Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994)

Watergate

"Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it."
"Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?"
(Richard M. Nixon)
Watergate

37th US president

Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) was the 37th president of the United States. Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign from office.
Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, California as son of a grocer. In 1934 Nixon graduated from Duke University and entered a law practice in Whittier in 1937.
During Second World War Nixon joined the navy in 1942 and served as aviation ground officer in the Pacific. He left the service in 1946 as a lieutenant commander.
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Richard Nixon on sport

"I think that what football and other sports mean to, and what they contribute to, millions of us who are fans--more than the recreation, more than the enormous spectator sport that it is--is the spirit, a spirit of competition, a spirit of trying to do our very best, a spirit of when we lose of trying to win the next time out, and a spirit, may I say also, of being for our team, all the way, strong for it."

"I have always been for the Senators and, believe me, you have to be a baseball fan to been for the Senators in those days. Of course there were years, and this year is one of those, when you can be for the Senators and have a better than 50-50 chance that they can win, but it was not always that way, I can assure you."
"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team."
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"People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far."

"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue."

"Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it."

"Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?"
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