If you're any kind of liberal at all -- and as a Wonkette reader, you're the very best kind of liberal, because you're immune to cheap flattery -- you hold a special, very dark place in your heart for Richard Milhous Nixon, the slimiest human being to ever pace around the Oval Office and cry to a portrait of Lincoln at 3 AM. Oh, sure, Reagan and Dubya may have been far worse at actually Presidenting, but Nixon's paranoid self-importance and underhanded sleaziness put the man in a category all his own. He was truly a complex mass of inconsistencies, for whom Hunter S. Thompson's
Who plays Checkers?
True story: as VP in 1954 Nixon was responsible for breaking the ceremonial Senate gavel by pounding it too hard
Worst. <i>West Wing.</i> Episode. Ever.
They were commies ... and commies were Nixon&#039;s greatest bogeymen. He never got over his Cold War paranoia.
Who plays you in the movie version?
So funny he was killing them...
Sock it to me!
And he committed treason and got away with it- helped get him reelected
If he had had his way we would&#039;ve nuked Hanoi
Herbert Hoover LIBEL!!1!!
I voted for McGovern. Previously, I held my nose and voted for HHH. I am sad to hear that people voted for Nixon.