“The thought occurs that in each of the Age of Television's three great contests over the Con­stitution, the rogues' gallery has never really changed. Those are proud and pa­triotic Republicans sitting over there.”

“We have been in danger of remembering Nixon as just another crooked office-seeker in the long gray line. He was, however, the first American president who ever harbored despotic ambition”

“Mailer said he wanted to establish something he called 'the Fifth Estate,' essentially an organization to investigate whether the United States was slipping into totalitarianism through a series of carefully manipulated conspiracies. He said it was the best political idea he ever had”

“One could use that 18 1/2-minute buzz on the June 20 babble session with Hank Haldeman as a sound track for a Kenneth Anger movie which would be titled 'Nixon Sinking.' ”

“For the past 48 hours, while the President and his family had been once again resisting resigna­tion, his closest aides were conspir­ing behind his back to force him to resign.”

"Who could have imagined that the Senate Watergate inquest would have ranged as far as the fabled Treasure of the Aztecs?"

“It is no accident that Nixon was from California. He was a master of desecration. And make no mistake: this place has been desecrated.”

While Mr. Ford felt he was finally putting Watergate matters to rest, I am back to seeing my President clear — this time as a horse’s ass.

“His cheeks, colored by a network of ruptured blood vessels, were formed by a coalescence of hanging globules, beneath which the double fold of his chin melted into his neck. And his skull was strung with cords of fat.”

"Millions of people are afraid we have in office a man who might entertain the notion of kicking over the government"