If You're Going To Do

For A Guy Who Is Always Banging On About The Masculine Virtues, Nixon Had This Remarkable Proclivity For Very Dainty Gestures.

Music Can Happen With Equal Ease As A Solo Or Collaborative Venture, It Seems To Me.

The Last President We Had Was The Smartest Guy Anyone Could Remember And He Did The Dumbest Thing Anyone Has Ever Seen In The White House So Go Figure.

I Happened Upon A Memoir By A Midlevel White House Staffer, And He Had Been In The Room That [nixon's Last] Night [in Office]. This Guy's Memoir Told Me What Nixon's Last Words Were. And They Were, On August 8, 1974, To The Crew: "have A Merry Christmas, Fellas!" That Was Just So Bizarre.

As A Kid, I Really Did Want To Hang Out With The Grownups, So It Was Hanging Out With The Hippest Grownups In The World. This Was The Nicest Bunch Of People I've Worked With In Show Business, With The Exception Of The People Around 'a Mighty Wind.' It Really Was A Wonderful Eight Years.