“Nixon “didn’t give a damn” about the finer points of domestic policy, said aide Tom Huston. “All he wanted to do was to keep the sharks away.” And so many progressive measures, crafted with the help of his administration, made… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Television cameras should be banned from fund-raisers: donors were “rich and fat and drunk and dumb,” Nixon said. “You want to get on TV… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Nixon was finding enemies everywhere: among liberals, the bureaucracy, on Capitol Hill, and in the press. “We can have peace. We can have prosperity.… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Stevenson and Sparkman were candidates for august offices, Nixon said. They needed to “come before the American people as I have and make a… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“A reporter from St. Louis passed on a tip that the governor was homosexual. Nixon insisted he would never use it. “Even if I… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Of the trials that Eisenhower encountered in politics, McCarthy’s behavior was the most difficult to abide. In his private correspondence, Eisenhower repeatedly conveyed his… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“The most virtuous hearts have a touch of hell’s own fire in them.” — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Those on the right can do what those on the left talk about,” Nixon replied.” — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Yet few came so far, so fast, so alone, as Nixon. Not the governor of California or his aides, nor any member of the… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“I brought out the dark side of Nixon,” Colson recalled, though “you didn’t need to work very hard to bring it out—it was always… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Nixon “didn’t give a damn” about the finer points of domestic policy, said aide Tom Huston. “All he wanted to do was to keep… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“If this country ever falls into the grasp of a totalitarian dictator it is not likely to come through a Communist revolution,” the editorial… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
“Well, “maybe it is,” Chotiner wrote, “but the Republican Party must do something more than point out the evils of the administration’s plan—it must… — John A. Farrell Copy Share Image
