In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any oth...er woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Frédégonde; while Marie de' Medici, whose every action was prejudicial to France, has escaped the disgrace that should cover her name.... Catherine de' Medici ... saved the throne of France, she maintained [the] Royal authority under circumstances to which more than one great prince would have succumbed. Face to face with such leaders of the factions and ambitions of the houses of Guise and of Bourbon as the two Cardinals de Lorraine and the two "Balafrès," the two Princes de Condé, Queen Jeanne d'Albret, Henri IV, the Connétable de Montmorency, Calvin, the Colignys and Théodore de Bèze, she was forced to put forth the rarest fine qualities, the most essential gifts of statesmanship, under the fire of the Calvinist press.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Pilletti: This girl is a college graduate. Catherine: They're the worst. College girls are one step from the street, I t...ell you.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 »
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 »
But now Nixon has come along and everything I've worked for is ruined. There's a story in the paper every day about him slashing a...nother one of my Great Society programs. I can just see him waking up in the morning, making that victory sign of his and deciding which program to kill. It's a terrible thing for me to sit by and watch someone else starve my Great Society to death. She's getting thinner and thinner and uglier and uglier all the time; now her bones are beginning to stick out and her wrinkles are beginning to show. Soon she'll be so ugly that the American people will refuse to look at her; they'll stick her in a closet to hide her away and there she'll die. And when she dies, I, too, will die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of t...he revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »