Tag: Richard Milhous Nixon

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)

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My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don’t think Kennedy should have done it. I don’t think Johnson should have done it, and I don’t think we should have done it.

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My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America’s future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

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My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

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My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn’t showmanship, it isn’t big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

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My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

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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.

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

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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

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Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

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