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Richard Nixon.....it helps if a President is a good Poker player

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2seaoat



http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/14681-men-of-action-richard-the-big-bluffer-nixon


Frank Gannon, who conducted 38 hours of interviews with Nixon on video in 1983, asked him, “Do you subscribe to the theory that a great President must be a great poker player?”

“It helps,” Nixon said. “The Russians of course, are chess players. I never understood chess, it’s much more complicated, much more complex. But many of the things you do in poker are very useful in politics, and are very useful in foreign affairs.”

“One of the problems you see in foreign affairs, particularly, especially dealing with great leaders abroad — particularly those who are adversaries — is the almost insatiable tendency of American politicians to put everything on the table, their inability to know when to bluff, when to call, and, above everything else, to be unpredictable.”

“Unpredictably is the greatest asset or weapon that a leader could have of a major country. Unless he’s unpredictable, he’s going to find, he loses a great deal of his power.”

Richard Nixon was one of our great foreign relations Presidents, and it appears that the President has been doing some historical reading.

Markle

Markle

2seaoat wrote:http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/14681-men-of-action-richard-the-big-bluffer-nixon


Frank Gannon, who conducted 38 hours of interviews with Nixon on video in 1983, asked him, “Do you subscribe to the theory that a great President must be a great poker player?”

“It helps,” Nixon said. “The Russians of course, are chess players. I never understood chess, it’s much more complicated, much more complex. But many of the things you do in poker are very useful in politics, and are very useful in foreign affairs.”

“One of the problems you see in foreign affairs, particularly, especially dealing with great leaders abroad — particularly those who are adversaries — is the almost insatiable tendency of American politicians to put everything on the table, their inability to know when to bluff, when to call, and, above everything else, to be unpredictable.”

“Unpredictably is the greatest asset or weapon that a leader could have of a major country. Unless he’s unpredictable, he’s going to find, he loses a great deal of his power.”

Richard Nixon was one of our great foreign relations Presidents, and it appears that the President has been doing some historical reading.
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2seaoat



You must not know how to play poker.

Markle

Markle

2seaoat wrote:You must not know how to play poker.
Never saw the attraction but whatever floats someone's boat.

With President Barack Hussein Obama the BLUFF would be if he launched a massive top secret attack with missiles, our Stealth Bombers launched from stateside, laser guided bombs, landing craft and 40,000 boots on the ground.

THAT would be a bluff. Doing nothing is what the world expects and President Obama is praying Congress will hand him so he can blame them for his leading from behind again.

2seaoat



Boy, you sure changed your story from the last two weeks as he pulled your chain........maybe you would be good at poker.......the bluff is really nothing more than lying......and I think you show potential.

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