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mourning-again-in-america · 1 month

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Nixon's cabinet was absolutely wack. Elliot Richardson, known as the Richardson of Ruckelshaus and Richardson of the Saturday Night Massacre, was Secretary of Health Education and Welfare, til he got moved to SecDef for five months before becoming Attorney General before the Massacre. Oh, and he was Secretary of Commerce for Ford.

Meanwhile Caspar Weinberger, who you know from Reagan's years, was FTC chair, head of Office of Management and Budget, and Sec of HEW.

The man also had George Romney in Housing and Urban Development and HW Bush as Ambassador to the UN!

#also hes the one who gave Dan Pat Moynihan and Don Rumsfeld a leg up #and then theres Pat Buchanan who was a campaign guy+ Agnew writer #thats not even getting into the powerhouses in Military/Int'l affairs (Kissinger Haig and Schultz)#and the powerhouses in high level Justice Dept positions (Bork Scalia Silberman)#like if you look at Ford and Reagans White Houses they just look like a decapitated Nixon admin

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