Word: nixon
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Moderator Marty Foster, former host of the now-cancelled talk show “Cambridge Inside Out,” opened the panel by referring to the Nixon-Kennedy and Lincoln-Douglas debates...
Most pathetically, Nixon frequently penned what Reeves calls an introvert's "dialogues with himself," long lists of resolutions about what he needed to do to project himself as a person he was not. Only two weeks into his presidency he compiled three pages of self-instruction demanding that he be "Compassionate, Bold, New, Courageous," that he show "Zest for the job" and be seen as "not lonely, but awesome...
...Nixon lied constantly to protect his isolation. He lied to his closest staff members, to his Cabinet, to the nation, to the world. The Nixon staff lied to one another and to the President. Then they wiretapped one another, stole one another's files, examined one another's phone records, all in a hopeless effort to find out the truth under the layers of lies. It was, Reeves writes, "a White House of lies, a house organized for deception...even the insiders themselves could no longer penetrate to reality." Two of the most startling examples of the culture of deception...
...anyone comes off worse in this history than Nixon, it is Kissinger. In Reeves' account, the former National Security Adviser is a grotesque monument to ambition, insecurity and deception. Kissinger whined constantly to Nixon about his own enemies in the Administration, threatened repeatedly to resign unless stroked more thoroughly by the President, and then lied to the outside world about his role in policymaking and gossiped with the press about his boss's many weaknesses...
...some extent, Nixon rebuilt his public image after the disgrace of his resignation. But Reeves takes us back, often minute by minute, into the sewer of the Nixon presidency, and deepens our understanding of just how pathological it really...