Richard Nixon Quotes
Don’t worry about that. He’ll be a loyalist right after the first fight.
Nixon had just hired Ray Price as his main speechwriter. Buchanan was worried because Price had been a “Rockefeller Republican” at the liberal wing of the party and Price had even written an editorial endorsing Lyndon Johnson. Would he be loyal to Nixon? Nixon’s read of Price was correct. This illustrates the fact that many political relationships are personal and others ideological. Personal loyalties are easier to change than ideological ones.
Richard M. Nixon, 1913-1994, 37th President of the United States (Republican, CA), Statement to Presidential Assistant Pat Buchanan
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal.
