buggier than a flophouse blanket
I miss Nixon more than you know. I used to work for the guy who was the lead investigator in the Nixon impeachment and he helped me understand what a complete whack-job Nixon was. The latest tapes are out (it's better than Steve Martin coming out with a new comedy album)

Right after his May 13, 1971 tirade about "faggy" Northern California, where "I won't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.", his boys "Bob" Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are there as he goes after
ALL IN THE FAMILY's Archie:

"Archie is sitting here with his hippie son-in-law, married to the screwball daughter. . . . The son-in-law apparently goes both ways."
(what?)
He is "obviously queer. He wears an ascot, and so forth."

"The point that I make is that, goddamn it, I do not think that you glorify on public television homosexuality. You don't glorify it, John, anymore than you glorify, uh, whores."

"I don't want to see this country to go that way. You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates."

"Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. . . . You know what happened to the popes? It's all right that popes were laying the nuns. That's been going on for years, centuries, but when the popes, when the Catholic Church went to hell in, I don't know, three or four centuries ago, it was homosexual. . . . Now, that's what happened to Britain, it happened earlier to France. And let's look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn it, they root them out, they don't let 'em hang around at all. You know what I mean? I don't know what they do with them."

"Dope? Do you think the Russians allow dope? Hell no. Not if they can catch it, they send them up. You see, homosexuality, dope, uh, immorality in general: These are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing it. They're trying to destroy us."

From a great story in the Wash Post.