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Taylor had a strong sense of the power of the media and used it sparingly but daringly. After the Saturday Night Massacre in 1973, Taylor approved an editorial calling for the resignation of President Richard Nixon??almost a year before the president actually did. The Globe was thus the first major newspaper in the country to challenge the legitimacy of Nixon??s actions. In the same decade, the paper also challenged U.S. policy in Vietnam and was the second in the country to call for withdrawal of the troops from that conflict...
...October 1973, he approved an editorial calling for President Richard Nixon??s resignation for office, making the Globe the first major newspaper to do so. This editorial anticipated the event almost a year in advance...
...Kissinger’s first public appearance in Harvard Square since the former professor left over four decades ago to join the Nixon administration. Harvard’s prodigal son is said to have held a grudge against Harvard ever since his former colleagues turned into vocal critics of Nixon??s Vietnam policies...
...While the campus saw some small, scattered protests calling for Nixon??s impeachment, most students watched passively from their rooms as the Watergate drama unfolded...
...occasional appearances from his surreal airplane. After Goldwater’s rise to fame, we see very little of his inner thoughts, which is odd, considering that he is the book’s main character. Instead, we are treated to exquisite explorations of LBJ’s anxieties, Nixon??s cunning political ploys and the sadness of Goldwater’s loyal organizer, Clif White, when he returns from vacation to find his power undercut by Goldwater’s self-appointed “Arizona Mafia.” In a book that is supposed...