Proof Quote by Ben Bradlee

I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

— Gerald R. Ford

“The elimination of Mr. Richard Nixon leaves intact all the mechanisms and all the false values which permitted the Watergate scandal.”

— Claude Julien

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

— Harry Shearer

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

— Bob Woodward

I'm not convinced that Nixon would have survived in office if he'd burned the tapes, but I do believe he would have served out…

— Thomas Mallon

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters.…

— Monica Crowley

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to…

— George Jung

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

— Golda Meir

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

— Walter Annenberg

Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost, I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I…

— Richard M. Nixon

I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

— Eleanor Roosevelt