“I have the ablest staff that ever served any president in my memory. There’s not a playboy among them. They aren’t sitting around drinking whiskey at eleven o’clock at night. They aren’t walking around with their zippers unbuttoned.”
—LYNDON B. JOHNSON
“I want to be sure he is a ruthless son of a bitch, that he’ll do what he’s told, that every income tax return I want to see, I see. That he’ll go after our enemies, not our friends.”
—RICHARD NIXON, outlining his qualifications for a new IRS administrator