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Quotes About Richard Nixon

The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.
~ Pat Buchanan
college in Orange County, an hour away by car. It was the birthplace of the war criminal Richard Nixon, as well as the home of John Wayne, a place so ferociously patriotic I thought Agent Orange might have been manufactured there or at least named in its honor.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
He now read that in November 1968 Richard Nixon as president-elect had taken two floors at the Pierre as temporary headquarters for himself and his staff. The hotel was Nixon's favorite in New York, and he occupied the penthouse suite on the thirty-ninth floor.
~ Unknown
Richard Nixon made a toast to me as a future Prime Minister of Canada when I was 4 months old, sitting as a centerpiece in the middle of a table as my father had plonked me down there. It was more about politeness than any great vision.
~ Justin Trudeau
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
~ Wavy Gravy
The United States and the Soviet Union are different. . . . America's new president, Richard Nixon, is a longtime rightist, a leader of the anti-communists there. I like to deal with rightists. They say what they really think—not like the leftists, who say one thing and mean another.72
~ John Lewis Gaddis
We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.
~ Jill Stein
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
~ Dexter Scott King
I suspect, for example, that the dishonor that now shrouds Richard Nixon results not from the fact that he lied but that on television he looked like a liar. Which, if true, should bring no comfort to anyone, not even veteran Nixon-haters. For the alternative possibilities are that one may look like a liar but be telling the truth; or even worse, look like a truth-teller but in fact be lying. As
~ Neil Postman
Repeated psychology experiments have shown that fear makes us more conservative in our political beliefs, and Richard Nixon seized upon the fears in 1968 when he ran for president with coded dog whistles playing on white apprehensions of black unrest.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof