They have zero charisma
Republicans give off no sparks
Richard Nixon, so woeful wooden
He was carved from Noah’s Ark
Ike and Mamie, a pair so excruciatingly dull
They spelled ‘live action’ – L U L L
And next to JFK’s wife, Jacqeline
Mamie was a dime-store mannequin
Fess up, GOP, you’re a party of Mitch McConnells
Liven up, like that Democrat clown ~ Ronald McDonald
Yesterday, we sat and watched
A sitcom on TV
From early in the 70’s,
But what was strange to me
Was hearing Archie Bunker’s rants
About the U.S.A.
And things that he was saying
Echoed words I hear today.
He argued with his son-in-law
About the government,
Defending Richard Nixon
To his daughter’s discontent.
That show reflects some current themes
But somehow in the past,
It made us laugh; those same thoughts
Uttered now leave us aghast.
Americans were shocked and stunned
‘Reason’ abandoned, injustice had won
On Sept. 8, 1974, when President Ford exited the stage
The Republican right was left in fistic rage
While the Democrat left was aghast, How could Ford do this
The scales of justice, now so sorely amiss
To pardon a President, guilty in every possible way
of undermining the law and his opponent just didn’t play
It cost Ford the next election, ‘cos Richard Nixon he’d pardoned
Voters’ adverse reaction over two years so hardened
They elected an unknown, a neophyte named Carter
next to whom the Ayatollah Khomeini looked smarter
Yet the country moved on, hindsight thanked Ford
~ That Biden pardon Trump ~ start petitioning the Lord
I am from a generation they call X
Not because it marks the spot
But because it marks the best
We are eccentric because we walked the moon
And because we shared lust as an essential need
But wait until you meet your resurfaced acknowledgement
A frantic existence you call Technology
Generation X from 1965 to 1980
Where Charles Manson, the flower childe
Meets the notorious Ted Bundy
Richard Nixon and watergate, who actually knew
That this was an era of being a shrew
The birth of individuality
Known for practicalities
Known for informalities
The ghosts of the Vietnam War
Known for diversities
The civil technicalities
Henceforth, a generation of creation is no more.
sir james saville HRH andrew battenburg/windsor sir
Larry parnes sir cliff richard lord boothby ronnie kray reggie kray jeffery epstein gisellaine maxwell anthony
kidman kevin spacy peter sutcliffe sir bob hawke
louie mountbatten richard nixon billy graham henry kissinger queen elizabeth 2
All different people at top levels who didn't really know
each other.? Or mix in the same circles, or were on the
Same upward pay grade so intruiging and thought provoking.?
Obviously the battenburg/windsors and louie mountbatten
Also the krays knew lord boothby and maybe others?
Would they have similar leisure intrests i know a lot of
Well heeled people do wimbledon.' So would that be meeting
Also functions, like state funerals, world cups would such
People go.?
December 5, 1941 - the day I was born
December 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor attacked
June 2, 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
November 22, 1963 - Assassination of John F. Kennedy
July 20, 1969 - Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon
August 9, 1974 - Richard Nixon resigned the presidency
November 9, 1989 - Berlin Wall came down
December 25, 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union
September 11, 2001 - Attack on the World Trade Center
January 6, 2021 - Insurrectionist attack on U. S. Capitol
Written September 11, 2021
Richard Nixon was the president’s name
It was Watergate that brought him shame
They wanted to impeach him, the F.B.I.
But he resigned before they could try.
Written 21st of March 2019
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Brave President Gerald Ford
pardoned Richard Nixon
for all his tricks, and
was impaled on the electorate's sword
Richard Nixon
Was full of tricks then
Disappeared in
Watergate's quicksand
Richard Nixon was quite slick
Most just called him tricky dick
But it was in Watergate
that he did participate
Ford pardoned him very quick
Richard Nixon could not tell the truth
George Washington could not tell a lie
Donald Trump can not tell the difference
He just wants to torture a spy!
Richard M. Nixon
Needed some fixin'.
His presidency failed,
When Watergate was unveiled.
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