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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The most virtuous hearts have a touch of hell’s own fire in them.”

— John A. Farrell

“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

“Those on the right can do what those on the left talk about,” Nixon replied.”

— John A. Farrell

“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

“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

“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

“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