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
philosophy media television
Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.
responsibility government media
They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.
media years force
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
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.
people risen
People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.
enjoy pleasing
You have to enjoy pleasing other people. I really do enjoy pleasing other people.
press
One thing, Ron, old boy. We won't have to have any more press conferences, and we won't even have to tell them that either!
fish men nature promising wasteful
Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.
bring efforts heavens inspires peace sea talk
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
cannot learn shouting stop until
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another #NAME?voices.
ask fellow great majority silent
Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
witty humorous profound
I would have made a good pope.
silly mean political
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
destroy hate unless win
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.