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26 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
President Nixon is a private citizen, and this office makes clear that he speaks and acts as such. - RZ
President Nixon's letterhead is somewhat different. - RZ RN's understated, elegant l...
One reason why people lose respect for Pete Rose is he does all that "Hit King" garbage. I know he needs the money, but the principle of it; Henry Aaron would shake hands at the supermarket, introduce himself as "Henry." A great man knows it and that's enough.
Ali is the exception. When you are indisputably the greatest of all time you have every right to say so.
And as Ali said of Henry Aaron, "He's the only man I admire more than myself."

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22 Jan
I think Rubio is so universally hated in part because everybody who's ever worked has met him. Quite breathtakingly stupid, but just arrogant, unctuous, and litigious enough to remain employed.
When Rubio leaves public life he cracks up within five years. Mark my word. Not out of duty or waste or anything like that; because then he's for lack of a better term alone with himself, and there's nothing there.
I mean, my God, go to Florida. I challenge you to find anybody who'll look you in the eye and say with gusto, "I'm a Rubio man!" It's like voting for a sack of warm meat.
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9 Jan
I want to make clear some definitions and open questions regarding pardons. First, under Burdick v. United States, a pardon implies guilt, and acceptance of a pardon admits it. I wonder if this is the only thing that has so far prevented pardons of the family and inner circle.
Next, self-pardons are an open question. They are technically legal but as I said go against the basis of the Western legal system for a thousand years.
It is an open question as to whether he could pardon while impeached and facing trial. The pardon power is absolute “except in cases of impeachment” – a political act – but this probably extends to underlying crimes.
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8 Jan
He is doing this, at 1:08, to fuck us.
Recently I said Rubio is like watching a man with no arms try to thread a needle. I think that’s the best description.
As usual, Rubio’s game is five years late and a thousand dollars short. You can’t talk sense to people who won’t listen. Birchers long ago made up their minds I’m a traitor to this country, for example, and would sooner spit on me than have me for dinner. That’s fine.
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6 Jan
The Constitution mandates that power over elections is vested in the States. In general this was both a check on Federal power and a tool of “discernment”; Hamilton insisted it would mostly result in candidates with broad appeal.
The States report election results to the Congress, where the President of the Senate tabulates the result. This is somewhat a vestige of the time when it took weeks for an envelope to get from Maine to Washington.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 says the President of the Senate “shall...open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President…”
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6 Jan
In 1962 I said the following:

“It is a mistake for the party to accept the beliefs of Sen. Barry Goldwater and write off the Negro vote. If Goldwater wins his fight, our party would eventually become the first major all-white political party. And that isn’t good.”
I characterized this as a matter of survival, and said the key to winning in the future was to convince black people they are better off economically and will have equal treatment under the law.
I kept my finger in the dike as long as I could, by God. Rather than carry the can you all preferred to watch Nixon’s back bend with the strain. That’s fine. If you want a job done, do it yourself.
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3 Jan
Bonds and Clemens were going to the Hall of Fame before the fall, as it were. That should end it. But you need to acknowledge they were the faces of a deep problem. Not just by their fame, but by their actions. The stonewalling. The game is worse for their behavior.
Schilling is to me a different case. He is by the standards I've always held very good, not great. But the Hall of Fame has opened the door to those players. Even so, that he has no friends is his problem. His play is not compelling enough to override that.
Schilling is also an example of a dumb trend in modern Hall of Fame voting: a well-known playoff game living too large in memory.
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