Employed Quote by Robert Dallek

“Moreover, Kissinger and Nixon deeply distrusted each other. Kissinger was sometimes contemptuous (behind Nixon's back) of the President. He called Nixon "our drunken friend,"…

— James T. Patterson

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would…

— Mort Sahl

Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious…

— Robert Dallek

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if…

— Harry S Truman

Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could…

— Robert Dallek

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

— Earl Butz

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

— Christopher Hitchens

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

— Harry Shearer

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or…

— Edwin Newman