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pnwmom

(108,955 posts) Sat May 13, 2017, 04:19 AM May 2017

I'd forgotten how Richard Nixon himself used to rail against "the Establishment."

No wonder the phrase grates on me.

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I'd forgotten how Richard Nixon himself used to rail against "the Establishment." (Original Post) pnwmom May 2017 OP

I'm now Jamaal510 May 2017 #1

+1, establishment sounds like normality ... wish we had some more establishment now uponit7771 May 2017 #2

We are all now learning why we have the institutions we have -- the hard way. nt pnwmom May 2017 #3

Yep. nt Kahuna7 May 2017 #4

And don't forget Spiro "Nattering Nabobs of Negativity" Agnew. CincyDem May 2017 #5

Thank you for mentioning that. Kath2 May 2017 #6

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)

1. I'm now

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Sat May 13, 2017, 04:24 AM

May 2017

confused what "the establishment" is after the past few years of the term being thrown around liberally and, in some cases, incorrectly.

uponit7771

(90,302 posts)

2. +1, establishment sounds like normality ... wish we had some more establishment now

Reply to Jamaal510 (Reply #1)

Sat May 13, 2017, 04:26 AM

May 2017

pnwmom

(108,955 posts)

3. We are all now learning why we have the institutions we have -- the hard way. nt

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #2)

Sat May 13, 2017, 04:36 AM

May 2017

Kahuna7

(2,531 posts)

4. Yep. nt

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #3)

Sat May 13, 2017, 05:32 AM

May 2017

CincyDem

(6,338 posts)

5. And don't forget Spiro "Nattering Nabobs of Negativity" Agnew.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Sat May 13, 2017, 07:28 AM

May 2017

He gets lost in the history of this because his forced resignation was "unrelated" to Watergate (IIRC). The fact that he got squeezed out before Nixon gives me hope that we won't see a President Pence. (Sorry - now that I've actually typed that out loud, I have to go wash out my mouth, and fingertips, with soap).

Kath2

(3,074 posts)

6. Thank you for mentioning that.

Reply to CincyDem (Reply #5)

Sat May 13, 2017, 08:14 AM

May 2017

I have always lived in Maryland and Agnew was, of course, a former Maryland governor.

I was a junior in high school, on the bus to go home, when it was announced on the radio that he stepped down. I still remember yelling "YESSSS" and clapping at the excellent news.

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