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nixonwasbetterthanW

(1,317 posts)
Wed Oct 19, 2016, 05:34 PM Oct 2016

If Trump had any brains, he'd have bought off Tony or Hugh Rodham to join his audience. ...


... God knows, they have enough ethical baggage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/23/us/clinton-pardons-brothers-siblings-who-often-emerge-unflattering-spotlight.html

To Hillary Clinton's White House staff, they were known wryly as ''the Brothers Rodham'': Hughie and Tony, the first lady's bearish younger siblings, the president's occasional golfing partners, frequent visitors for family celebrations and holidays.

But all too often, the news they made was grim. ''You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf,'' a former senior White House official said.

The unflattering headlines included Hugh's failed campaign for the United States Senate from Florida in 1994, his awkward efforts to get involved in a class action lawsuit against tobacco companies, his and Tony's effort to distribute hazelnuts in the Republic of Georgia, which collapsed in a diplomatic bungle two years ago and Tony's failed marriage to Nicole Boxer, the daughter of Senator Barbara Boxer of California.

For half a dozen former Clinton aides interviewed yesterday, word that Hugh Rodham had taken some $400,000 in fees to lobby for a presidential pardon and commutation, may have been the latest straw, but it was not particularly surprising. ...
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