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Stephen Colbert, David Letterman and the Obama Foundation board chairman, Martin Nesbitt, paid winking homage to President Obama’s notorious tan suit at the opening of his presidential library in Chicago on Thursday. nyti.ms/4a8I28z

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I/OAgent
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Wiki: The "Impeachment" Joke: The suit was never a legitimate grounds for impeachment. However, conservative commentator Jeffrey Lord and some legal columnists later satirically or hypothetically posited that the House of Representatives has the power to impeach a president for virtually everything

jaytingle
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How did The New York Times report the tan suit back then? There’s a reason we know about that incident, because The Times didn’t call out the bullshit.