College OTR: President Richard Nixon Hated the Ivy League, Secretly Planned Its Destruction

President Richard Nixon Hated the Ivy League, Secretly Planned Its Destruction

Posted by The Ivy League 12/09/2008 4:09 PM
Category: News

Last week, the Nixon Library released over 198 hours of President Richard Nixon ranting and raving about--more or less--everything.

From the press to the Ivy League, Old Dick Nixon hated it all, and he wasn’t afraid to let everyone within an earshot know it—whether they cared to listen or not.

Thankfully, the mad ramblings of this presidential looney were preserved for future generations to enjoy and mull over at their discretion.

Speaking to then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Nixon declared:

The Ivy League presidents? Why I'll never let those sons of bitches in the White House again. Never, never, never. They're finished. The Ivy League schools are finished... Henry, I would never have had them in. Don't do that again... They came out against us when it was tough... Don't ever go to an Ivy League school again, ever. Never, never, never.

Dick, I’m hurt. How could you say these hurtful things?

Then again, this coming from the only U.S. president to ever resign (Watergate, anyone?) doesn’t count for much.

The Ivy League wins again.

+ 3 comments

Anonymous says,

I can't say I'm surprised Nixon had some evil plot Posted 12/09/2008 5:43 PMReply

Anonymous says,

Way to refer to a former president as looney, though you can say nixon was unstable at times, he created the EPA, he did end the draft, and opened up red china to trade with the west. Posted 12/09/2008 10:26 PMReply

Anonymous says,

this comes as no suprise at all. It is well known that Republicans are against higher education. karl Rove said it best when he said the more educated on is, the more likely they are to vote democrat. Any coincidence that the highest educated states are blue states and the states with the lowest levels of education are red Posted 11/23/2009 01:58 AMReply