Antipathy 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

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

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

— Harry Shearer

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

— Earl Butz

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

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of…

— Harry Shearer

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

— Gore Vidal

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

— Earl Butz

“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

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry A. Kissinger