Jimmy Kimmel and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ father have one thing in frequent.
The “Veep” star shared about it Thursday throughout an look on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in which she defined that her father, businessman Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (who was also called William), was “a big civil rights activist and a big proponent of voter protection and First Amendment, of course.”
The elder Louis-Dreyfus, who died in 2016, additionally ran afoul of a president. In his case, President Richard Nixon, she revealed.
“He made it on to Nixon’s enemies list,” she advised Kimmel. “The very famous enemies list. My dad was on it.”
Nixon, who famously resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974, had a listing of main political opponents.
Kimmel requested the actress if it was “terrifying” for her father to be on that checklist.
“It was not,” she mentioned. “It was a badge of honor to him.”
Louis-Dreyfus added that her father “loved it so much” that he saved a framed copy of the checklist that was revealed in the newspaper framed in his workplace. Kimmel pulled a duplicate out from behind his desk to present it to the viewers.
The star was the most recent visitor to seem on Kimmel’s present since a virtually week-long suspension.
Kimmel has lengthy been a thorn in the facet of President Donald Trump, and Louis-Dreyfus has additionally been a vocal critic of him and his administration.