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To: Voltaire who wrote (14330)	11/10/2000 8:15:34 PM
From: CAtechTrader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Bush Mandate: rense.com

To: Voltaire who wrote (14330)	11/10/2000 8:18:20 PM
From: CAtechTrader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

The HONORABLE Legacy of Richard Nixon: Yes Nixon had his flaws no doubt BUT, Gore refuses to accept vote recount Al Gore would not normally pay much heed to the example of Richard Nixon when mulling his next course of action. But yesterday the Vice-President was considering 1960, when Mr Nixon passed up the chance to take legal action to challenge the result of the closest race of the 20th century. John F Kennedy won the popular vote by a margin of just 0.17 of a percentage point but the electoral college went to him by 303-219 after the big blocs of Illinois and Texas fell to him at the last minute. Fraud was suspected, particularly in Illinois, where Richard Daley, the controversial Democratic mayor of Chicago, was alleged to have stuffed ballot boxes with Kennedy votes. Yesterday, Mayor Daley's son William, now chairman of the Gore campaign, was leading the challenge to the Florida vote. Mr Nixon wrote in 1978: "There is no doubt that there was substantial vote fraud in the 1960 election. Texas and Illinois produced the most damaging as well as the most flagrant examples." But ignoring calls from Dwight D Eisenhower, the retiring president, who wanted him to seek an unprecedented presidential recount, Mr Nixon accepted the result and conceded the election to John F Kennedy at 12.45pm on the day after votes were cast. He told a reporter at the time: "Our country cannot afford the agony of a constitutional crisis and I damn well will not be a party to creating one just to become president or anything else." In his book, Mr Nixon explained his thinking: "A presidential recount would require up to half a year, during which time the legitimacy of Kennedy's election would be in question. The effect could be devastating to America's foreign relations. I could not subject the country to such a situation." More than one of Mr Nixon's biographers have suggested that his altruism did not entirely explain his motivation in not challenging the result, as he admitted himself in the book. "And what if I demanded a recount and it turned out that despite the vote fraud Kennedy had still won? Charges of 'sore loser' would follow me through history and preclude any possibility of a further political career." In the event, Mr Nixon did return to politics after eight years in the wilderness and became president in 1968.

To: Voltaire who wrote (14330)	11/10/2000 8:28:41 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 65232

I can only see 2 election scenarios that will work out fine. 1. The manual re-counts in FLA do not change the vote materially. After that either Bush or Gore could win with the overseas ballots. 2. Vote change is material but not enough to offset the overseas ballots that are likely to be in Bush's favor. Bush wins in that scenario. Actually that makes it only one scenario. Both of the above are really the same after I thought about it. The loser would be forced to concede under the above scenarios. Apart from this, I don't see another possibility. BTW--I am getting the feeling Gore is going to pick up a lot of extra votes. That could be why the Republicans are headed to the other states. They might know something about what could be happening in FLA once the counting is finished. That could be a mess.