"And Strauss said, 'You know, handling this thing is kind of like making love to a gorilla.' 'Oh, yeah, how's that?' 'Well, you can't stop until the gorilla gets off.'"
George H. W. Bush, being interviewed by Cokie Roberts on NPR, was speaking about his time as leader of the Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal. Richard Strauss, then the head of the Democratic National Committee called to offer sarcastic sympathy to Bush, who was in the middle of drafting a letter urging President Nixon to resign.
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