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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder. ↗

— Pat Nixon

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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#american history #event #history #misunderstood #more

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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