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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. avrdsFebruary 25, 2012 at 4:22 AM

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

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  2. NebrisFebruary 25, 2012 at 7:24 AM

    *shudder*

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  3. JAbelFebruary 25, 2012 at 7:53 AM

    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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  4. TripplerFebruary 25, 2012 at 11:41 PM

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

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  5. Rick DiguetteFebruary 26, 2012 at 12:04 AM

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

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  6. JAbelFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:24 AM

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

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  7. James FergusonFebruary 26, 2012 at 7:56 AM

    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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  8. avrdsFebruary 26, 2012 at 3:38 PM

    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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  9. AnonymousMarch 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    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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  10. avrdsMarch 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM

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

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