Chris Cillizza
speaker
400 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Apr
Chris Cillizza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He understood the common language that sports provided.
And while he wasn't fluent in it, he could speak enough of it to convince Richard Russell that this was somebody to be trusted.
He kind of got into Russell's good graces not by agreeing with Russell on everything, but by kind of finding common ground with Russell.
And that sports is so often that.
So football is fascinating for Nixon because Nixon in this anyone who, you know, knows him knows that Richard Nixon was not a gifted athlete.
Right.
But
Football was super important to Nixon.
There are quotes from people who were on the team at Whittier who said like, yeah, he was just a tackling dummy, but you know, we would just use him.
We would just tackle him, knock him down, but he would just get up uncomplainingly.
And my gosh, if you needed a more on the nose analogy for Richard Nixon's political career and Richard Nixon's life,
it's that right he's never gonna bowl you over with his natural ability but the thing he is an absolute grinder he can take loads of punishment he's willing to take loads of punishment and he just keeps going i i thought if you need to understand how important football in in his football coach uh was he announces for president at with the whittier football coach
like at his side.
I mean, it's clearly a seminal experience for him, although he's not Gerald Ford.
He's not some big, you know, he's not some big football star.
He's not some good athlete.
But Nixon, to me,
When people say who is the best athlete of the presidents, I always say it's Ford.
It's not even close.
But who is the biggest fan of any of the presidents?
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