The search warrant executed at former president Trump’s Florida residence Mar-A-Lago, was unprecedented, but so was the theft of 40-some boxes of classified documents taken by Trump & associates, and Trump’s failure to fully comply with a June subpoena to return all remaining government property improperly taken. Well, as far as most of us knew, the theft was unprecedented, then we learn that corrupt, former president, Richard Nixon, also absconded with boxes of government documents, having them sent to his San Clemente home, just before his forced-resignation, forced by his own party, in response to his corrupt acts. President Gerald Ford communicated with Nixon, getting him to agree to place all the materials taken in a large safe-deposit unit, which would only have two keys, one which he, Nixon, could retain, the other to be held by the National Archivists. Upon discovering this situation, Congress was aghast, and passed ‘The Presidential Records Act of 1978’, mandating the preservation of all presidential records to the National Archives.
Donald Trump admired president Nixon, wrote to Nixon, and the two struck up a winsome-correspondence during the 1980’s. Trump even adopted Nixon’s ‘Law and Order’ campaign slogan, and they had plenty in common, plenty of corrupt-tendencies, at least. Nixon wasn’t about Law & Order, neither was Trump; the ideology of law & order ‘for some groups’ just seems to play well with Americans. President Nixon & his friend, Bebe Rebozo, toured the ‘government owned’ Mar-A-Lago mansion & grounds on 7/7/1974, a month before he resigned his presidency on Aug 9, 1974. In another piece of irony, 8/8/1974, was the date president Nixon announced his impending resignation, which was televised (many of us remember viewing that); it was the 48th-year anniversary of Nixon’s announcement, when Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property was ‘raided’ by FBI agents to retrieve stolen govt-property. I will outline more parallels, at a later date, between the presidencies & personalities of Richard Nixon & Donald Trump.
In contrast, former president Dwight Eisenhower, when writing his presidential memoirs, “Going Home to Glory”, had to file a request from our government for EACH classified document he wanted to review, to make notes & confirm dates of events for his book. He had to travel to Fort Ritchie, where he’d meet with an officer, with briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, containing the documents that Eisenhower was permitted to review; the trusted, respected, former supreme Allied Commander had to read them in the presence of the officer, whom collected & returned them.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Sep 7 2022
UNPRECEDENTED!
The search warrant executed at former president Trump’s Florida residence Mar-A-Lago, was unprecedented, but so was the theft of 40-some boxes of classified documents taken by Trump & associates, and Trump’s failure to fully comply with a June subpoena to return all remaining government property improperly taken. Well, as far as most of us knew, the theft was unprecedented, then we learn that corrupt, former president, Richard Nixon, also absconded with boxes of government documents, having them sent to his San Clemente home, just before his forced-resignation, forced by his own party, in response to his corrupt acts. President Gerald Ford communicated with Nixon, getting him to agree to place all the materials taken in a large safe-deposit unit, which would only have two keys, one which he, Nixon, could retain, the other to be held by the National Archivists. Upon discovering this situation, Congress was aghast, and passed ‘The Presidential Records Act of 1978’, mandating the preservation of all presidential records to the National Archives.
Donald Trump admired president Nixon, wrote to Nixon, and the two struck up a winsome-correspondence during the 1980’s. Trump even adopted Nixon’s ‘Law and Order’ campaign slogan, and they had plenty in common, plenty of corrupt-tendencies, at least. Nixon wasn’t about Law & Order, neither was Trump; the ideology of law & order ‘for some groups’ just seems to play well with Americans. President Nixon & his friend, Bebe Rebozo, toured the ‘government owned’ Mar-A-Lago mansion & grounds on 7/7/1974, a month before he resigned his presidency on Aug 9, 1974. In another piece of irony, 8/8/1974, was the date president Nixon announced his impending resignation, which was televised (many of us remember viewing that); it was the 48th-year anniversary of Nixon’s announcement, when Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property was ‘raided’ by FBI agents to retrieve stolen govt-property. I will outline more parallels, at a later date, between the presidencies & personalities of Richard Nixon & Donald Trump.
In contrast, former president Dwight Eisenhower, when writing his presidential memoirs, “Going Home to Glory”, had to file a request from our government for EACH classified document he wanted to review, to make notes & confirm dates of events for his book. He had to travel to Fort Ritchie, where he’d meet with an officer, with briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, containing the documents that Eisenhower was permitted to review; the trusted, respected, former supreme Allied Commander had to read them in the presence of the officer, whom collected & returned them.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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