coffee_riot

-Found on MSNBC at The Best of the Nixon Years

Highlights:

"Can we tell them 'no?' When I talked to the president, he was loaded."
-Henry Kissinger to his aide in October 1973 when British Prime Minister Edward Heath's office tried to set up a telephone call with Nixon about the Arab-Israeli war

"I want to be sure he is a ruthless son of a bitch, that he will do what he's told, that every income tax return I want to see I see, that he will go after our enemies and not go after our friends."
-Nixon describing his ideal candidate for IRS commissioner in 1971

"I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco."
-Nixon in May 1971 declaring the Northern Californian city "is the most faggy god----ed thing you could ever imagine"

"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists."
-Nixon to H. R. (Bob) Haldeman in May 1971

"Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys."
-Nixon on a graphic account of Amb. Arthur Watson's groping stewardesses while drunk on a March 1972 flight to Washington