What was it like to be in the Nixon White House during Watergate?
It felt like we were under siege. We were getting yelled at a lot. We felt as if there was a ticking clock, the clock of destiny. I had the chance to go back to the White House under Reagan and then Bush, but I’m having too much fun doing what I’m doing now. If George W. Bush asked you for advice on Iraq, what would it be? Raise taxes on very wealthy people – those making over $1-million a year – and take that tax – make it a 10 percent surcharge on what they pay now – and use it to raise military pay and increase the size of the military in Iraq. Then tell the Iraqis we’re leaving in two years. If they haven’t got it worked out by then, forget it. We’re leaving. I think it’s possible to suppress terrorist insurgencies – Israel has done it, Great Britain has done it, Syria did it. But you’ve got to be very, very brutal and I don’t think the United States has the taste for making it that brutal. We are such a kind-hearted, decent society, we will never be brutal enough to suppress the i
