Finale Quotes

“Nixon watched it, the usual mixture of feelings stirred in him. He could never quite make up his mind about the man. Reagan had been too smart to let Ford lure him into the cabinet; you had to give him that. But he’d always had it too easy, especially with the goddamned Republican Party in California. Usually so lazy, they’d gone all out for him in ’66 and made it possible for him to do what Richard Nixon, an ex–vice president, hadn’t been able to four years earlier: send Pat Brown packing from Sacramento. (Christ, Brown’s kid Jerry had moved awfully fast! Now the governor at thirty-eight.”
― Thomas Mallon, Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years

“So you’ll never guess who I heard from,” said Kelly. “Who would that be?” “Not ‘whom’?” asked Kelly, her face momentarily clouded by doubt. “No, my dear. It’s a subject, not an object. At least in my question.”
― Thomas Mallon, Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years