Richard M. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixonwas the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth9 January 1913
CountryUnited States of America
reading exercise television-watching
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.
tides middle vocation
Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream -- if it is intended that you stay there.
together-again presidential together
Bring us together again.
presidential majority silent
The great silent majority.
war media people
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.
war wish done
Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.
mean long community
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.
unique fleeting shapes
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.
jobs thank-god want
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.
law issues long
As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.
honesty trying may
Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.
thinking moved-on politics
I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.
friendship soul speak
Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.
broken junkyard treaties
History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.