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Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
- 37th U.S. President
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- "I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet."
- John Dean's The Rehnquist Choice [1]
- "I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional."
- conversation with John Mitchell [2]
- "For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one."
- The only place where you and I disagree ... is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about civilians and I don't give a damn. I don't care.
- "The writers are predominantly Jewish in all … They wrote this show for the purpose of making the hard hat look like a boob."
- Nixon in January 1972 discussing the CBS television show "All in the Family" with chief of staff H. R. Haldeman and Press Secretary Ron Ziegler
- "Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys."
- Nixon on a graphic account of Amb. Arthur Watson's groping stewardesses while drunk on a March 1972 flight to Washington
- "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got"
- Televised Question and Answer session with the press (November 17, 1973)
- "Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."
- Transcript of David Frost-Nixon interview, N.Y. Times, May 20, 1977, at A16
- "And I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do for the people of the United States."
- 1974 State of the Union Address
- "Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war."
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- "I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint—no matter how distasteful to the majority."
- "What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"
- "The country can't stand pat."
- "You see: homosexuality, dope, immorality in general—these are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the communists and the left-wingers are pushing the stuff; they're trying to destroy us."
- "We're going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family—let people like [New York Sen.] Pat Moynihan ... believe in all that crap. But I don’t believe in it. Work, work—throw 'em off the rolls. That's the key ... I have the greatest affection for [blacks], but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like."
- "I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say."
- "The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment." -- James D. St. Clair, Richard Nixon's counsel, arguing before the Supreme Court
- "When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen." -- Richard Nixon as a boy (on the Teapot Dome scandal)
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