“There they are…see no evil, hear no evil and evil.”
–Bob Dole (Upon observing Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon standing together at White House event)
I’m having a hard time picturing him on Laugh In. I’d like to know what he said about the cast, though. He had to have grumbled something.
“What th- ?” – Richard M. Nixon.
Extra points for the reference.
Traditional favorites:
From this page:
“He never left any lumps (when making mashed potatoes),” [his mother, Hannah Nixon], told his biographers. “He used the whipping motion to make them smooth instead of going up and down the way other boys did.” She also said she always called him Richard; he just seemed to be a Richard sort of boy.
The nickname “Tricky Dick” was bestowed on Nixon by Helen Gahagan Douglas, who lost to him in the 1950 election for U.S. Senator from California. During the campaign, the then-future president had attempted to paint his “Communist-leaning” opponent as a “fellow traveler” – not exactly a Red, but definitely “pink right down to her underwear”.
April 30th 1973
Lotta good responses, so far.
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
Richard M. Nixon
On a trip to China, onseeing the Great Wall: “I think you have to conclude that this is a great wall”
At Charles De Gaulle’s funeral: “This is a great day for France.”
“Let me say this about that.”
During the Watergate era, Mad magazine ran a spread comparing Ben Franklin’s sayings in ‘Poor Richard’s Almanac’ and Nixon’s comments on the White House tapes. For example:
Poor Richard: "‘Tis foolish to lay out money in repentance’
Richard Nixon: "So, your feeling is we can’t keep paying blackmail to these guys.’
Poor Richard: “It costeth more to maintain one vice than ten virtues”
Richard Nixon: “It’s going to cost us a million dollars to take care of these jackasses in jail.”
Poor Richard: “Reputations, like mirrors, are easily broken and difficult to mend.”
Richard Nixon: “If this comes out, it kills him. Maybe not legally, but it kills him with the public.”
Etc.
He didn’t actually appear on Laugh-In in the flesh. His appearance saying “Sock it to me” was pre-taped.
“My friend Ollie always wants to take a lot of pictures of me. I’m afraid he’ll catch me picking my nose”
Nixon was not the most charismatic president or even the most honest.
But he was incredibly effective at his job.
He was the root cause of Detente and he got the Chinese talking to the West after many years of the West being ignored.
No mean feat when just the Chinese playing table tennis against a Western country was considered to be a major breakthrough.
But the main thing I’ll always remember Nixon for was his handling of the SECOND Cuban Missile crisis as related by Miles Copeland,ex head of the C.I.A.
The Soviets testing the water sent ships towards Cuba with IMBMs.
Nixon got on the hot line and said …
“Take them out or we’ll take you out”
There was no blockade,no quiet deal afterwards to do a reciprocal missile removal as did Kennedy from Turkey.
The Russians feared and respected Nixon so in an extremely short time after the hot line message the ships turned round and sailed eastwards.
I.,M.O. Carter was the most honest President that you guys have had in recent times but he was a total disaster when negotiating with the Soviets.
Without getting embroiled in any arguments about present day U.S. politics Nixon was ruthless but shrewd.
That does not necessarily mean that if you’re ruthless you’re automatically shrewd,even with the best advice in the world if you 're a dummy then thats not good for the most powerful country in the free world or for the free world.
IMO the enormous fault with American democracy(and I’m Not a liberal)is that you can be as thick as two short planks but if you/re incredibly rich you will still get elected to the most important position on Earth,god help us.
I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Intercontinental Massive Bowel Movements?
Hey dont complain about it,it saved the world from destruction.
Mind you that might have been the Fart threat,something no sane person would treat lightly.
Correction, although Miles Copeland WAS a CIA agent, he was never the head of it.
Pointless bit of trivia having nothing to do with Nixon: Miles Copeland’s son is Stewart Copeland, drummer for the Police. 
Yep you’re right,I’m just glad that I didnt do my usual trick and talk about Stewart Copeland of the C.I.A.something I’ve been guilty of before now 
New quotes from an old favorite (thanks to new tapes being disclosed):
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And this:
A classy, classy man. The American boogeyman.