Forty Years Later ...

More HST on Nixon, because this paragraph is great.

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

 

Yeah, HST sure could write, but, in retrospect, wasn't he also a jabbering dupe?

He was wound so tight that he needed narcotics and a loaded gun just to get out of bed.

 

That 1964 election was sure a close one. LBJ should have run "Daisy" 'round the clock.

 

Are you attributing this quote to Harry S Truman? I'm skeptical of its authenticity. Truman died in 1972.

 

Harry S Truman would likely have said much the same thing.
He had no love lost for Nixon and was not shy about saying so.

 

You're not a cool journo if you don't adore HST.

 

Yeah sorry. You're right ..

 

I think this was Lincoln's quote on Nixon.
I saw it on Facebook.

 

You're never cutting-edge cool around here until you worship someone who destroyed himself.

 

I have tremendous respect for both Truman and Nixon. Yes, I'm a bit strange.

 

Nixon and Pat paid Harry and Bess a courtesy call at the library in Independence late in Truman's life. Nixon got on the piano and played "The Missouri Waltz" attempting to please the older man not realizing Truman hated the song.

 

This is a good look back at Nixon, the "last liberal president."

http://time.com/3095963/nixon-still-one/

Also, Nixon was quite skilled at TV recaps.