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Just when you think there couldn't be any more dirt left to dig up on Nixon, Don Fulsom comes out with a new book, Nixon's Darkest Secrets, which paints Tricky Dick in the worst possible light,


The President's closest colleagues complained at the way Rebozo monopolised Nixon's time. General Alexander Haig, his last chief of staff, is said to have imitated Rebozo's 'limp wrist' manner and joked that Rebozo and Nixon were lovers.


Fulsom explores the unusually close relationship between Nixon and Rebozo, calling Nixon's 53-year marriage a sham.  Seems we have another Nixon movie on the near horizon.

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  1. They make an interesting couple you have to admit -- both very shady kind of people.

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  2. You don't see guys wearing pants hiked halfway up their chest nowdays.I always got a kick out of that fashion statement from my parents generation.

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  3. {Ahem ...} Interesting to say the least.

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  4. This reminds me of the story about Lincoln sharing the same bed with some guy.

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  5. I recall the Lincoln story raging for days in the old American History forum.

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  6. Maybe Bush had an affair with Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. As I understand the bandy prince had the run of the White House. Crawford Texas too,

    http://www.upi.com/topic/Prince_Bandar_bin_Sultan/

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  7. Stranger things have happened. A friend of mine worked for a leading Saudi woman in DC for awhile and she said Bush once complained about a world in which you have to kiss the men and not touch the women ....

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  8. Woodrow Wilson best pal "Colonel" House had his own quarters in the white house, will there be a book on them next? What garbage.

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  9. Uh, oh, anon. Don't give them any ideas!

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