Accepted Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he…

— Oliver Stone

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

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat…

— George McGovern

Richard Nixon's career certainly ended in failure but someone who won an election with 60 percent of the vote, won 49 out of 50…

— Frank Luntz

The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore…

— Pat Buchanan

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the…

— Conrad Black

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

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide…

— Rick Perlstein

Richard Nixon had a kind of Walter Mitty fantasy life. He was a man with a grandiose thoughts: dreams of not simply being president…

— Robert Dallek

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily,…

— Bob Woodward

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in…

— Thomas Mallon