Governor Jan Brewer got a lot of attention for her posturing on the tarmac when the President of the United States visited Arizona.
How Nixon-esque.
There's a well-known story about how Richard Nixon did this to Jack Kennedy during the photo opp before the 1960 debates. Reporters couldn't hear his words as Nixon wagged his finger in JFK's face and looked stern, but they snapped away. It was later revealed Tricky Dick was saying something innocuous like "You take care of that beautiful wife and child of yours, you hear?"
Nixon knew the visual takeaway would be that he looked like he was lecturing Kennedy on the evils of communism.
Memo to Jan Brewer: do you really want to borrow a page from Dick Nixon's playbook?
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