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“A President that... seemed so inordinately pure that people were waiting for a way to take the luster off. New York Times columnist William Safire lead the charge. Safire was a talented writer and clever analyst that had served Nixon as a publicist and speech writer for twenty-five years before turning to journalism. In column after column he set out to dilute the seriousness of Nixon's crimes by inflating one-day Washington flaps into 'scandals' that he artfully made smell vaguely of Watergate. Often by attaching a "-gate" suffix. Unlike many columnists who ranged widely over topics, Safire was like a dog with a bone when he ripped into a story that might damage Democrats.”
― Jonathan Alter

“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
― Alexander Graham Bell