Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in June through August of '73 which embargoed any further U.S. help to South Vietnam.
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.
During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.
It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.
I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.
Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.