Richard Nixon Quotes
Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
We all have 20-20 hindsight, and sometimes well analyzed decisions turn out badly as the result of unfortunate circumstances.
Elements of the Army lied to the family of the dead soldier and the media, and then tried to cover up the lies. Abazaid is one of the few government high officials who was candid about his agency’s failure.
The public and the educators were outraged and no sooner was the school closed, than immigration had people moving to New York created a need for more high school capacity. La Guardia was one of the few politicians who tended to admit his mistakes, go on and fix them and then do some other “good stuff.” Others argue that he was so popular so he could admit to anything and get away with it. This was perhaps true, but one of the reasons for the great popularity was extreme honesty and candor and a minimum of hypocrisy.
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.
