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

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

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.
 

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