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Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. Abbie Hoffman
Debate 2: Tonight the key question for every patriot is can an ageing Hollywood juvenile actor with a right-wing script defeat Richard Nixon, a professional politician, who currently represents no discernible interest except his own. Gore Vidal, second debate with William F Buckley, cited Best of Enemies 2015
Nixon appealed to what he called the Silent Majority. 1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond, Sky Arts 2018
I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. John Ehrlichman, presidential assistant to Richard Nixon, when Nixon withdrew support for Patrick Gray, director of FBI, without telling him
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work he overcame them. James Reston
December 1941: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States head-first into World War II. Fought not just against Japan but against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Over the course of the War sixteen million Americans would serve in active duty in the armed forces. Eight of them would become US presidents. Presidents at War: A Call to Valor I, History 2019
The US had been at war for two years. Among the sixteen million Americans who served in active duty were eight future American presidents: Nixon, Eisenhower, Ford, Bush, Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Kennedy. New Presidents at War II: Their Finest Hours
In the South Pacific Lt Richard Nixon’s airbase had been bombed for a solid month. ibid.
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Gerald Ford
Now, therefore, I, Gerald R Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these present do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974. Gerald Ford
The young man who asks you to set him one heart-beat from the Presidency of the United States. Adlai Stevenson
The kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, and then mount the stump and make a speech on conservation. Adlai Stevenson
The mission of Apollo 13 to the Moon in the spring of 1970 was rushed forward to take some of the intense political pressure off the Nixon administration, in desperate trouble with its war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Paul Foot, Moonshot Moonshine
Four short years later he [Prescott Bush] found another young man to sponsor in politics: Nixon, who is documented as employing Jack Ruby a year after this photo was taken. Nixon, who hired Hunt, who hired Connally, was created and sponsored from the very beginning by Prescott Bush. JFK II, 2003
It’s an incredible story. Newly elected Nixon was up to his neck in the Vietnam War. He needed a big stunt to reverse his negative image with the American public. Dark Side of the Moon, 2002
He [Reverend Sun Myung Moon] sprang to the aid of Richard Nixon. Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Emperor of the Universe, BBC 2000
President Richard Nixon in particular is paranoid about Lennon whipping up opposition to him. Infamous Assassinations: John Lennon
My God, they’ve embalmed him before he even died. Richard Daley, Chicago Mayor at television studios
Mr President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realise that you have won. Not only won but been re-elected by a tremendous margin. You are the president of all the people of the United States. They is no ‘they’ out there. Nobody trying to destroy you. Elliot Richardson, lawyer
Nixon learned lessons from his narrow defeat. He recognised the new realities. Next time he would sell himself like Kennedy. So would many others. Andrew Marr, JFK: The Making of Modern Politics, BBC 2010
Nixon: The only president ever to resign the office. His speech watched live by 85% of all American households. America: The Story of the US: Millennium, 2010
Once Richard Nixon was elected president and was inaugurated in January 1969, we were targeted, bam, bam, bam, by a very sophisticated, advanced counterintelligence program, at the same time, by very crude and violent police. Green & Siegel, The Weather Underground 2002, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party
What Richard Nixon actually delivered to the country was not peace, law or order, but war, chaos and disorder. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States VII: Johnson, Nixon and Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune, Showtime 2012
70,000,000 litres of chemical weapons of mass destruction were sprayed over the Vietnamese people, their water and their countryside. The most lethal was Agent Orange which defoliated, killed and contaminated everything in its path like a radioactive atomic bomb. To this day survivors suffer related cancers, genetic deformities and permanent environmental damage. Ring of Power, 2008
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard Nixon
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. Richard Nixon
America’s Public Enemy Number One in the United States is drug abuse. Richard Nixon, televised interview
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. Richard Nixon
As a result of what we have done in South Vietnam, not only has the psychology changed there, but also it has had a most beneficial effect in my opinion among other free nation countries who look to South Vietnam as a test. Richard Nixon
As this long and difficult war ends I would like to address a few special words to the American people. Your steadfastness is supporting our insistence of peace with honor had made peace with honor possible. Richard Nixon
But as I leave you I want you to know just how much you’re going to be missing me. You don’t have Nixon to kick around any more. Because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. Richard Nixon, losing governorship of California
Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put a nickel in the toilet. Richard Nixon
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits. Richard Nixon
Don’t go any further into this case, period. Richard Nixon, to Haldeman 1972