To resurrect his political career, Yanukovych turned to an American political consultant, #PaulManafort, who had worked for both #Nixon and #Reagan and who was already working for Russian billionaire #OlegDeripaska. With Manafort’s help, Yanukovych won the presidency in 2010 and began to turn Ukraine toward #Russia. In 2014, after months of popular protests, Ukrainians ousted #Yanukovych from power and he fled to #Russia.
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I remember Richard #Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, which precipitated the #impeachment hearings which triggered his resignation. Only one person was actually fired — Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating Nixon. Two resigned because they refused to fire Cox — Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Total of three gone, and it was a scandal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre
Make America great again.
@DemocracyMattersALot
In my lifetime, I've lived through #Nixon (a criminal who had to be pardoned), #Carter (a good Christian who walked-the-walk), #Reagan (who set a record for admin officials convicted of crimes, #Clinton (who balanced the budget and record job creation), "Dubya" (who ignored OBL leading to 9/11, and invaded Iraq exploding the price of oil crashing the global economy), Obama (who brought us back and set record peace & prosperity), #DementiaDon, #Biden 
, and now #NaziDon.
@steter
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#Trump has demanded data on potentially thousands of FBI agents who worked on #jan6investigation
#MSNBC reports that this order came from #whitehouse and it seems it was possibly destined to expose the #FBIagents and #jan6prosecutors who have been fired or resigned on Monday Feb 3 2025
So, "this not a #Nixon, this is THE END of law enforcement without favoritism" #RachelMaddow
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-15-2024
..."In February 1970, Republican President Richard M. #Nixon sent to #Congress a special message “on #environmental quality.” “[W]e…have too casually and too long abused our natural environment,” he wrote. “The time has come when we can wait no longer to repair the damage already done, and to establish new criteria to guide us in the future.” He called for “fundamentally new philosophies of land, air and water use, for stricter #regulation, for expanded #government a”...
Dictator of #Spain, #FranciscoFranco, died in 1975 on #ThisDayInHistory. 500,000 died in the #SpanishCivilWar that brought him to power, and he had 200,000 more killed, but #Nixon had no trouble calling #Franco a "loyal friend & ally" ruling with "firmness & fairness". #Antifa
#Historians would also argue that the #Vietnam War served as a defining — if not redefining — moment in the history of U.S. party #politics. At the time, there was perhaps no bigger player in sculpting modern #conservatism than William F. Buckley, who in a 1968 column advocated the use of #NuclearBombs in Vietnam. In 1969, President Richard #Nixon nearly heeded that recommendation.
Pictured, William F. Buckley in Vietnam, 1969.
Credit: Stars and Stripes.
Corriere.it - Homepage by di Beppe Severgnini
Da Kennedy a Nixon, da Reagan a Clinton. I presidenti come imperatori: hanno segnato un'era
Translated:
Kennedy and Nixon, Reagan and Clinton. The presidents are like emperors: they have marked an era.
#Kennedy #Nixon #Reagan #Clinton
https://www.corriere.it/esteri/24_novembre_06/presidenti-americani-storia-severgnini-f7e994f4-dc5d-428d-9e68-d33493be9xlk.shtml
The question now is will the
Alec Baldwin Vs. Lettuce (Sweating 
) al la #NiXon camera footage work for some #AISlop post #LiveStream action on Twitch or something....
vs .
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October 20, 1973 - In what was immediately called the "Saturday Night Massacre," President Richard Nixon's Press Secretary, Ron Ziegler, announced that Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox had been dismissed. Cox had been investigating Nixon, his administration and re-election campaign. Nixon had demanded that he rescind his subpoena for White House recordings.
#SaturdayNightMassacre #ArchibaldCox #Nixon
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These interactions between #Trump & the #authoritarian leader of a country at #war w/an American #ally form the basis of #BobWoodward’s conclusion that Trump is worse than #Nixon, whose presidency was undone by the Watergate scandal exposed a half-century ago by Woodward & …Carl Bernstein.
“Trump was the most reckless & impulsive president in American history & is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024,” Woodward writes….
Lock him up
“If Trump wins, it’s open season on #Democracy.
The #SupremeCourt has said that a president can do pretty much anything they want to as long as they’re clever about it: fraud, abuse of taxpayer dollars, harming enemies, lining their own pockets.
All you have to do is get elected, and it’s yours for the taking.
The pardon of #Nixon gave us #Trump. We must do everything in our power to make sure history doesn’t repeat.”
#Fascism #ChristianNationalism
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-must-be-tried
Photo of the Day
It is September 26, 1960.
Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy are in a Chicago television studio for their first presidential debate.
The moderator, Howard K. Smith, sits at a desk separating the two candidates.
More than sixty-six million people are watching on TV.
And millions more are listening on radio.
Most of the people watching on TV will give Kennedy the win.
https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-d5b?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Black on black Nixon watch is another of my favorites. With a bulky strap, and I love how the white second hand pops against the black face.
If I could design watches for a living, I would start with this template
done differently 
Mechanic 