He turned me down. When I went to Indiana University I sent him the same letter and he invited me to come for an interview. But his domestic policy was much better than I originally thought. So the book gives him credit for a surprisingly liberal domestic policy, castigates most of his foreign policy, and I say he should have been impeached because he did obstruct justice. Dr. Hoff recalled that meetings with the former president were memorable.
All presidents are about two inches shorter than they say they are.
I walked in prepared to meet the ugliest man in the world, because of all the caricatures of him. But he was a perfectly normal looking, tan, almost diminutive, old grandfather in very good shape, even though he reportedly did not pay attention to diet. If I asked him something he didn't agree with, he sort of shook his head, otherwise he was almost immobile. Nixon was extremely smart. He didn't work from notes and he remembered meetings in such detail it was almost scary.