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Here is the source: March 11, 1989. Houston Texas
The night Trump shook hands with Nixon in Houston
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/The-night-Trump-shook-hands-with-Nixon-in-Houston-14818516.php
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Rhiannon12866
(206,108 posts)liberalla
(9,264 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,108 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)I wonder what the occasion was, and what they thought of each other!
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)There is no comparison between Nixon and trump. Nixon was a zillion times smarter that the 2x impeached Dear Insurrectionist Leader.
But using folks like Roger Stone is systemic with the Rs. These folks like Stone, Manafort, Donald Segretti, Atwater, Liddy etc are masters of "dirty tricks".
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)Carl Rove.........
myohmy2
(3,177 posts)...friendship nice...
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)Trump and Nixon were pen pals in the 80s. Here are their letters.
The letters between once and future presidents show the two men engaged in something of an exercise in mutual affirmation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/donald-trump-richard-nixon-pen-pals-420567
The next fall, it is Nixon chiming in.
Let me be so presumptuous as to offer a little free advice (which is worth, incidentally, exactly what it costs!) Nixon writes to Trump. Nixon, who played football in college and never lost his love for the game, then unspools detailed thoughts on how Trump should handle the New Jersey Generals football team that he had recently purchased and would fold by 1986. (Nixon included plenty of shoutouts for the underappreciated linemen, his old position.)
Trump, for his part, is unabashed about one of his aims for the relationship: One of my great ambitions is to have the Nixons as residents in Trump Tower, he writes that October.
malaise
(269,187 posts)Roger Stone adored both of them and all three are criminals
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)... we'd all have something for our dartboard targets.
But this one is pretty good too. Well done Michael Beschloss!
calimary
(81,511 posts)czarjak
(11,296 posts)bdamomma
(63,923 posts)Crooks & Thugs, Inc.
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HUAJIAO
(2,401 posts)hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)The night Trump shook hands with Nixon in Houston
It is real. March 11, 1989 Houston Texas. And, Beschloss does not deserve to be libeled in this way.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/The-night-Trump-shook-hands-with-Nixon-in-Houston-14818516.php
Beschloss would never make that mistake.
HUAJIAO
(2,401 posts)jeesh,,,, calm down....
I don;t mind being corrected but being accused of...libel?
Come on this is an online discussion board....
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)for someone the caliber of Michael Beschloss and it is disturbing to see someone accuse him of photoshopping his posted evidence of history.
Mistakes happen. We'll leave it there.
hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)Beschloss would never make that mistake.
spooky3
(34,483 posts)Even though he's leaning a little, this does not look like a 6'3" man shaking the hand of one who is 5'10.5".
HUAJIAO
(2,401 posts)hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/The-night-Trump-shook-hands-with-Nixon-in-Houston-14818516.php
The night Trump shook hands with Nixon in Houston
HUAJIAO
(2,401 posts)I need some more oregano tea....
MustLoveBeagles
(11,636 posts)So it doesn't look that strange to me. I don't think he wore shoe lifts then.
spooky3
(34,483 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,636 posts)It's so stupid of him to lie about it but comparing this to his other lies it's relatively harmless.
drmeow
(5,025 posts)Trump is all fake and plastic now - goes well with his wife.
sandensea
(21,674 posts)My prediction is that His Orangeness will be 76 when he passes away (i.e. 2022/23).
Meaning that to any concerns about his running in '24 are probably needless.
electric_blue68
(14,949 posts)I'd say about a 3+" inch difference from. a close look.