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Washington couldn't tell a lie, nixon couldn't tell the truth, and reagan couldn't tell the difference.
-Mort Sahl
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Washington Couldn't Tell A Lie, Nixon Couldn't

Mort Sahl
Washington couldn't tell a lie, nixon couldn't tell the truth, and reagan couldn't tell the difference.
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Back in 1980, the conservative movement was all-in for ronald reagan. once reagan won, they all wanted to be on the team. it was a landslide. everybody wants to bask in that glow. and then as the reagan years began, then the republicans, certain members of the party began to individually fall out and start talking about problems they had, secretly telling the media they thought reagan was a dunce and a danger to world peace, adopting the democrat line that reagan's finger on the nuclear button couldn't be trusted.
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I couldn't help but be struck that this guy i had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with american politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of obama's. it was under nixon that the epa was created. it was under nixon that osha was created. under nixon that the clean air and clean water acts were passed.
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Ronald reagan got a lot of democrats. i wish he hadn`t. i got to congress with reagan coming to the whitehouse. the reagan program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. he worked at it personally and also because reagan retained a popularity.
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Nancy reagan sort of downplayed that, you know - but she was quite successful. at the time she married ronald reagan, i think she was keenly aware that [reagan's first wife] jane wyman's career had eclipsed ronald reagan's, so she was very determined not to have that happen.
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George washington was the president who could never tell a lie, and richard nixon was the president who could never tell the truth. donald trump is truly the president who can't tell the difference.
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