American Pharaoh Quotes

“In his memoirs, Nixon explains why he decided not to contest the Illinois results. He was concerned that a challenge to the legitimacy of a presidential race would have hurt the nation’s standing in the world, he says. Perhaps more sincere was the other reason he gave: his concern that if he did contest the result “[c]harges of ‘sore loser’ would follow me through history and remove any possibility of a further political career.”
― Adam Cohen, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley–His Battle for Chicago and the Nation