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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.

And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.

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

I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.

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

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.