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State Funeral
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I imagine the disgrace / resignation from office is why Nixon didn't get one.
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Nixon had come back from death before, so no one was sure that he was really down for the count.
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Originally posted by Burger
{I}f you still have friends in political power, you're getting one. Suffice to say, the presidency and both houses of Congress weren't going to say "nope, not for this one" on Reagan.
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If Clinton had died over the weekend, I am reasonably sure that the federal government would have been shut down for at least a day, but maybe for slightly different reasons.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 06-07-2004 at 01:15 PM..
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