EXCELLENT ADVICE – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 1:28 P.M. ET:  Monica Crowley, the broadcast commentator and print columnist, worked closely with Richard Nixon after Nixon was driven from office.  From that experience she's developed some sound advice for President Trump, including this statement, our quote of the day:  From the New York Post:   

“I always knew that there was a double standard,” Nixon once said to me. “I just didn’t realize that when it came to me, there’d be a triple standard.” Later, he said, “I should have known that since so many hated me, I couldn’t even sneeze as president without someone ordering an investigation.”

His point was that he should have recognized that, given the grave threat he posed to the establishment and media, he should have been hyper-vigilant and hyper-ethical, leaving no openings anywhere for anyone to leverage against him.

Several years after his resignation, Nixon gave a series of interviews to David Frost, during which he made a profound admission: “I brought myself down. I gave them the sword, and they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I’d been in their position, I’d have done the same thing,” he said.

He later added, “I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones: mistakes of the heart rather than the head . . . But let me say, the man in that top job has got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.”

Trump can enjoy a successful presidency if he heeds the warnings of a former “man in that top job” who learned the hard way the brutal ending in store when you undercut your own presidency — and give your enemies the sword.

COMMENT:  Well said.  Read the whole thing.  It's well worth it.  The dream of the establishment right now is to drive Trump from office and reinforce its own power.  And the establishment often succeeds.

June 3, 2017