The Brothers Rodham

[mystery-ak]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-brothers-hugh-tony-rodham-116674.html?hp=m1#.VSPiz5OGNOV

The Brothers Rodham

Hillary’s brothers are part of a long tradition of embarrassing political siblings.

By TODD S. PURDUM

April 05, 2015

Richard Nixon was so worried about his younger brother Donald’s willingness to trade the family name for business favors that early in his presidency he had the Secret Service put a tail on him and tap his phone.

Lyndon Johnson’s brother Sam Houston Johnson was such a falling-down-drunk that he spent a whole year of Johnson’s Senate career in a body cast from armpit to heel after breaking his leg in his own dining room.

And Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy became a national embarrassment when he registered as a foreign agent of the Libyan government and received a $220,000 loan during his brother’s White House years.

The latest imbroglio involving Hillary Clinton’s brother Tony Rodham—a Department of Homeland Security watchdog report last week detailed his efforts to press the federal agency for visa approvals while his sister was secretary of state—is proof that when it comes to political embarrassment, we not only all have our mothers, but our brothers and sisters, too.



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[truth_seeker]

Spent much of my youth living in a nondescript town, midway between Nixon's Yorba Linda birthplace, and his Whittier college days.

There was a Nixon's market in Whittier, and a Nixon's restaurant in La Habra, for instance. And Nixon's first law office was also in La Habra.

My family had already left those areas, before Nixon was elected President. They had moved to San Clemente, not knowing he would soon pick that for his West Coast digs.

My father was involved with building a nice new neighborhood. When they learned Nixon was coming to San Clemente, they renamed the neighborhood "Presidential Heights." When Nixon later became disgraced, they changed the name again.

Before Nixon came to San Clemente, there were great places near his house, to park and walk to surfing beaches. Once he got there, they gated them off, and it became difficult to get to some great waves.