absolutely nothing. The real lesson of that time is that Republicans are stupid enough to pander to angry Democrats instead of standing together and telling them to eff off.


12 posted on 04/19/2022 6:15:22 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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No, he wouldn’t and Dick Nixon was nowhere near as stupid as the clownish BoJo.


13 posted on 04/19/2022 6:19:26 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Boris Johnson has gotten the UK into quite a pickle with this Ukrainian/Russian war. The people’s cost of living and inflation have shot up through the roof already, and the effects of their sanctions on Russia haven’t even really started to take effect yet.


14 posted on 04/19/2022 6:24:04 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. John 3:16 Z)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vanity didn’t do Nixon in, paranoia did.


15 posted on 04/19/2022 6:36:48 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Completely agree - Nixon was a good president in very difficult times. But the main reason the Left got him was that the Communists would never have won in Vietnam with him still in office - so they got him.


16 posted on 04/19/2022 6:51:40 PM PDT by Chainmail (99.36% of all statistics are made up on the spot)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nixon was brought down by the deep state. They tried the same thing with Trump, but Trump would not give-up. Then they finally got him with a corrupted election election.


17 posted on 04/19/2022 7:35:22 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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If Nixon ever partied, he might still be president (or at least have served out his term).


18 posted on 04/19/2022 7:44:03 PM PDT by x
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Complete rubbish... The prime minister of Scotland didn’t wear her mask and broke the law... Frankly, every world leader who mandated mask and lockdowns broke the law... The only difference... They aren’t being investigated. Do you seriously think that Trudeau, Biden, Marcon, etc... Didn’t have a party during Covid restrictions?

This whole birthday cake fiasco is the biggest pile of BS since water gate... Which in itself was a total BS, trumped up by Democrats who controlled congress and the senate to bring down Nixon... He beat them to it by resigning and saved the Republican party in doing so. Remember this... They broke into Democratic Headquarters... For what reason? Nixon won in 1972 by one of the biggest landslides in history. His problem was the cover up... But Hillary spied on Trump and where is the outrage? He husband got blow jobs in the white house from a 20 year old intern... Where’s the outrage.

Boris will be fine, as long as he tells them to piss off... The UK will re-elect him.


19 posted on 04/19/2022 8:32:32 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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I’m thinking he’ll be brought down by someone weilding a hairbrush!


20 posted on 04/19/2022 8:32:56 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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