A Blast from the Past

I got this quote from AMERICAblog (which got it from the subscription NYT) and took the liberty of substituting a few words (in italics):

Inside the White House, the staff is exhausted and the mood is defiant. Republicans are clamoring for a new chief of staff, the West Wing just cut its losses on a deal that would turn over the tapes of Nixon's Oval Office conversations, and President Nixon's approval rating is at a record low.

But senior staff members insist that Mr. Nixon is in good spirits, that calls from his party to inject new blood into the White House make him ever more stubborn to keep the old, and that he has become so inured to outside criticism that he increasingly tunes it out. There is no sense of crisis, they say, even over rebellious Republicans in Congress, because the White House has been in almost constant crisis since June 17, 1972, and Mr. Nixon has never had much regard for Congress anyway.

As always, the second time as farce.