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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?
How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.
I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.
I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.
We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.
Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.
Nixon's shifty eyes and perpetual 5 o'clock shadow made him a natural fit for caricatured villainy.
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.
Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford.
Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
The Beatles and the Stones had Elvis and Hollywood, but when it came to my generation America meant Richard Nixon and Vietnam.
We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
Only Nixon could have gone to China. Anyone else would have been criticised from the Right.
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
Self-destruction is such an interesting thing for a dramatist, and what's particular to Nixon is how human the failings were that led to his downfall.
