Leonard Garment Quotes

I couldn’t have cared less that Richard Nixon was the political Antichrist of eastern liberalism. He was also an opening to a different life and the possibility of salvation.

My feelings about Mr. Nixon remained the same until his death -- a tangle of familial echoes, affections, and curiosities never satisfied.

The Nixon who was despised by millions of strangers, and who aroused powerful ambivalence in close associates because of his nasty mood swings between grandiosity and pettiness, was not the Nixon I knew. I was exposed mainly to his attractive sides – his intelligence, idealism, and generosity. Only by ‘hearsay,’ mainly tape-recorded, did I ‘see’ the fulminating stranger I was happy not to know.