RMoney at Ford Field: MY WIFE DRIVES ‘A COUPLE OF CADILLACS’

[hifiguy]

45. That was before my time, but I have seen

video of the Checkers Speech and read about it in many books. At least Nixon wasn't lying about the coat, though he was lying through his teeth about the slush fund, which was a somewhat open secret even then.

I was old enough (17) to sit in the living room with my dad (a union mechanic all of his working life until he was injured) when ole' Dick resigned. My dad's comment? "Good riddance to that goddam crook!" Years later I read the famous quote of Harry Truman's:

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in."

Harry knew what was what, didn't he?

Watergate was my real political coming of age, though RFK was my hero at age 11-12.