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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

— Tony Campolo

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.

— Tiny Tim

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

— Archibald Cox

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

— M. Stanton Evans

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

— George Smathers

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

— Rick Perlstein

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

— Bill Ayers

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

— Harry S Truman

Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

— Stewart Udall

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

— Bob Woodward

✗Opposing Perspectives

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.

— Richard Ben-Veniste