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They didn't need a wedgie for Eagleton. Once they got hold of the story of his having seen a psychologist for treatment for depression, it was adios, muchacho.

I firmly believe that it should be the other way--every potential national leader should be vetted by a panel of psych professionals. They would be the real brain trust.

It wouldn't hurt to give 'em a Stanford-Binet, while we're at it, either.

And ask them how big their hat is and how many cattle they run, too.

Kinda funny how all those report gathering missions for character attacks all came back to Nixon and in the end he was talking to portraits in the White House after five too many scotches.

The only thing he managed to build that endured is the Swith Boat Vets for truth. I'm still trying to figure out how both McCain and Kerry managed to come undone by a group started by Nixon that calls itself for truth.

Anyone who actually wants a political position should be automatically disqualified from having it. It should be like a prison sentence with time off for good behavior.

Glenn, I'm afraid you've been misinformed...the group was started by a homeless vet from Opalachicola, Florida.

His name was Steve Swith...

Great idea, Alan. Then we'd get, not only the unqualified, but the unwilling, too!

I can see it now...President Yossarian.

Swift Boat Vets for Truth invented by Nixon? ... is that like Al Gore taking the initiative to create the internet?

Are you trying to say Al Gore didn't invent the internet. I guess that means no global warming either.

Global warming and the Internet were both invented by a homeless vet from Lake Okeechobee, Florida, named Sam Swit.

From Wikipedia:

Richard Nixon's former special counsel Charles Colson has stated that he recruited O'Neill to be a "counterfoil" to John Kerry [15]. Kerry had come to prominence as part of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and had become a particular target for the White House since his appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The whole story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Neill_%28Vietnam_veteran%29

L-R, John O Neill, Tricky D, Chuck Colson

Those are Swith's shoes and hands on the extreme left. He himself is out of the picture.

I understand he still wears the suit he bought for that trip on AF One. It's a bit tattered now (36 years on) but, oh! the history!

"out of the picture" in more ways than one.

Its good to know that Sam Swit invented the man-made global warming theory, because SOMEBODY did, and it sure as hell wasn't Stu Sutcliffe or Pete Best.

On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.



"Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics ??? That one still cracks me up.

Another unlikely Nixon meeting was the time Hunter S. Thompson rode with Tricky Dick in a limo. HST came away very impressed with Nixon's knowledge of pro football. Actually, Dicky was a very smart guy by all accounts.... unfortunately he was also a weazel and a crook and a terrible president. I guess it just goes to show that IQ aint everything.


http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/enter ... sic/elvis/

Afterwards, the FBI typed up a report describing the visit. It reveals an Elvis who believed that God was likely to punish mortals who espouse anti-American beliefs:

"Presley indicated that he is of the opinion that The Beatles laid the groundwork for many of the problems we are having with young people by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music while entertaining in this country during the early and middle 1960's. He advised that the Smothers Brothers, Jane Fonda, and other persons in the entertainment industry of their ilk have a lot to answer for in the hereafter for the way they have poisoned young minds by disparaging the United States in their public statements and unsavory activities. "