NINE OBITUARIES FOR RICHARD NIXON


"Today we remember that with the death of Richard Nixon, a great man has fallen. We have heard that the world has lost a great citizen and America has lost a great statesman. And those of us that knew him have lost a personal friend." "During the final week of Richard Nixon's life, I often imagined how he would have reacted to the tide of concern, respect, admiration, and affection evoked by his last great battle." "I believe that the second half of the twentieth century will be known as the 'Age of Nixon'. Why was he the most durable figure of our time? Not because he gave the most eloquent speeches, but because he always embodied the deepest feelings of the people he led."
Billy Graham Henry Kissinger Bob Dole

 

"President Nixon opened his memoirs with a simple sentence: 'I was born in a house my father built.' Today we can look back at this little house and still imagine a young boy sitting by the window of the attic he shared with his three brothers, looking out to a world he could then himself only imagine."
 

"In October 1974, two months after resigning the presidency, Richard Milhous Nixon suffered blood-clot surgery that went wrong. Doctors told him that he could die at any moment. Nixon's immediate reaction was horror that he would be robbed of the chance to rehabilitate the reputation shattered by Watergate."

 "Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, who was the only President in more than two centuries of American history to resign from office, died last night at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center."
Bill Clinton Michael Beschloss The New York Times

 
 

"The death of Richard Milhous Nixon, the most controversial and paradoxical of all American presidents, occurred 20 years after he became the first American chief executive forced to resign his office under threat of impeachment."
 
 

"Sometimes he was among the best of presidents. Sometimes, too, he was among the very worst. No president in American history managed to combine so many soaring accomplishments with so many sordid defeats as did Richard Milhous Nixon."
 
 

"Richard Nixon is gone now and I am poorer for it. He was the real thing - a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy. He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time."
The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal Hunter S. Thompson