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ET: It undid him. I mean, he told them, and I think truthfully, that he didn’t want to wake up that morning. When he fired them, he summoned them to Camp David, to the mountaintop, so to speak, to tell them that he’s firing his two top aides, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, and he tells both of them, he said I didn’t, I was praying that I would not wake up this morning, very melodramatic, but I think actually truthful. Nixon did not like confrontation, for one thing. He had other people do the confrontation for him. And also, he was a very sensitive guy. Like he put on this mask of being the brusque, tough guy, but if you listen to those tapes, there’s a lot of play acting. This is one thing that really got to me. Nixon can sound awful on those tapes. He does sound awful. He swears. He carries on. But some of it is just posturing. It’s this kind of male macho thing that bit his generation, males in the 1950s, 1960s, who have to show how tough they are by swearing. I don’t just mean Nixon. I worked for the Washington Post company. A lot of swearing there, too.

Krieger, Silke and Rolf Trauzettel eds. Confucianism and the Modernization of China . Mainz: V. Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1991. Especially Tu Wei-ming, "A Confucian Perspective on the Rise of Industrial East Asia."

But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. —John Irving, The World According to Garp (1978)

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ET: It undid him. I mean, he told them, and I think truthfully, that he didn’t want to wake up that morning. When he fired them, he summoned them to Camp David, to the mountaintop, so to speak, to tell them that he’s firing his two top aides, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, and he tells both of them, he said I didn’t, I was praying that I would not wake up this morning, very melodramatic, but I think actually truthful. Nixon did not like confrontation, for one thing. He had other people do the confrontation for him. And also, he was a very sensitive guy. Like he put on this mask of being the brusque, tough guy, but if you listen to those tapes, there’s a lot of play acting. This is one thing that really got to me. Nixon can sound awful on those tapes. He does sound awful. He swears. He carries on. But some of it is just posturing. It’s this kind of male macho thing that bit his generation, males in the 1950s, 1960s, who have to show how tough they are by swearing. I don’t just mean Nixon. I worked for the Washington Post company. A lot of swearing there, too.

Krieger, Silke and Rolf Trauzettel eds. Confucianism and the Modernization of China . Mainz: V. Hase & Koehler Verlag, 1991. Especially Tu Wei-ming, "A Confucian Perspective on the Rise of Industrial East Asia."

But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. —John Irving, The World According to Garp (1978)

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