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Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

I'd have to say that Nixon feels like the public figure who most dominated my life - from the time I went to fourth grade wearing a Nixon-Lodge button in the fall of 1960, through my college years, which overlapped with Kent State, Cambodia, the China trip and all the rest.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

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

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.