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

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.

I said in a speech out in Peoria that with Jerry in as vice president, the pressures on Nixon to resign would be unbearable. I know that Republicans see 50 House seats flying out the window in 1974.

Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.

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

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

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