Remembering the Great Tamale Incident of 1976 that may have cost Gerald Ford the presidency

And then there was that time Trump ate pizza with a fork.

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That’s the real reason he had to flee NYC.

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Wasn’t he off his tits on drugs at the time?

Prescribed obviously, but so were Elvis’s…

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I haven’t heard that but it’s certainly plausible.

This is just hearsay, but someone told me once JFK almost botched some very important meeting with Cuba and/or Russian cause he was either crashing hard or took too much of some experimental “smart” drug which basically amounted to intravenous meth. I’ll have to look into whether that, and the Bush thing really happened.

Of course we all know Clinton smoked weed but absolutely definitely assuredly did not inhale any of it ever!

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I recall a magazine cover with George Clinton with the headline “Clinton: I inhaled”.

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That reminds me of an early-1980s trip the family took out west. On our way home, we stopped in middle-of-nowhere Wyoming for breakfast, and it was about as homemade as it could be, to the point of someone going out back to get fresh-from-the-chicken eggs.

That whole trip, we made a point of not stopping in big-name chains for meals. It paid off big time - we never had a bad meal once.

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My recollection of '76 is that what cost Ford the election was that time he went on television and said something.

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