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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon QUOTES

1 " The American people are suckers,” Nixon said. “Gray Middle America—they’re suckers. "

― Tim Weiner , One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

2 " We’re not going to lose it. That’s all there is to it,” Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on February 18, as Lam Son 719 became a debacle. “We can’t lose. We can lose an election, but we’re not going to lose this war, Henry.… North Vietnam can never beat South Vietnam. Never. "

― Tim Weiner , One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

3 " The Vietnamese have a saying that you can’t use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant. "

― Tim Weiner , One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

4 " Yeah, it’s a cover-up,” Nixon said. “The cover-up is worse than whatever comes out. It really is—unless somebody is going to jail. "

― Tim Weiner , One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

5 " He started the damn thing!” Nixon said in a taped telephone conversation with his spiritual adviser, the Reverend Billy Graham. “He killed Diem! "

― Tim Weiner , One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

6 " After suffering another insomniac night, Nixon went to the Pentagon, where the Joint Chiefs showed him maps detailing where Communist forces occupied Cambodia. "

― Tim Weiner , One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon