Ghouls Quote by Daniel Ellsberg

Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he…

— Harry Shearer

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Richard Nixon was elected president mendaciously promising not victory, but a “secret plan” to bring the war to an “honorable end.” The secret plan…

— Mark Bowden

Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are…

— Noam Chomsky

Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon…

— Noam Chomsky

[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

— Bob Woodward

“President Nixon and Kissinger were joined for the promotion ceremony by CIA director Richard Helms and Defense Secretary Laird; all the men were in…

— Garrett M. Graff

“By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge…

— Tim Kaine

“Although Nixon stepped up military pressure by bombing heavily and greatly expanding South Vietnamese forces, the enemy did not bend. Nor did détente with…

— James T. Patterson