May 13, 1971- Nixon elaborates: "You know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. Neither in a public way. You know what happened to the popes? They were layin' the nuns; that's been goin' on for years, centuries. But the Catholic Church went to hell three or four centuries ago. It was homosexual, and it had to be cleaned out. That's what's happened to Britain. It happened earlier to France."

From a new book on the history of drinking by Susan Cheever:

"I knew Nixon was a crook and alcohol certainly impaired him," Susan Cheever said. She revealed that on one night in 1960, "he even got drunk and seriously told his Catholic staffers what a great Pope he could be and how well he could run the Vatican."