I found an excerpt of the overexaggerated GOP loving and blowhard Monica Crowley from the McLaughlin Group show on how she worked for Nixons.
THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP HOST: JOHN MCLAUGHLIN PANEL: PATRICK BUCHANAN, MSNBC; DEMETRI SEVASTOPULO, FINANCIAL TIMES; MONICA CROWLEY, SYNDICATED RADIO COMMENTATOR; MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT TAPED: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2009 BROADCAST: WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 14-15, 2009
MR. SEVASTOPULO: Well, the stimulus package had already been passed in the House before he decided to accept the nomination, so that can't have been a factor unless he woke up one morning and said
- MS. CROWLEY: Yeah, he actually cited two reasons. He did cite the trillion-dollar economic stimulus package. He said he couldn't quite reconcile it. But when that vote came up for cloture, ending debate in the Senate, he actually abstained. So it looks like he could have stomached that.
The main issue was the Census. You know, Pat and I had worked with President Nixon in various manifestations of Nixon's career. They criticized Nixon for politicizing the White House. They criticized George W. Bush for politicizing his White House. And yet what we have here in the movement of the Census out of the Commerce Department into the White House and straight into the hands of Rahm Emanuel, who is one of the most vicious attack terriers, partisan terriers, that this country has ever seen, is a real act of politicization here of the White House. And I think that Gregg said, "Well, why in the world am I going over to Commerce if I can't really -- if my heart's not in selling the economic stimulus and they've taken away the Census from me?"
Yes, Crowley worked for Nixon but she worked for Nixon when he was no longer President and was impeached in office. She worked for Nixon in his reclining years. In 1990, she became Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon, a post she held from 1990 until his death in 1994. In addition to Nixon's travels to foreign countries to foreign leaders, Nixon had a full schedule of speaking and writing, completed several books during his post-presidential lifetime and built his presidential library and birthplace memorial.
Pat Buchanan did work for Nixon. He was a special assistant to Nixon through the final days of the Watergate Scandal. What about John McLaughlin? Through a friendship with his buddy Buchanan, McLaughlin, an ordained a priest, was a war supporter and speech writer and advisor to Nixon. Because priests weren't allowed to take on political jobs, his Jesuit superiors order him to return to Boston. He later left the Society of Jesus.
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