The Nixon Legacy
RALPH ABERNATHY ON NIXON:
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."
"In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent..."
JOHN CONNALLY, SECRETARY OF TREASURY UNDER NIXON, IN AN EARLY 70S SPEECH
And people worried about Clinton having a penis? "Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. I would have made a good pope."
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."
ADLAI STEVENSON
"Solutions are not the answer."
NIXON
CLIVE JAMES ON GERALD FORD:
"In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.
This photo of LESTER MADDOX (right) has nothing really to do with Nixon except it's a photo of two more horses' asses.
According to an article published in the New York Times by Adam Clymer (8/27/00):
WASHINGTON: President Richard M. Nixon medicated himself with a mood-altering prescription drug in the White House and consulted a psychotherapist who considered the president "neurotic," according to a biography to be published Monday [8/28/00].
Moreover, concern about Nixon's mental state in 1974 led Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger to order all military units not to react to orders from "the White House" unless they were cleared with him or the secretary of state, Anthony Summers writes in The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon.
Schlesinger confirmed the account in an interview Friday [8/25/00] and said the book's description of events was the most complete and most accurate account of his actions, which had been reported in more general terms earlier.
"I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes."
"When the President does it, that means it is not illegal."
NIXON
"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government, too."
NIXON
"When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one."
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
POSTSCRIPT
"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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