As Vance himself stated in the speech, and as various articles and blog posts have pointed out, it was former President Richard Nixon who first said "the professors are the enemy." Vance put it as ...

Pye Chamberlain: July 1978, Richard Nixon ... passed when he was President. It’s the only structure of consequence in town. In his first post-Watergate speech, Nixon launched an implied ...

For the next eight years, Vice President Richard Nixon executed ... the decision prompted Nixon to withdraw from the event and instead give a commencement speech at Whittier College, where ...