#nixon

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972. ↗

— George McGovern

#believed #could #defeat #defeated #democrat

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#funny #i #lie #night #nixon

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#because #both #instance #liked #lot

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#i #myself #nixon #republican #thought

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