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In reply to the discussion: JFK worked to keep peace, bring prosperity for all. Others since 22 Nov 1963, not so much. [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)But three presidential candidates, all running against the same man but at different times, were shot. That had never happened before or since in American history, even during volatile times like the Civil War era.
And even if someone brought up a connection between those assassinations, it would automatically be dismissed as "CT", like you just did.
Nixon was an asshole, as you admitted.
Nixon had an enemies list, as is well known.
Nixon was known to have been a crooked politician as early as the 1940s.
Nixon was not above committing other types of crimes, like breaking into Democratic Party headquarters.
And we'll never know what was on the 18 1/2 minutes of one of the Nixon tapes that were suppposedly erased by his secretary, Rose Mary Woods.