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Richard Milhous Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon Richard Millhouse Nixon was awfully good at fixin’ everything but Watergate sadly sealed a “tricky” fate 5/30/2015 submitted to – Cleri-who? – Poetry Contest sponsor – Kim Merryman

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Sara Kendrick

Date: 6/5/2015 12:37:00 PM

Way to go with this winning clerihew..Congrats..Sara

Viv Wigley

Date: 6/2/2015 11:56:00 PM

Nice one, John. Well done. Regards, Viv

Skat A

Date: 6/2/2015 10:27:00 PM

John, congrats on your Cleri-who :) WIN.... SKAT

Shirley Rebstock

Date: 6/2/2015 5:58:00 PM

Congratulations, good one

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/2/2015 5:33:00 PM

Yours really did deserved this great win, John. Glad to see it again here. congrats to you.

Eve Roper

Date: 6/2/2015 5:31:00 PM

John, congratulaitons on your win.:~) hugs Eve

Jan Allison

Date: 6/2/2015 4:30:00 PM

Dropping back with my congratulations John:-) Hugs jan xx

John Lawless
Date: 6/2/2015 8:44:00 PM

Thanks again Jan

Kim Merryman

Date: 6/2/2015 4:16:00 PM

John, congrats on your placement in my contest! I remember Nixon (I was a teen) being called "tricky Dicky". Excellent clerihew! Love, Kim

Sandra Haight

Date: 6/2/2015 4:11:00 PM

Congrats on your nice win, John! Love the way you summed this up in four short lines! Sandra

Duke Beaufort

Date: 5/31/2015 8:52:00 PM

They called him "tricky dick". He was a real piece of work. His dog was named "checkers". His wife was Pat. His daughter married an Eisenhower if I remember correctly.

Julia Ward

Date: 5/31/2015 12:09:00 PM

A good summing of the subject! I hope that your poem does well in the contest, John. Julia, :)

John Lawless
Date: 6/2/2015 8:42:00 PM

Poor Nixon may have been the first Utube moment....

Constance La France

Date: 5/30/2015 9:45:00 PM

John, it was a sad fate for sure, an excellent clerihew for the contest 7, and thanks for visiting my poem, shame, yes check out EE , he had astrangewayofwriting but I like it

Constance La France
Date: 6/3/2015 8:05:00 AM

funny!!!

John Lawless
Date: 6/2/2015 8:42:00 PM

he certainly was one shadylookingmisunderstoodpolitician.

Matthew Anish

Date: 5/30/2015 8:53:00 PM

He messed up his place in history with his paranoia. Good luck in the contest. Peace & Blessings Matthew Anish

John Lawless
Date: 6/2/2015 8:38:00 PM

HEY...just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you....

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/30/2015 12:45:00 PM

good one for him, John. I just noticed a glitch in the new "poems new (1 per) list. When You go to that list and cllick on Forms, it brings up poems by categories but then when I try to see this one, richard Nixon, I click on that title and see the nose poem instead. That is why i commented first to your other one!! anyway, I am sure loving this new list that allows us to see a variety of poets according to form

John Lawless
Date: 6/2/2015 8:37:00 PM

Andrea, tried that approach to viewing the poems and it seems a bit easier and less congested.

Judy Konos

Date: 5/30/2015 8:00:00 AM

Contest here you come! FRONT ROW

John Lawless
Date: 6/2/2015 8:35:00 PM

in retrospect ...I came, I saw.....I placed....

Jan Allison

Date: 5/30/2015 7:41:00 AM

excellent pen John - good luck in the contest:-) Hugs Jan xx

John Lawless
Date: 6/2/2015 8:34:00 PM

Thanks for the pre-contest kudos...