I have written worse things about Nixon, many times, and the record will
show that I kicked him repeatedly long before he went down. I beat him
like a mad dog with mange every time I got a chance, and I am proud of it.
He was scum.
Let there be no mistake in the history books about that. Richard Nixon
was an evil man - evil in every way that only those who believe in the
physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without
ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. Nobody trusted him -
except maybe the Stalinist Chinese, and honest historians will remember
him mainly as a rat who kept scrambling to get back on the ship.
Hunter Stockton Thompson, He Was A Crook,
from "Better Than Sex : Confessions of a Political Junkie", 1994
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