• toast@retrolemmy.com
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, Nixon had been out for a while by this time. Reagan would have been newly elected in '81, but Nixon probably wouldn’t have been able to publicly get anywhere close at the time, even though they were in the same party.

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        5 months ago

        Because he was a power-mad heel that would have loved to keep being president indefinitely, if the threat of impeachment for illegal activities hadn’t caused him to resign.