Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon '80s tale There were two men in 1980s Manhattan who craved validation — one a past president, one a future presidentWASHINGTON -- They were two men in Manhattan who craved the same thing: validation. The two had been spotted together at the “21” nightclub and Trump was writing Nixon to thank him for forwarding a photo. So it went, the patter of “Dear Donald” and “Dear Mr. President.”Trump, putting his usual self-congratulatory stamp on the exchanges, said shortly after the 2016 election that he didn't know Nixon “but he would write me letters. Only one of the Trump-Nixon letters was widely known about previously — a two-sentence December 1987 note that Nixon writes after his wife saw Trump on Phil Donahue’s talk show. Pat Nixon thought Trump did “great,” Nixon writes.

Source: ABC News September 23, 2020 14:31 UTC