> “As you can imagine,” Nixon confided in Rogers, “there’s strong feeling that we just shouldn’t, as [Reagan] said, he saw these, as he said, he saw these—” Nixon stammered, choosing his words carefully—“these, uh, these cannibals on television last night, and he says, ‘Christ, they weren’t even wearing shoes, and here the United States is going to submit its fate to that,’ and so forth and so on.”

Imagine hemming and hawing to pick the most judicious word and then deciding it's "cannibals".

I'm also amazed that the author of this article, who clearly holds no special love for Nixon, "was the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum". Though per Wikipedia, it looks like they brought him in to do a specific job:

> He was appointed when control of the Library was transferred from the Richard Nixon Foundation to the National Archives and Records Administration. His biggest task at the library was to present a more objective and unbiased picture of the Watergate scandal—a task completed in March 2011, when the Library's new Watergate gallery opened and received extensive news coverage. Naftali left the Nixon Library later that year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Naftali