Before The Fall: An Inside View Of The Pre-Watergate White HouseWilliam Safire was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon from 1968 to 1973. During that time, as a Washington insider, Safire was able to observe the thirty-seventh president in his entirety: as noble and mean-spirited; as good and bad; as a man desirous of greatness. Rarely has there been a White House memoir more intimate or revealing in its exploration of the great events that took place "before the fall" of Watergate. In this anecdotal history, Nixon and his associates come alive, not as caricatures, but as men with high and low purpose: Henry Kissinger, William Rogers, H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and Arthur Burns struggle not just for power, but for ideals. |
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... MITCHELL 5. LONERS STICK TOGETHER 272 6. NIXON'S HALDEMAN 278 7. LOOMINGS 294 8. A SWEARING - IN 301 V : SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION 1. " US " AGAINST " THEM " 307 2. THE '70 CAMPAIGN BEGINS 316 3. THE WAY TO SAN JOSE 327 4. A GOOD HONEST ...
... MITCHELL 634 2. THE CAMPAIGN THAT NEVER WAS 639 3. BIZARRE INCIDENT 4. CHRISTMAS BOMBS 656 666 5. PEACE WITH HONOR 671 6. THE BEST YEAR EVER 682 EPILOGUE 688 INDEX 694 LIST OF PLATES Following page $6 1. " The Kitchen CONTENTS ix.
... Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst surfaced . Mitchell was reflective of the good and bad in Nixon , and the rise and fall of that oddly romantic , loyal , and benumbed man is chronicled here ; as in every case , the sketch is less of the ...
... to find his way out of the Watergate maze . That was Nixon at his weakest , showing his dependency on Haldeman and Ehrlichman , his disloyalty to Colson , his personal squeamishness in not facing up to John Mitchell himself , 12 PROLOGUE.
... Mitchell himself , his moral blind- spot on the subject of eavesdropping . In trying to prove himself innocent of knowledge of the break - in and cover - up of Watergate , Nixon ultimately proved his own willingness to put image ahead ...
Contents
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5 THE MAN WHO | 52 |
NIXONS THE ONE | 57 |
1 THE MAN AT THE WILSON DESK | 97 |
1 STATE OF THE WORLD | 388 |
2 SECRET NEGOTIATIONS INSIDE AND OUT | 398 |
3 CHINA REPORT | 409 |
4 THE GUNS OF APRIL | 417 |
5 THE ROAD TO MOSCOW | 432 |
6 THE MOSCOW SUMMIT | 440 |
1 NIXON S EHRLICHMAN | 463 |
2 WAYWARD BUS REVISITED | 480 |
2 INTERREGNUM | 107 |
3 NO END RUNS | 112 |
1 HELLO EUROPE | 123 |
2 THE NEW ISOLATIONISTS | 135 |
3 TALE OF TWO BRIDGES | 143 |
4 THE KENNEDY CRITERION | 152 |
5 HENRY THE K | 156 |
6 SILENT MAJORITY | 171 |
7 THE CAMBODIAN DECISION | 181 |
8 THE NIGHT AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL | 202 |
1 THE NEW FEDERALISM | 218 |
2 THE WAYWARD BUS | 232 |
3 DAMNGOVERNMENT | 246 |
4 THE RISE OF JOHN MITCHELL | 263 |
5 LONERS STICK TOGETHER | 272 |
6 NIXONS HALDEMAN | 278 |
7 LOOMINGS | 294 |
8 A SWEARINGIN | 301 |
1 US AGAINST THEM | 307 |
2 THE 70 CAMPAIGN BEGINS | 316 |
3 THE WAY TO SAN JOSE | 327 |
4 A GOOD HONEST APPRAISAL | 335 |
5 THE PRESS IS THE ENEMY | 341 |
6 TO PEKING IN SECRET | 366 |
3 HARDBALL | 486 |
4 THE PRESIDENT FALLS IN LOVE | 497 |
5 THE ECONOMIC SUMMIT | 509 |
6 AD LIB | 529 |
1 THE TWOIDEOLOGY SYSTEM | 542 |
2 NIXON AND THE CATHOLICS | 553 |
3 NIXON AND THE JEWS | 564 |
4 THE WORK ETHIC | 579 |
5 LABOR REWARDS ITS FRIENDS | 584 |
1 THERE IS A THERE THERE | 599 |
PAT NIXON | 606 |
3 BEBE | 613 |
4 HIDEAWAY | 617 |
5 JULIE | 622 |
1 THE FALL OF JOHN MITCHELL | 634 |
2 THE CAMPAIGN THAT NEVER WAS | 639 |
3 BIZARRE INCIDENT | 656 |
4 CHRISTMAS BOMBS | 666 |
5 PEACE WITH HONOR | 671 |
6 THE BEST YEAR EVER | 682 |
EPILOGUE | 688 |
INDEX | 694 |
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Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House William Safire No preview available - 2005 |