I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nixon was the beginning of people not trusting politics.
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing.
I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'
Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.
When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.