He is like a good prewar house solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.
Source: On Richard M Nixon's return to presidential politics; in Time, 16 Feb 68
-- Theodore H White, (May 6 1915-1986), US historian, author; He looks at American presidential politics, 1956 through 1980 in America in Search of Itself, 1986.