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Written by a self-described "inside the barricades" White House staffer whom even Nixon's harshest critics always viewed as one of Nixon's "good guys"--a gentle idealist, devoid of malice and full of integrity--With Nixon should be read by all who maintain a fascination, morbid or otherwise, with Richard Nixon and his White House years...
...overall strategy is flawed, that his sense of priorities is unrealistic and that some of his tactics are counterproductive. As he has often done in domestic affairs, he sometimes seems to think that enunciating a great goal is the same as doing something about it. Is Carter simply an idealist, applying Southern Baptist religiosity and New World populism to the complexities of diplomacy? Or is he shrewd, even Machiavellian, bobbing here and weaving there in order to camouflage his pursuit of some well-wrought global goals? Or is he, perhaps, merely inexperienced and naive...
...idealist." Hitler's child did not know his father...
...President, our author continued, described himself as "an idealist, with the heart of a poet." He wrote of his love of wife, family or friends with an un ashamed sentimental fervor that embarrassed some and amused others. Sometimes, the historian wrote, the President substituted a beguiling jargon for a program. The President explained at times that he would carry out liberal and reforming programs along conservative lines of action. He would preach a new morality...
...sense of surprise, which pushes a production past competence to memorability. Still, only a constant straining after what is not there-the laughs that never materialize, the comic peaks which remain plateaus--obscures the very real virtues of what remains; and it was, after all, partly to mock this idealist yearning for the unattainable, as well as its various exponents, that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote Patiencein the first place...