In latest pronunciamento from defeated ex-President, he calls himself a “wonderful person” and golf “champion.”
Maybe ex-President Nixon will now issue a proclamation declaring himself a “wonderful person” and bowling “champion.” (This photo wasn’t the only time in Nixon's career that he stepped over a line.)
Ex-President Nixon would also like you to know that he is a swimming “champion."
Ex-President LBJ has been in touch to tell us that he is a swimming “champion” too. (Here looking like a figure in a Gothic painting.)
LBJ has also just declared himself a dominoes “champion”:
The Black Sox want you to know that they were the “champions” of the 1919 World Series:
Rosie Ruiz falsely claimed to be the “champion" of the 1980 Boston Marathon after she cheated and “sneaked into it about a mile from the finish line”:
In 1958, Arthur Hardman, salesman of cemetery plots in Houston, claimed he was “champion” of the Irish Sweepstakes. He alleged that he had lost his winning tickets but deserved the prize money (more than $140,000) anyway.
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Someone in Sarasota is bloviating against New York “prosecutorial misconduct.”
“The harder I fight for you, the harder they come after me."
“Murder’s OK. Human trafficking no problem. But fringe benefits — you can’t do that. . . .I have been fighting for you against the corrupt establishment — that’s all it is."
“I guess you’re not here to open an I.R.A.”—“Wall Street,” 1987:
"It's gonna be hard on you, but maybe, in a kind of screwed-up way, it’s the best thing that could have happened to you. Stop going for the easy buck, and produce something with your life.”
—Martin Sheen to son Charlie as “Bud Fox” about his imprisonment, in “Wall Street,” 1987:
"Bud, I like you — just remember something.
Man looks in the abyss.
There's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character.
And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”
—“Wall Street,” 1987: