…honestly, I dunno. He crossed my mind for some reason, then I stumbled across an article about him in a tabloid I peruse on occasion. Topper was a strangely out of place rendition of Ohio (CSN&Y); all completely random, all within a space of about 8 hrs -and creepily enough- within days of the 37th anniversary of his resignation (August 9 1974).
If the fucker shows up in my dreams it’s gonna be ugly, I tell you. Ugly.
Now I’m gonna go dig out my copy of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail and see what Thompson used for banishing demons…
Sources report that the hippie was later traded to Khrushchev for a washing machine. |
“”Isn’t it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets? Isn’t this the kind of competition you want?”
-Remarks to Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev during the Kitchen Debate (24 July 1959)
Dancin’ with a loose Yorkie |
“…You don’t have Nixon to kick around any more…”
–Press conference after losing the election for Governor of California, (7 November 1962)
Beer Bong Nixon |
” …people have got to know whether or not their president’s a crook. Well I am not a crook. I’ve earned everything I’ve got.”
-At a press conference in 1973
Above left: Watering the roof, a favorite Sunday pastime.
right: Honoring Native Americans who were really wishing they could still scalp white people.
Let’s look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn, they root ’em out. They don’t let ’em around at all. I don’t know what they do with them. Look at this country. You think the Russians allow dope?”
-Tapes from 1971 as presented in “All the Philosopher King’s Men” by James Warren in Harper’s Magazine (February 2000)
Deciphering Elvis |
“You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana are Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.”
-Statement (26 May 1971) as quoted in Newsweek (27 May 2004)
Nixon hated Rock and Roll. |
“So few of those who engage in espionage — are Negroes. … In fact, very few of them become Communists. If they do, they like, they get into Angela Davis — they’re more the capitalist type. And they throw bombs and this and that. But the Negroes. — have you ever noticed? … Any Negro spies?”
-Nixon, Haldeman, and Ziegler, 4:03 P.M., Oval Office Conversation #537-4; cassette #876 (5 July 1971)
Nixon mined coal just like you. |
“I have the greatest affection for them [Negroes] but I know they’re not going to make it for 500 years. They aren’t. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they’re dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don’t live like a bunch of dogs…”
-Tapes from 1971 as presented in “All the Philosopher King’s Men” by James Warren in Harper’s Magazine (February 2000)
Cringe moment for Sammy |
Yo-yo fail on the stage of the Grand ole’ Opry |
“Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
– Interview with David Frost (19 May 1977)
Often credited with opening Chinese relations, he was still skeptical about Dim Sum. |
“I’m not for women, frankly, in any job. I don’t want any of them around. Thank God we don’t have any in the Cabinet.”
– As quoted in The Rehnquist Choice (2001) by John Dean
Nixon: “The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?…I just want you to think big Henry, for Christsakes.”
-In conversation with Henry Kissinger regarding Vietnam, as quoted in Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. (2002) by Daniel Ellsberg
Preparing to ship failed astronauts to Siberia |
“I may not know much, but I do know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad.”
-Lyndon B. Johnson, when asked why he had not replied to a speech by then-Vice President Nixon. Quoted in Merle Miller, Lyndon, An Oral Biography (1980), p. 542
“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.” -Hunter S Thompson, He Was a Crook, 1 May 1994