Nixon Era Quotes

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”
― Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture

“Agnew was like Nixon's id -- without the burden of much actual knowledge or curiosity or responsibility to the country at large.”
― Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

“It is a rare man or woman who is ever really changed by ascension to high office, or tempered by the solemnity of the oaths they have sworn or by the national duties they have shouldered. And Spiro Agnew was certainly not among that rare breed.”
― Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House