Richard M. Nixon was a man far before his time. If he had not been cheated out of the 1960 election by last-minute chicanery in Illinois and Texas (both engineered by Papa Joe Kennedy, who famously said, “I’m not paying for one damned vote more than I need!”), the the Berlin Wall would never have been raised, the Cuban missile crisis would never have happened, Vietnam would have been avoided altogether, and very likely the North Korean thorn would have been neutralized long ago.
The Russian Communist leaders knew and understood Nixon, in a way they never really understood JFK, who was a loose cannon back then.
I believe the quote was, “Don’t buy another vote. I won’t pay for a landslide.” It was uttered by Joe during the WV RAT primary in 1960 which cooked HHH’s campaign.
As often happens over the course of decades, words and/or events get conflated.
See book “Don’t buy another vote. I won’t pay for a landslide.” ©2003 by Dr. Allen H. Loghry II
ISBN 0-87012-748-9
LOCCN 2006925448
“Richard M. Nixon was a man far before his time.”
Yup. He created the EPA.
History will show that one decision turned China into the world’s leading economy in the 2030s and beyond.