{"id":198451,"date":"2007-11-07T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/worse-than-nixon\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T04:48:00","slug":"worse-than-nixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/worse-than-nixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Worse than Nixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20071106\/a_iranpoll06.art.htm\">otherwise completely conventional story from USA Today<\/a>, I found this little gem at the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Meanwhile, Bush reached an unwelcome record. By 64%-31%, Americans disapprove of the job he is doing. For the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they &#8220;strongly disapprove&#8221; of the president. Richard Nixon had reached the previous high, 48%, just before an impeachment inquiry was launched in 1974.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I must resist urge to rub hands together and say, &#8220;Excellent&#8221;, like Monty Burns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Too late&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an otherwise completely conventional story from USA Today, I found this little gem at the end: Meanwhile, Bush reached an unwelcome record. By 64%-31%, Americans disapprove of the job he is doing. For the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they &#8220;strongly disapprove&#8221; of the president. Richard Nixon had &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1182,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-w-bush","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}