Quotes About Haldeman

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.

Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket.

He spread his hands in a gesture more Gallic than Oriental.

I shouldn't have said 'retreat'; that word wasn't in the book. Retrograde action.

I do not believe that Nixon did order the break-in," Bob Haldeman observed many years later. "Nor that he even knew about it. But I do believe that he caused it.