A. J. P. Taylor on Richard Nixon

“He accepted the realities of the world and would have gone down as a great President if it had not been for the trivial scandal of the Watergate.”

“[Richard Nixon has] always had the gift, as he showed in the Hiss affair, of seeing the simple truth where others saw only complications. And he has always been ready to learn from experience.”

“The U.S. have a damned good President or had until recently... Nixon has done things that were beyond the much praised John Kennedy and certainly beyond the late Lyndon B. Johnson. Nixon has ended the Cold War.”