[last lines including archive footage] Warren Burger: Preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States, Richard Nixon: Preserve and protect and defend the constitution of the United States, Warren Burger: So help me God. Richard Nix...
I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the violent reception he received in Chicago in 1966.
David Frost: [Picking up the phone, thinking it's room service] I'll have a cheeseburger. Richard Nixon: [drunk] Mmm. That sounds good. I used to love cheeseburgers, but Dr. Lundgren made me give them up. He switched me to cottage cheese and pineappl...
Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticiza...
Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.
It was accountability that Nixon feared.
Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
Richard Nixon: These men, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, I knew their families, I knew them since they were just kids. But you now, politically the pressure on me to let them go, that became overwhelming. So, I did it. I cut off one arm then I cut the other a...
Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with the disorganization and naïve idealism of McGovern's campaign or with Richard Nixon's conduct. And he believed that not voting enabled him to be more...
I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
David Frost: I'm in this for all I've got.
David Frost: What have I done?
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Richard Nixon: I let them down. I let down my friends, I let down my country, and worst of all I let down our system of government, and the dreams of all those young people that ought to get into government but now they think; 'Oh it's all too corrup...
Richard Nixon: Whenever I have had my doubts I remembered the construction worker in Philadelphia because he came up to me and he said 'Sir I got only one criticism of that Cambodia thing; if you'd gone in earlier you might've captured the gun that k...
Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
