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...decades and who got richer by trading with Iran, Clinton used an absolute power of the office in a way no President had before. U.S. history has seen its share of controversial presidential pardons: Andrew Johnson's of Jefferson Davis fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran-contra scandal--which had a self-serving element, since a trial...
...Clinton personality and phenomenon that seems deeply disturbed. We've had presidents before who were unstable. Some of Lyndon Johnson's staff, including his gifted speechwriter Richard Goodwin, came to believe that at the end, in 1967-68, Johnson became clinically paranoid. Insiders and respectable observers thought Richard Nixon toward the end also became unstable and paranoid...
Hopkins--who left the audience in hysterics with his Richard Nixon, Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson impressions--seemed amused by the tasks set before...
...Every ex-president arouses complicated feelings. Richard Nixon was execrated by millions, lionized by a few. Ronald Reagan rode off into the sunset, but his illness made even those unsympathetic to him a little more understanding. Only Jimmy Carter has lifted his reputation as an ex-president. In fact, he achieved a moral stature out of office that he never quite managed in office...
...have pictures. The king and Mr. President. We're not sure why, though, or what the two men were thinking--particularly about each other. It's a mystery that cries out to be filled in, and that's the task Jonathan Lowy sets himself in Elvis and Nixon (Crown; 333 pages; $22.95), augmenting actual documents and news reports with snappy, invented satirical interludes and a teeming cast of cracked, half-cocked, profoundly unwell supporting characters. Take Max Sharpe, an Ehrlichman understudy whose assignment is to persuade folks in TV land to turn off Vietnam and watch some other show...