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MerryHolidays

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1. When Nixon heard about this

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun May 16, 2021, 06:26 AM

May 2021

he freaked out. He was worried that Arthur Bremer, who was the one who shot Wallace, was a right winger and that this would hurt Nixon's chances in the 1972 Presidential election.

Nixon's folks sent out E. Howard Hunt to Arthur Bremer's apartment to break-in and investigate Bremer, but the FBI was already on the scene!

Politics is truly a nasty business, and it always has been.

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On this day, May 16, 1972, this was the major story on the front page of the New York Times. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2021 OP

When Nixon heard about this MerryHolidays May 2021 #1

I remembered this when you posted about Nixon. flying_wahini May 2021 #2

Nixon's paranoia was his down fall jimfields33 May 2021 #3

He won in a landslide, but he/his folks used corrupt/criminal means at every turn to achieve this MerryHolidays May 2021 #4

And let's not forget Roger Ailes, who began working with Nixon in 1967 and became "executive sop May 2021 #5