Another from the Checkers Speech: “And, incidentally, Pat’s not a quitter. After all, her name was Patricia Ryan and she was born on St. Patrick’s Day, and you know the Irish never quit.”
Thelma Catherine Ryan was born on March 16, 1912. “Pat” was a nickname, she was never known as Patricia.
Did he ever say something to the effect of “I have a way with young people. They trust me.”?
IIRC, didn’t that “respectable” coat come from Elizabeth Arden and cost twice as much as Jackie Kennedy’s much-maligned Paris creations?
ETA: I completely screwed up the coding and can’t figure out how to fix it.
“Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.”
-LBJ
“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 Truman
“Richard Nixon was the most dishonest person I ever met in my entire life.”
-Barry Goldwater
“If you give me a week, I might think of one.”
-Eisenhower, on what accomplishments Nixon had made as VP
The old SOB himself:
“We’re going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family — let people like Pat Moynihan and [special consultant] Leonard Garment and others believe in all that crap. But I don’t believe in it. Work, work — throw 'em off the rolls. That’s the key.”
“I have the greatest affection for them but I know they’re not going to make it for 500 years. They aren’t. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they’re dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don’t live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.”
“The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.”
Ah, we need the line immediately preceding:
"You know it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are
out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.
Nixon discusses a mention of himself on All in the Family, in a conversation about homosexuality and moral values:
NIXON: … CBS … glorifying homosexuality.
EHRLICHMAN: A panel show?
H. R. HALDEMAN: No, it’s a regular show. It’s on every week. It’s usually just done in the guy’s home. It’s usually just that guy, who’s a hard hat.
NIXON: That’s right; he’s a hard hat.
EHRLICHMAN: He always looks like a slob.
NIXON: Looks like Jackie Gleason.
HALDEMAN: He has this hippie son-in-law, and usually the general trend is to downgrade him and upgrade the son-in-law–make the square hard hat out to be bad. But a few weeks ago, they had one in which the guy, the son-in-law, wrote a letter to you, President Nixon, to raise hell about something. And the guy said, “You will not write that letter from my home!” Then said, “I’m going to write President Nixon,” took off all those sloppy clothes, shaved, and went to his desk and got ready to write his letter to President Nixon. And apparently it was a good episode.
EHRLICHMAN: What’s it called?
NIXON: “Archie’s Guys.” Archie is sitting here with his hippie son-in-law, married to the screwball daughter. The son-in-law apparently goes both ways. This guy. He’s obviously queer–wears an ascot–but not offensively so. Very clever. Uses nice language. Shows pictures of his parents. And so Arch goes down to the bar. Sees his best friend, who used to play professional football. Virile, strong, this and that. Then the fairy comes into the bar.
I don’t mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don’t think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.
And later on:
The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time–it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can’t shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.
… He loved a fire, and would often build roaring blaze in the Oval Office fireplace while writing to the many children of America who had signed up to join Uncle Dick’s Secret Swear-Words Club. You see, he was not a complete monster. And many an American child learned the word “kike” by his hand.
–John Hodgman, “More Information Than You Require”
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” - Richard M Nixon.