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...direct documentation -- well, says Anatoli Sudoplatov, many of the papers that might substantiate his father's story, including the record of atomic-espionage work in the so-called Enormous File, are missing or have been tampered with or destroyed. So, he says, the elder Sudoplatov's report "is based on oral witnesses . . . reconstructed from memory" of what his father learned from spies he worked with...
From anyone else, that might have served as a public farewell, but the disgraced Nixon spent more than a dozen years in climbing once more out of the abyss and re-creating himself as an elder statesman. He wrote his memoirs in 1978, then eight more books largely devoted to international strategy. He moved to the wealthy suburb of Saddle River, New Jersey (where he stayed until 1990, moving a mile away to Park Ridge), and began giving discreet dinners for movers and shakers. President Reagan called to ask his advice. So did President Bush. In November 1989, he became...
...joined a prosperous Wall Street firm, which thereupon became Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander. But he never really retired from politics. He was just biding his time. He thought Jack Kennedy would be unbeatable in 1964, and Lyndon Johnson soon appeared almost as much so. Nixon played elder statesman, letting Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller fight for the G.O.P. nomination. Nixon stumped loyally for Goldwater, and when that campaign ended in disaster, he became the logical man to reunite the splintered party...
When he was President, Richard Nixon, for good or ill, always sought to take charge -- of his party, his country, the world. In his final book, the elder statesman sums up a lifetime of involvement in foreign affairs by admonishing his successors to do the same. "If the U.S. is to continue to lead in the world," writes Nixon, "it will have to resolve to do so and then take those steps necessary to turn resolution into execution...
TIME's coverage of Watergate put the magazine, for a while, on Nixon's ever- expandable enemies list. But he -- and we -- mellowed during his years in self-imposed exile. As he gradually emerged as an elder statesman of the Republican Party, several of our editors, writers and correspondents were invited to intimate dinners, featuring good beef and vintage red Bordeaux, at Nixon's house in Saddle River, New Jersey, where the host talked sagaciously about domestic politics and foreign affairs...