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When Administrations Implode

Anonymous1161 Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 12:49 PM
The Emperor has no clothes. Finally people are beginning to notice.
CapitaLost Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 6:09 PM
Really scrawny and unpleasant looking chap, too. Some parts pretty much "insignificant", IYKWIM.
capitalust Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 10:01 PM
Kind of like Gollum with a pretend Harvard Law degree.

Administration meltdowns are hardly novel. In almost every presidency there comes a moment when sheer chaos takes hold, whether self-induced or as a result of an outside crisis.

Vietnam had effectively destroyed Lyndon Johnson by 1967. Watergate unraveled the Richard Nixon administration, as the disgraced president resigned in the face of certain impeachment. Gerald Ford could not whip inflation and was not re-elected. One-termer Jimmy Carter was undone by the Iranian hostage crisis and skyrocketing oil prices.

For a time, it seemed that Ronald Reagan's second term might not survive the Iran-Contra scandal. George H.W. Bush could not be re-elected after...

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