The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fanta...sies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our system of government, in spite of Vietnam, Cambodia, CIA, Watergate, is still the best system of government on earth. And the ...greatest resource of all are the 215 million Americans who still have within us the strength, the character, the intelligence, the experience, the patriotism, the idealism, the compassion, the sense of brotherhood on which we can rely in the future to restore the greatness to our country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as a large segment of liberal political opinion never could accept Nixon as a "legitimate" president, neither can a large seg...ment of conservative political opinion today accept Clinton's legitimacy in the Oval Office.... Nixon's slash-and-burn politics, Red-baiting and smarmy sanctimony earned him the undying enmity of otherwise tolerant liberals long before he turned the crime of Watergate into a fatal political blunder. For Clinton, draft ducking, toking on a marijuana cigarette and a family life that he acknowledges has not been perfect create the same effect: He is unable to establish moral authority with opponents who might otherwise be open to his centrist style and policies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Say...ing we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because t...hey're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibili...ty--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is saying ... it is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top--or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have t...o have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things.... Life is one crisis after another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »