I Always Used To Sit Next To

The Theater Business Is Very Much About "hey, If You Want Our Big Blockbuster At Christmas Time, You'll Play Our Piece Of Crap In April."

There Were Really Funny Characteristics About This Guy [richard Nixon], Chief Of Which Would Be That He Seemed To Devote About 85 Percent Of His Waking Energy To Suppressing Any Sign Of His Emotional Response To Anything That Was Going On Around Him, And The Other 15 Percent Blurting Out Those Authentic Responses In The Silliest And Most Inopportune Ways. And He Had These Smiles That Would Come At The Most Inappropriate Times - Just Flashes That There Was An Inner Life Screaming To Get Out.

When I Was Growing Up, We Learned Our History Almost As Lives Of The Saints. And It Came As A Shock, "oh, Jefferson Had Slaves?" It Always Comes As A Shock To Us That Elevation To The White House Didn't Somehow Cleanse Them Of All Their Deep Character Flaws.

If Nixon Were A Republican Senator Today, He Would Have Been Primaried Out.

I Couldn't Help But Be Struck That This Guy I Had Thought Was The Embodiment Of Everything Wrong With American Politics, A Lot Of His Domestic Policy Was Mind-numbingly, Head-spinningly To The Left Of Obama's. It Was Under Nixon That The Epa Was Created. It Was Under Nixon That Osha Was Created. Under Nixon That The Clean Air And Clean Water Acts Were Passed.