Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
Wendy Hood: Are you watching this? Paul Hood: What? Wendy Hood: Nixon, dufus, its incredible, he should be shot.
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
James Reston, Jr.: You have to set up that he has an anti-democratic personality. There's a reason they call him Tricky Dick.
Caroline Cushing: Well, I've never been to Vienna. David Frost: Oh. Well, you'd like it. It's like Paris without the French.
Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled b...
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.
It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon ...
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Susan Jones: Richard, why did we come here? Richard: What d'you mean why? I thought you would like it. Susan Jones: Really: Why are we here? Richard: To forget everything. To be alone. Susan Jones: Alone.
We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
The air is the only place free from prejudice.
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
Lost Time is never found again.
My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.
It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
