One Man Against the World Quotes

“The American people are suckers,” Nixon said. “Gray Middle America—they’re suckers.”
― Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

“We’re not going to lose it. That’s all there is to it,” Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on February 18, as Lam Son 719 became a debacle. “We can’t lose. We can lose an election, but we’re not going to lose this war, Henry.… North Vietnam can never beat South Vietnam. Never.”
― Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

“While the SALT treaty temporarily froze the number of missile launchers each nation could build, it stood silent on the number of warheads. Unleashed, unlimited, the American nuclear warhead stockpile grew sixfold over the next decade. “Not one U.S. program was stopped by SALT,” Kissinger himself told the Verification Panel in 1974. “Indeed, several U.S. programs were accelerated [and] the warhead advantage of the U.S. doubled.” Significant cuts in the nations’ nuclear arsenals came only after the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved.”
― Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

“He started the damn thing!” Nixon said in a taped telephone conversation with his spiritual adviser, the Reverend Billy Graham. “He killed Diem!”
― Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

“The Vietnamese have a saying that you can’t use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant.”
― Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

“After suffering another insomniac night, Nixon went to the Pentagon, where the Joint Chiefs showed him maps detailing where Communist forces occupied Cambodia.”
― Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

“Yeah, it’s a cover-up,” Nixon said. “The cover-up is worse than whatever comes out. It really is—unless somebody is going to jail.”
― Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon