<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>nixon's the One!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though born to a Quaker<br>Who would use “thee” and “Thou”<br>Nixon swore like a sea cook<br>fresh off some garbage scow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Named for King Richard<br>Of dubious fame<br>He too was “deposed”<br>at the height of his game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was great at “red” baiting<br>and exploiting the scare.<br>He served on committees<br>That McCarthy would chair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was chosen as backstop<br> for likeable Ike<br>When incipient scandal<br> forced him to the mike.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With wife, Pat, beside him<br>In her ragged cloth coat, <br>A cocker spaniel named “Checkers”<br>Brought sobs to his throat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he debated young Jack<br>He appeared quite Hirsute<br>Nervous and sweating<br>in his ill fitting suit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a receding hairline, <br>A ski jump of a nose<br>and a five O’clock shadow<br>from the moment he rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He lost to a Kennedy<br>He lost to a Brown<br>Told the press that no more<br>would they kick him around</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After years spent in exile<br>He returned to the fray<br>And defeated a Humphrey<br>Named Hubert one day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420117" data-title="Nixon's the One! de John F. McCullagh" data-description="Though born to a Quaker Who would use “thee” and “Thou” Nixon swore like a sea cook fresh off some garbage scow. Named for King Richard Of dubious fame He too was “deposed” at the height of his game. He was great at “red” baiting..."></div> </div> </div>

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