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...guys in this book. Everyone mentioned wears an adjective, and wears it, and wears it, until it is worn out. Subtlety is not the problem with Mr. DiMona's style. Perhaps there was so little time to correct the proofs and get the books into the stores that Bob Haldeman just shrugged at these quirks of the writer's fancy and left them in. It was only after the book was set in type that Haldeman began making the necessary final corrections. By then, no doubt, he was under intense pressure to hurry and to keep the changes...
...Ends of Power is a book that should be read, nevertheless, for what it tells of Richard Nixon the man. No one knows Nixon better than Haldeman. He was Nixon's campaign manager as far back as the 1962 California campaign. Even before that, Haldeman had begun to create the extraordinarily successful techniques that would eventually bring Nixon to the White House. Haldeman tailored Nixon's schedule, his staff?even, to some extent, his family?to better market the strange man who was his constant candidate for 20 years. Even in Haldeman's 1962 campaign, dirty tricks were an established...
Four or five times the reader is told that Bob Haldeman is a direct, unvarnished, no-nonsense bastard who always tells it like it is. That is the Haldeman I remember. But time after time, the accounts of Watergate events in his book are couched in the vague terms of the diplomat who is walking on eggs...
Like the Watergate story, Nixon is still mysteries within mysteries to everyone. No one man, not even Haldeman, completely understands him. Although a parade of biographers has begun to place tiles in the mosaic, there are still huge blanks. A less imperfect portrait eventually will be seen, but it will always be less than a whole description, because, as Haldeman says, Nixon is the Man of a Thousand Facets. Each of us was presented with the aspect Nixon instinctively deemed most advantageous at a given time. None of us can be free of Watergate's surprises until the last White...
...example, I was surprised to read in this book that Nixon probably ordered the Fielding-Ellsberg break-in in 1971. Haldeman relates that about two weeks after I walked into jail in 1976, he and Nixon were out at San Clemente, talking about Nixon's memoirs. Nixon was worried about what to write about his part in the Fielding breakin. "Maybe I did order that break-in," Haldeman quotes him as saying. Since Nixon represented to the court during my trial that he had had nothing to do with the genesis of that breakin, his statements to Haldeman are startling...