Robert Teeter Quotes
I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
Teeter, Robert. Memorandum on Campaign Strategy. Nov. 1975. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, MI.
In 1964 LBJ’s Civil Rights Bill was stalled in the Senate and was being filibustered by a coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats. Johnson needed the conservative Republican Minority Leader’s support to break the filibuster and allow a vote. Dirksen changed his position and broke the filibuster allowing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to pass.
Richard M. Nixon was, even before the Watergate scandal very disliked as both a politician and a person. However, this was one of the first major public figures who castigated Nixon, the man, in a major public address. Many followed, In this collection there are many more insults to Richard M. Nixon than any other politican.
She was a nondescript minor functionary in a Tea Party Active Southern County, and her hatred of the Black president was hardly noteworthy. What makes this an important quotation is that it was frequently shown to foreigners who really did not understand the great degree of freedom of speech. Here a public official being paid by the government, not only calls for the removal of a sitting president, but also openly asked the army to rebel against their commander in chief. She was not punished, nor even arrested or tried. She was not even dismissed from her elected government job. That was up to the voters in the next election. There likely is no other country in the world where that can happen.
Robert M. Teeter was an American Republican pollster and political campaign strategist.
