Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world beyond San Clemente and his family is still very central to Nixon's being. "I share the concern of many people in both parties and some national commentators regarding the deterioration of the American leadership position in the world," he says. But Nixon for the time being at least avoids direct public criticism of anyone in high office. He will begin to speak out more in the fall. He is planning a few speeches, and he has been invited by many foreign countries to come and visit...
...When he wrote the current book, RN, of which 300,000 copies are now in print, the former President dictated 1.5 million words about events of his political life and his thoughts about them. They were boiled down to about 500,000 words. From the mass of unused material, Nixon is now extracting, polishing and adding to make the new volume, which will be only about one-fifth the size...
...grandfather's face is collecting wrinkles. There is more gray at his temples. He has thickened a little at the waist. But there is energy in his eyes and his movements, a mental vigor that seems untouched by the savage season of Watergate. One concludes that Nixon looks his guest in the eye more directly, more confidently and with less of the familiar lid fluttering that sometimes marred his human encounters years ago in the White House...
...helping Julie with her book on her mother, and David is at work on a biography of his grandfather. It is a world of words at San Clemente for the time being. Nixon relishes having the spare time at last for such things, and for just reading and thinking, contemplating events instead of reacting instantly to them. He has even worked out a Nixon rule of knowledge for Presidents. "Knowing a little about everything won't work. Knowing a great deal about important things is essential...
...country has weighed the tragedy of Richard Nixon. One sometimes wonders if there is not another dimension to that disaster that will some day get more attention-the loss of a man to the world, by his own doing, a man who understood the men, the ingredients, the glory, the brutality, the action and reaction of power as well as anyone else of our time...