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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... reason , for decades after , I have been urging White House aides , especially speechwriters , to keep little crumpled- up diary notes in the lower right hand drawer of their desks . These moments of drama , poignancy , or humor are the ...
... reason is that hard evidence of lawbreaking by men in power cannot be blinked away when it is forced into public view . When Francis Bacon , Lord Chancellor of England in 1620 , was charged with taking money from parties in suits before ...
... reason for some of the excesses , appears in this work unconsciously as well : " crit- ics " and " detractors " are quoted and " supporters " and " defenders " com- bat them . The controversy that Nixon sought ( labeled " polarization ...
... reason for my candidacy today : it was not by dint of my own calculation or efforts . No man , not if he combined the wisdom of Lincoln with the connivance of Machiavelli , could have maneuvered or manipulated his way back into the ...
... reason not to sponsor Nixon on statewide TV but could have helped those candi- dates in Iowa . That would have been a compromise showing some under- standing of the political life , leaving open the possibility of a warily amicable ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House William Gardner Limited preview - 2017 |
Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House William Safire No preview available - 2005 |