#nixon

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#around #bummer #especially #hooked #junkie

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. ↗

— Ron Paul

#benefited #came #century #eisenhower #elected

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#example #himself #nixon #obama #predecessor

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China. ↗

— John Pomfret

#fourteen #his #i #interest #kissinger

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#came #crowd #during #enjoying #first

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#death #democrat #first #going #gonna

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#became #california #campaign #his #i

It was accountability that Nixon feared. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#feared #nixon

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#cheated #got #having #himself #life

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon. ↗

— Charles Colson

#i #my own #nixon #over #own