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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

June 5, 2015 at 12:37 PM

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

Viv Wigley

June 2, 2015 at 11:56 PM

Nice one, John. Well done. Regards, Viv

Skat A

June 2, 2015 at 10:27 PM

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

Shirley Rebstock

June 2, 2015 at 5:58 PM

Congratulations, good one

Andrea Dietrich

June 2, 2015 at 5:33 PM

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

Eve Roper

June 2, 2015 at 5:31 PM

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

Jan Allison

June 2, 2015 at 4:30 PM

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

John Lawless

June 2, 2015 at 8:44 PM

Thanks again Jan

Kim Merryman

June 2, 2015 at 4:16 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

June 2, 2015 at 4:11 PM

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

Duke Beaufort

May 31, 2015 at 8:52 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

May 31, 2015 at 12:09 PM

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

John Lawless

June 2, 2015 at 8:42 PM

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

Constance La France

May 30, 2015 at 9:45 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

June 3, 2015 at 8:05 AM

funny!!!

John Lawless

June 2, 2015 at 8:42 PM

he certainly was one shadylookingmisunderstoodpolitician.

Matthew Anish

May 30, 2015 at 8:53 PM

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

John Lawless

June 2, 2015 at 8:38 PM

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

Andrea Dietrich

May 30, 2015 at 12:45 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

June 2, 2015 at 8:37 PM

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