Presidential Controversy Quotes
Although there were many irregularities in the 2000 election and many thought that Bush was not the rightful winner, Nadar’s statement is ironic. He entered the race as the Green Party Nominee and siphoned off many more votes from Gore than from Bush. In Florida, the pivotal state, Gore lost by less than 600 votes and but for Nader, Gore would have won and become President. Then for him to later blame Bush’s maneuvers for Gore’s defeat, ignoring his own determinative role struck most observers as the height of selective analysis.
The President invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House:
In the 2016 Presidential Elections, there were a few close states. However, in most states one of the candidates won by a signficiant margin proucung some states that supported Trump and some who opposed Trump--hence "Divided States of America".
In Tuck’s most famous dirty trick, he had signs printed welcoming Nixon. The first line was in English but the second was in Chinese Characters. Tuck, working against Nixon, had the signs printed and pretending to be a Nixon aide passed them out to the Nixon staff who gave them to people in the crowd. The Chinese 2nd line referred to the scandal where Nixon had taken a “loan” from Howard Hughes—the financier and industrialist and Nixon was desperately trying to get that story supplanted by other news. Tuck also did the same with Chinese fortune cookies and Nixon people enthusiastically distributed them.