"First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control"
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The subtext is a familiar celebrity paradox: privacy doesn’t starve gossip, it feeds it. “Because we were so private and refused to talk about it” is framed as principled restraint, but it’s also an admission that silence creates a vacuum and the vacuum gets filled by whatever story travels fastest. That’s why “very straightforward difference of opinion” lands like an anti-plot: it’s mundane on purpose, an attempt to reclassify a supposed family saga as something closer to normal adulthood.
Context matters here because the Nixon-Eisenhower name is its own media weather system. She’s not just any public figure; she’s adjacent to political mythology, where family unity is treated as evidence of moral fitness. In that environment, a “difference of opinion” becomes a morality play. Her quote tries to downgrade the temperature: less Shakespeare, more kitchen-table realism, with one clear message to the press and the public alike - you made a story because we wouldn’t.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Eisenhower, Julie Nixon. (2026, January 16). First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/first-of-all-we-were-never-not-speaking-its-122676/
Chicago Style
Eisenhower, Julie Nixon. "First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/first-of-all-we-were-never-not-speaking-its-122676/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/first-of-all-we-were-never-not-speaking-its-122676/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.



