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The Weekend Desk Report

By Steve Rhodes

“Forty years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency and 20 years after he died, history still has not caught up to the real man, believes Richard Duchossois, chairman of Arlington International racetrack,” the Daily Herald reports.
“I just plain liked him,” Duchossois said. “And I thought he was brilliant.”
I wonder which of these infamous Nixon assessments Duchossois finds the brilliantest:
“Most Jews are disloyal . . . The Irish can’t drink . . . The Italians, of course, just don’t have their heads screwed on tight . . . “[Mexican Americans] steal; they’re dishonest . . . [but] they do have a concept of family life. They don’t live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.”


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“I think he got caught up in something he wished he hadn’t,” Duchossois said about Watergate.
Nixon: “Goddamn it, get in and get those files. Blow the safe and get them. The way I want that handled is . . . just to break in. Break in and take it out! You understand? . . . You are to break into the place, rifle the files, and bring them out . . . Just go in and take it! Go in around eight or nine o’clock. And clean it up.”
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“No, history hasn’t been fair,” Duchossois said. “He wasn’t a dishonest man.”
Nixon: “You don’t know how to lie. If you can’t lie, you’ll never go anywhere.”
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Dick Duchossois, you are This Weekend’s Worst Person in Illinois.
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The Beachwood Radio Network
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #18: Harold’s Chicken Shacks Are Wack And So Is The News.
Plus: LaShawn Ford WTF. State Troopers Deployed By Quinn, Emanuel Campaigns. The Real Reasons Walgreens Didn’t Invert. The Week In Juvenile Justice. Race Theorist Abe Lincoln. Cubs Cupboard Wasn’t Bare After All. This Weekend’s Worst Person In Illinois.
* The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #12: Bears Play Pretend Game.
Plus: Javy Time. The White Sox Report. Offseason Kaner.
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The Sound Opinions Weekend Listening Report: “Singer Kelis talks music, cooking and ‘Milkshakes’ and performs songs from her aptly titled album Food. Then, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot review the latest from Austin rock band Spoon, and Greg drops a quarter in the Desert Island Jukebox.”
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The CAN TV Weekend Viewing Report: The 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award.
Writers from across Illinois showcase their poetic talents during this competitive reading event at the Chopin Theater.
Sunday at 9 a.m. on CAN TV21.
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BeachBook
* Why Not Just Close The Crappy School?
* NU Grad Went Into Cardiac Arrest During Job Interview With Intel.
* New Jersey May Shield Drivers From Other States’ Red-Light Tickets.
* How A Bucktown Bro Got Rich Cataloguing Nude Scenes.
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The Weekend Desk Tip Line: Honestly.

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Posted on August 9, 2014