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Nixon tapes: Ruthless, cynical, profane
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... about the National Security Adviser's meeting with Ivy League college presidents regarding the war in Vietnam: NIXON: "The Ivy League presidents? Why, I'll never let those sons-of-b------ in the White House again. Never, never, never. They're finished. The Ivy League schools are finished ... Henry, I would never have had them in. Don't do that again ... They came out against us when it was tough ... Don't ever go to an Ivy League school again, ever. Never, never, never." Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/16954... Turns out Nixon was a a-hole

More Nixon Tapes Released
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — NBC News: "Richard Nixon's reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today's opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is no exception." ...

Richard Nixon: Still Horrible
Oliver Willis — Man, Bush sucks but this latest round of tapes again puts Tricky Dick in the running for Worst President Ever. On July 1, 1971, Nixon instructs Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman to have someone break into the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.: “I can’t have a high-minded lawyer … I want a son-of-a-b—-. I want someone just as tough as I am. … We’re up against an enemy, a conspiracy that will use any means. We are going to use any means… . Get it done. I want it done. I want the Brookings ...

The “New” Richard Nixon Tapes: A Bad Reputation Deserved
The Moderate Voice — ... Journalists are now going through tapes and the parts that have come out so far (within just a few hours) are revealing. NBC offers these: ...

Ah, Nixon
Taylor Marsh — ... All this was precipitated by more Nixon gems released from the National Archives. The first one below is an oldie, but certainly resounds today. The next two are new, with more over at NBC’s First Read: ...

Nixon Tapes Confirm Sour Personality
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... MSNBC / First Read: Richard Nixon’s reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today’s opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is no exception. Again and again, Nixon comes across as ruthless, cynical and profane in conversations with staff members. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated Entries December 1, 2008 Confronting the Terrorist ...

Not News of the Day
N/A — ... but he could be.  The differences?  Nixon said f*cking a lot. People say f*cking Bush a lot.  That will be all.  Until there is more. Or less.  Thank you. ...

"I can't have a high-minded lawyer ... I want a son-of-a-b----."
Althouse — Newly released Nixon tapes to kick around. blog advertising blog advertising

Let Begones Be Begones [/izzard]
Shakesville — Digby, on the newly released Nixon tapes from November and December of 1972: It's a good thing we decided for the good of the country not to play the blame game and to let bygones be bygones because it resulted in the Republicans completely changing their ways. Dick Cheney, for instance, learned from Nixon's mistakes and completely repudiated Richard Nixon's imperial presidency and profane disrespect and operated with bipartisan good faith and total transparency as a result of the generosity with which Richard Nixon (and ...

The Roots Of Palinism
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Nixon said it best: "The Ivy League presidents? Why, I'll never let those sons-of-bitches in the White House again. Never, never, never. They're finished. The Ivy League schools are finished ... Henry, I would never have had them in. Don't do that again ... They came out against us when it was tough ... Don't ever go to an Ivy League school again, ever. Never, never, never." ...

Nixon
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — MSNBC’s John Rutherford: Richard Nixon’s reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today’s opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is no exception. Indeed. Nice guy, that Nixon. Here’s the kind of thing that one really wants a President of United States involved in: “I can’t have a high-minded lawyer … I want a son-of-a-b—-. I want someone just as tough as I ...

Nixon and Bush Walk into a Bar…
The Moderate Voice — A decade and a half after he died, the ghost of Bad Presidents Past keeps reappearing, rattling his chains to remind us that, as George W. Bush leaves, he did not invent bad behavior in the White House. The latest batch of released Nixon tapes provokes a headline : “Ruthless, Cynical, Profane.” In contrast to the President Present, Nixon was never someone you would want to have a beer with, more like the weird guy who comes into the bar and inspires everyone to move to the other end. With Nixon we are beyond politics, deep into the personal pathology of a man who saw himself ...

The Wit and Wisdom of Richard M. Nixon
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Last December, John Rutherford observed: Richard Nixon’s reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency This dictum was further confirmed with the latest release. First via CNN: Nixon to Bush 41: Find ‘attractive’ women In February of 1973, President Nixon called future president and then-Republican National Committee chairman George H.W. Bush, and recounted a recent visit to the South Carolina state legislature. “I ...