There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidates spoke from separate television studios: "It was as if, separated by comments from his adversary, Richard Nixon was more at ease and could speak directly to the nation that lay between them.

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid

Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.