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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.

As A Kid, I Really Did Want To Hang Out With The Grownups, So It Was Hanging Out With The Hippest Grownups In The World. This Was The Nicest Bunch Of People I've Worked With In Show Business, With The Exception Of The People Around 'a Mighty Wind.' It Really Was A Wonderful Eight Years.

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.

Nixon's Genius Was That He Was Able To Portray Himself As The Toughest Of The Anti-communists, And Yet Run On A Platform That He Had A Plan To End The Vietnam War. And, Of Course, His Plan Was To Prolong It Until His Second Election - But He Didn't Tell Us That Then.

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.