> Nixon on Fred Thompson: "He's Dumb as Hell"
> Source:http://tinyurl.com/2sd8lz
>
> Pres. Nixon didn't want Fred Thompson as minority counsel during the
> Watergate hearings because he doubted the mental capacity of the future
> actor and lobbyist.
>
> Nixon to Haldeman: "Oh shit, that kid!" Haldeman: "Well, we're stuck with him."
>
> Thompson, then 30, was appointed counsel by his political mentor,
> Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker, the top Republican on the Senate
> committee. Thompson had been an assistant U.S. attorney in Nashville
> and had managed Baker's re-election campaign...
>
> Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called
> "dumb as hell." Nixon did not think Thompson was skilled enough to
> interrogate unfriendly witnesses and would be outsmarted by the
> committee's Democratic counsel. ...

>
> Anybody else had this experience?
>

>I am not a fan of Fred Thompson because of his Scooter Libby stand,
> but I can understand how the Nixon quote might be completely off base.
> I have worked for "yankees" over the years and in unguarded moments I
> witnessed their contempt for southerners. They assumed because we talk
> slower than they do, that we must be stupid.
>

>
> "Chip37075" comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:1184076907.817079.135680@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

>>I am not a fan of Fred Thompson because of his Scooter Libby stand,
>> but I can understand how the Nixon quote might be completely off base.
>> I have worked for "yankees" over the years and in unguarded moments I
>> witnessed their contempt for southerners. They assumed because we talk
>> slower than they do, that we must be stupid.
>>

>
> Been there. Heard that.
>
> I recall back in the radio days, a lady from New York who opened up an
> elocution class to teach Texas "bidness" folk how to speak properly when
> coming to New York to "do bidness." This was, by her own words, so they
> would appear less rube-like in dealings with the sophisticates of New York
> City.
> ...

> Chip37075 wrote:
>
> (snip)
>

>>
>> Anybody else had this experience?
>>

>
> Yankees thinking we're dumb, because we talk slower?
>
> A former manager, who was a yankee, considered anyone
> from the south to be unable to identify good food,
> completely uninformed about property values, clueless
> about proper building codes, and generally dumb as a rock.

> Anybody else had this experience?

> "Chip37075" comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:1184076907.817079.135680@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

>> Anybody else had this experience?

>
> Don't get me started.
>
> Faye

> On 2007-07-10 23:19:04 -0500, "Faye" worldnet.att.net> said:
>

>> "Chip37075" comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:1184076907.817079.135680@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

>>> Anybody else had this experience?

>>
>> Don't get me started.
>>
>> Faye

>
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>
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