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elleng

(131,288 posts)
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 05:35 AM Dec 2016

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 Tony’s, 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 Nixon’s first public appearances since the Watergate scandal had forced him to resign in 1974. And it was one of Mr. Trump’s 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 Tony’s, 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?

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When Donald Trump Partied With Richard Nixon (Original Post) elleng Dec 2016 OP
Proof that "Birds of a feather flock together"... Pachamama Dec 2016 #1
He's as much of a Washington outsider as McConnell is. rug Dec 2016 #2
Criipes man on the moonshine Dec 2016 #3
Imagine THAT! elleng Dec 2016 #5
Standard Republican tactic to rehabilitate the reputation of an awful Aristus Dec 2016 #6
I am waiting on the Trump tweet that says Yonnie3 Dec 2016 #4

Aristus

(66,503 posts)
6. Standard Republican tactic to rehabilitate the reputation of an awful
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 02:15 PM
Dec 2016

Republican President: They give us someone worse! Nixon begat Reagan begat George W. Bush begat Donald Trump...

Yonnie3

(17,515 posts)
4. I am waiting on the Trump tweet that says
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 10:45 AM
Dec 2016

"I am not a crook" as he resigns his office. Perhaps I am delusional.

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