When Donald Trump Partied With Richard Nixon
(Spare yourself of seeing them and others in a photo, if you'd like.)
HOUSTON They still talk about the Saturday night here 27 years ago when Donald J. Trump partied with former President Richard M. Nixon.
Dressed in tuxedos, they sang Happy Birthday to Texas royalty former Gov. John B. Connally and his wife, Nellie, whose birthdays were a few days apart as Nixon played the tune on a white baby grand piano. They dined at Tonys, the 21 Club of Houston, and Nixon was so fond of the cannelloni pasta that he asked the owner, Tony Vallone, to write the recipe for him on a yellow legal pad. And when it was all over, Mr. Trump flew Nixon back to New York on his 727 private jet.
It happened one weekend in March 1989.
It was one of Nixons first public appearances since the Watergate scandal had forced him to resign in 1974. And it was one of Mr. Trumps first presidential experiences, as he socialized with and had the ear of a former president for two days in Houston at a gala event, an impromptu after-party at Tonys, a Sunday brunch the next day at a River Oaks mansion and later aboard his plane.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/us/politics/when-donald-trump-partied-with-richard-nixon.html?
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)People can be judged by the company they keep...
rug
(82,333 posts)man on the moonshine
(59 posts)Trump is making me nostalgic for Nixon!
elleng
(131,288 posts)You're not the only one!
Aristus
(66,503 posts)Republican President: They give us someone worse! Nixon begat Reagan begat George W. Bush begat Donald Trump...
Yonnie3
(17,515 posts)"I am not a crook" as he resigns his office. Perhaps I am delusional.