you have a lot of fun, a lost fun, you had an opportunity to attack me and i think i have given as good as i have taken. in 1962 after losing the race for governor, richard nixon, republican presidential nominee, told the press he was threw with politics. i leave you, think how much you will be missing. you do not have nixon to kick around. but by the mid-60 s nixon was plotting another run for the white house. i met nixon at a cocktail party and i said i want to work for you if you run in 1968 and he invited me to new york and spent three hours talking in his office and called my publisher and said i want to hire this fellow. the longest conversation i had with him was one with buckley in buckley s house in new york when nixon was trying