Nixon Stupid Quotes

Can I just vote for the GIF?

"It certainly is a great wall."

haha what I was gonna post^

There's a tiny little Chinese takeout places not too far called Great Wall II. Such an odd successor to the original wall.

the autobiographical In the Arena is a treasure trove of goodies (so are those two books of interviews with Monica Crowley from the nineties). I'd quote from it but that would require checking it out of the library again.

funniest president ever

funniest AND weirdly Shakespearean

"well, if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

the Crowley book has Nixon ruminatin' aloud on the glories of Hegel.

"You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

sounds like nixon needed a break from ILX

hmmm I need something new to read, perhaps its time for a Nixon bio (I need something a little lighter and stuffed with chuckles after finishing "The Unknown Mao" and "The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and The Road to 9/11")

read Nixon at the Movies – excellent geocultural look at the Nixon administration and Hollywood.

fuck it, I may check out In the Arema anyway.

what a comedian

An embarrassment of riches here. I voted for "I would have made a good Pope", based on the vibrant combination of hubris, absurdity and cluelessness, all wrapped up in a tight, neat package of seven words.

Hey, if Ratzinger can become pope...

seven word nixon

If only Dan had played his cards right. He could have been pope *and* presidential candidate this year.

He changed his tone again and said, "Murphy Brown sounds like a man. Is that that Candice Bergen Show?" I answered him, and he continued, "I met her once when she was about sixteen and I went to a party at the Bergens'. Anyway, I cannot believe that a fictional character made it into the Oval Office. The press was wrong to ask Bush about as he was standing there with [Canadian prime minister Brian] Mulroney. `Oh, gee,' I would have said, `I don't follow the show. Next question."

christ, that old cocksucker?!

Nixon thrived on the gossip that swirled around the Clinton's personal life. He pretended that he was uninterested in the salacious rumors but fed off them enthusiastically. Bill's infidelity, Hillary's explosive temper, and their marriage of political convenience were fodder for Nixon's escapist imagination. "I heard," he said, sotto voce, on December 21, that they can't stand each other, that their marriage is a charade and that she planned to divorce him if he lost. Can you believe?" he asked with gleeful inquisitiveness. "He'll never dump her now because she is the tower of strength and intellect around there."

Richard Nixon, of course, is just the opposite: not very intense about issues, utterly without naïveté. He recently offered Clinton some advice on marketing Hillary. "If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent," Nixon told the Times, "it makes the husband look like a wimp." Pat was unavailable for comment.

--"April Already?", Spy magazine, April 1992

I voted for Jews and Marijuana

I also voted for Jews and marijuana. Where would we be without that felicitous combination? Imagine, for example, a world without the Coen brothers.

Nixon: I still think we ought to take the North Vietnamese dikes out now. Will that drown people?
Kissinger: About two hundred thousand people.
Nixon: No, no, no, I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?
Kissinger: That, I think, would just be too much.
Nixon: The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?...I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes.

Jews and Marijuana

lol Harold & Kumar's buddies

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

It's about time we wrapped this up.

Our long national nightmare is almost over.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

dude low turnout!

"This is a great day for France!" --Richard Nixon, while attending Charles De Gaulle's funeral 0

c'mon!

Morbo: Morbo will now introduce tonight's candidates... PUNY HUMAN NUMBER ONE, PUNY HUMAN NUMBER TWO, and Morbo's good friend, Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon's Head: Hello Morbo, how's the family?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.
Richard Nixon's Head: Good man. Nixon's pro-war and pro-family.

the All in the Family review here is wild enough, but then he launches into the Greeks and Romans...

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/02/the-nixon-tapes-richard-nixon-hates-all-in-the-family-1971.html

i v0ted 3 X

Fascinating to actually hear such batshit right-wing lunacy. Cartoons can be dismissed with a lol, and bloggers and even tv pundits are hard to take too seriously. This gives a real sense of 'omfg this is actually how these people think?!'.

that closing theory that hideous women's fashions are gay misogyny = ace

"God, he's handsome, and virile, and this and that..."

As usual Nixon's gushed admiration for strong fascist societies is charming.

EHRLICHMAN: Hot pants.
NIXON: Jesus Christ.

I'd read about this tape before, but hearing it is just... BEYOND.

I remember that AITF episode from when it first aired -- it was certainly the first gay thing I'd seen on TV -- and Dick is just a moron, given his groundless interp that Meathead "goes both ways" and that the fruity friend is gay.

biggest LOL may be Dick's concluding "we're smart."

what happened in pasadena? im intrigued.

Rose Bowl parade! one big cum dump.

hence the swimming pool?

So I decided to pass the WFMU link along:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/03/and-now-your-mo.html

that closing theory that hideous women's fashions are gay misogyny = ace

Richard Nixon, radical feminist!!!??

The WFMU blog post was an insane trip to an unreal Disneyland, thanks for posting it.

wow @Sullivan.

Rchard Camille Paglia Nixon

wd love to have heard Nixon chatting with his daughter Tricia's obviously-a-fag wedding director.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Nixon_with_daughter_Tricia_marriage_1971.jpg

1) "Always remember: others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself."
2) "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes."

Politicians usually don't hit upon phrases like "when sadness comes." And I suspect he wrote that entire address himself; actually, when you watch it, it seems like a lot of it was extemporized.

its weird, those lines read like he's giving lessons he never had the wisdom to learn when they could have helped him.

Totally. I've written this before, but to me it's one of the great mysteries about Nixon: when he said the "And then, you destroy yourself" line, was he aware he had just summed up his entire life and everything that had led him to this one moment? I'm sure he would have realized that after the fact, but I've never been sure if the words were spoken as self-excoriation or if there was a disconnect there.

