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Nixon's
motto was: If two wrongs don't make a right,
try three. – Norman Cousins
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He
inherited some good instincts from his Quaker
forebears, but by diligent hard work, he
overcame them. -- James Reston
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He
was like a kamikaze pilot who keeps apologizing
for the attack. – Mary McGrory
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Avoid
all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting
is Richard Nixon. -- Abbie Hoffman (1971)
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He
bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood
and then drops them from a cliff. He'll
blame any person he can put his foot on. -- Martha
Mitchell
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Sir
Richard-the-Chicken-Hearted. -- Hubert H.
Humphrey
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I
may not know much, but I know chicken shit
from chicken salad. – Lyndon B. Johnson
(about a speech by Richard M. Nixon)
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He
is a shifty-eyed goddamn liar...He's one of
the few in the history of this country to
run for high office talking out of both
sides of his mouth at the same time and
lying out of both sides. -- Harry S
Truman (about Richard M. Nixon, 1978)
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Here
is a guy who's had a stake driven through
his heart. I mean, really nailed to the
bottom of the coffin with a wooden stake,
and a silver bullet through the forehead for
good measure--and yet he keeps coming back.
– Ted Koppel (about Richard M. Nixon,
1984)
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I
worship the quicksand he walks in. -- Art
Buchwald
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History
buffs probably noted the reunion at a
Washington party a few weeks ago of three
ex-presidents: Carter, Ford, and Nixon --
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Evil. -- Robert
J. Dole, speech, 1983
