| Sam: | Nixon was a strangely tragic character . . . |
| Kris: | Why do you say that? |
| Sam: | He had so many contradictions and didn't even realize it. |
| Tim: | He was no dummy – I think he realized a lot more than the public will ever know. |
| Sam: | Yet there was a social ineptness to him that seemed tragic. |
| Tim: | Well, many of America's leaders are from humble origins . . . . Just like Reagan, Nixon was well-indoctrinated into American mythology. |
| Chris: | Perhaps. Nixon seemed to epitomize the contradictions in inherent in many American presidents. I would describe him as half-gangster, half-idealist, and one-quarter common dude. |
| Kris: | The calculation is incorrect: how can you have over 100%? |
| Chris: | I know it doesn't add up . . . yet when you think about it, what human ambition does? |
