Word: nixon
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Hugh Sidey, our Washington contributing editor, estimates that he spent nearly half his career observing and reporting on the former President. "Nixon was most comfortable talking about foreign policy," Sidey recalls. "During the Bush Administration, I did a series of television interviews with the four living ex-Presidents, and, no question, Nixon's knowledge and enthusiasm for these issues was far greater than that of the others. He once told me, 'I have always felt that the country can more or less take care of itself. A President's first job is dealing with peace...
Surely that last sentence deserves to be part of Richard Nixon's epitaph...
...significance of any person in history, no matter how complex, can be captured in one sentence, Clare Booth Luce once told Richard Nixon. "You will be summed up: He went to China," she declared...
...estimation came before Watergate. "Now," Nixon said a few years ago, "historians are more likely to lead with 'He resigned from office.' The jury has already come in, and there's nothing that's going to change it. There's no appeal. Historians will judge it harshly...
Other politicians came and went, but Nixon was always coming back. By sheer endurance, he was the most important figure of the postwar era. Nixon put the country through some of its worst times, leading the red-scare politics of the 1950s, escalating the war in Vietnam in order to end it, trying with all his enormous energy and guile to defeat the legal processes that closed in on him during the Watergate scandal. Yet an outsize energy and determination drove him on to recover and rebuild after every self-created disaster that he faced...