I Was Never Into Candy And Games

When Nixon Died, On My Radio Show I Started Doing Sketches With Three Basic Conceits: One, There's A Place Called Heaven. Two, Nixon Got In. And Three, He's Still Taping.

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.

I Always Used To Sit Next To Mel Blanc When We'd Do The Shows. When You Have Jack Benny On One Side And Mel Blanc On The Other, You're Not Going To Go Far Wrong.

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.

I Think Nixon Says A Lot About Those Times. It Was Possibly Hard, In The '90s And Early 2000s To Understand The Grip Of Fear That Communism Had On The Country In The 1950s And 1960s - A Fear Nixon Rode Like A Endless Great Wave On The Pacific To High Office. I'm Sure, Though There's No Evidence Of It, One Of The Things That Rankled Him Down Deep Was That It Was Called Mccarthyism And Not Nixonism.