I'd love a sauce for Nixon started the idea.

but you can bet that Nixon gave Trump a few tips about how the swamp can mess with you. It certainly messed with him.

Nixon was pretty comfortable with the swamp.

He gave the dairy industry $100 million dollars is subsidies after milk lobbyists contributed $2 million dollars to him. The hid the donation by breaking it up among hundreds of PACs. One of the PACs was called Americans United for Honesty in Government

The head of the American Milk Producers and his top Lobbyist were convicted of bribery https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/01/archives/exhead-of-milk-coop-pleads-guilty-of-plot-to-bribe-connally.html

The former head of the nation's largest milk cooperative pleaded guilty today to a charge that he conspired to bribe former Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally, who was indicted Monday on a charge of accepting $10,000 in illegal payments.

The dairy official, Harold S. Nelson, former general manager of Associated Milk Producers, Inc., was the third principal in the case to be charged. Jake Jacobsen, a Texas lawyer who represented the co‐op, was indicted Monday along with Mr. Connally, and was charged with making the alleged payments.

These two guys were convicted of bribing John Connally, but Connally got acquitted. Connally called Billy Graham and Jackie Kennedy as character witnesses.
Associated Milk Producers, Inc itself plead guilty to six crimes.

The Nixon Tapes capture that President Nixon was well aware of this scheme and that it could cost $100 million dollars. On the tape John Ehrlichman, the president's counsel, said,

'Well, we better get ourselves some milk before the price goes up. Let's get it while it's still cheap.'"

In the smoking gun tape, John Dean tells Nixon the Watergate coverup is going to be expensive. He said, I picked a number I thought would scare him.

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/you-could-get-a-million-dollars

President Nixon: How much money do you need?

Dean: I would say these people are going to cost a million dollars over the next two years.

Short pause.

President Nixon: We could get that.

Dean: Mm-hmm.

President Nixon: If you—on the money, if you need the money, I mean, you could get the money fairly easily.

Dean: Well, I think that we’re--

President Nixon: What I meant is, you could get a million dollars. And you could get it in cash. I know where it could be gotten.