Disconnect. It's clear from the hundreds of post-Watergate interviews that he only felt bad about the "mess" he put "the country" and his supporters through.

I don't know. To come up with those words, he must have had some specific referent in mind. And if not himself, who? You might be right, but I'd say there's at least a 50/50 chance he momentarily let his guard down (it's back up again for the Frost interviews) and, for a brief few seconds, saw everything very clearly.

Nixon was not a stupid man. Just a bad, crazy one.

good thing we never had a heartless racist in the white house again

oh come on, obama's not entirely heartless

which post-nixon prez was a heartless racist?

Not saying I agree, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOu_zIiihPI

Shouldn't go looking for stuff on the internet. You will find it, it will cost too much, and you will succumb.

http://www.retropolitics.com/1972/Nixon/Nixon1972Shirt.png

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/16/pat-nixon-at-100/

ugh ben stein, so dreadful

who has centennial party plans tomorrow?

"I'll provide the entertainment!"

http://worstprofessorever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/futuramanixon.jpg

looks like the big graveside party was Sunday (the photos suck btw)

http://photos.mercurynews.com/2013/01/06/the-richard-nixon-centennial-birthday-celebration-at-the-richard-nixon-presidential-library-4/

Formal dinner in DC tom'w night! (At the Mayflower, where I stayed in '74 two weeks before the resignation.)

Kissinger, Pat Buchanan AND Ben Stein speaking!

http://nixonfoundation.org/ai1ec_event/richard-nixons-centennial-birthday-gala-2/?instance_id=846

plenty of stupid quotes about him today

from the huffington post:

Richard Nixon endures as the commanding figure of American political life since the end of World War II. His style, achievements, and failures persist nearly two decades after his death. He is the most impressive political figure of the past 60 years.

puke.

People inevitably find genocide, sabotaging protest movements and your rivals' campaigns, and obstruction of justice a little abstract, so leaving behind tapes where he held forth on "traits" of racial, ethnic and religious groups may be Dick's greatest gift to history. Fuck you, scumbag.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/happy-birthday-tricky-dick-85869.html

the gift that never stops giving:

"I don't know why any individual should have a right to have a revolver in his house," Nixon said in a taped conversation with aides. "The kids usually kill themselves with it and so forth." He asked why "can't we go after handguns, period?"

Nixon went on: "I know the rifle association will be against it, the gun makers will be against it." But "people should not have handguns." He laced his comments with obscenities, as was typical.

saw that Our Nixon thing the other night, pretty interesting. the Ray Conniff singers bit was o_0

anticipation!

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/21/last_nixon_tapes_to_be_released_cover_key_period_ap/

happy hunting

http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/complete/chronological_release5v.php

was about to post!

Among the international dignitaries present at Ghana's Declaration of Independence Ceremonies in 1957 were two Americans of very different persuasions, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. King, Prime Minister Nkrumah's personal guest, made an eloquent speech condemning racial violence in the USA's Deep South. Echoing the euphoria of his Ghanaian hosts, Nixon slapped one man on the shoulder and asked him how it felt to be free. "I wouldn't know, Sir," came the memorable reply. "I'm from Alabama."

cold

Reminds me of the misadventures of Samuel Pierce, Reagan's HUD secretary and only black Cabinet member:

On June 18, 1981 during a luncheon for the US Conference of Mayors in Washington DC, President Reagan mistook Pierce as one of the mayors on the dais, with the famous Hello, Mr. Mayor, comment.

haha oh man

lol

More Nixon fun: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/11/secret-archive-offers-fresh-insight-into-nixon-presidency/

this is one of the most amazing things I have ever heard
http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/multimedia/audio/1521-wls-john-records-landecker-make-a-date-with-watergate-a-press-my-conference

Unfortunately this is not exactly true. Nixon called Indians "a slippery, treacherous people" and told Kissinger "the Indians need a mass famine." https://t.co/IhVxLWQ6JW

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) January 12, 2018

this town needs an enema

"It certainly is a great wall."

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, February 25, 2008 3:32 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha what I was gonna post^

― Dr Morbius, Monday, February 25, 2008 3:35 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=4zrU5GHyp4U

it's p amazing/depressing how much faster Nixon went down compared to Trump

Just rewatched Our Nixon last week. There's this running thing where, after every Oval Office address, Nixon calls up Haldeman and they go over which cabinet members, House leadership, party luminaries, etc. have called in with praise and support. They're keeping score. During one of these calls Nixon says, “Rockefeller called--well, the hell with him, but nevertheless.”

faster? it was the sixth year of his presidency...

He resigned over two years after the break-in; Trump's not even been president two years yet.

God, Slow Burn was a fantastic podcast

faster in the sense that Nixon's second term ended faster than Trump's first term will

xp

In the meeting where Nixon authorised the cover-up of Republican involvement in the DNC burglary, he was also informed about dramatic changes in European currencies related to the aftermath of the (unofficial) Bretton Woods collapse. This is how much he cared. pic.twitter.com/UHt2z4difu

— Pavlos Roufos (@PRoufos) May 9, 2024

'Yeah, OK. Fine.' is so good

relatable

Nixon otm.

https://i.imgur.com/F23RIgP.jpg

Man, he’s thinking so hard its twisting around his necktie into a corkscrew

I read the Graff Watergate book earlier this year and there were so many moments where I’m just like “lol at the audacity, lol at this man’s thought process”, Nixon seriously one of the most unintentionally funniest presidents

I know a lot of people think that, and a lot more say it, sir. But the peanut farmer, the community organizer with the funny name, and hell, the marble-mouthed Quaker… you just never know.

— Jimmy Midyette 🇺🇸 (@JimmyMidyette) May 13, 2025

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