Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REMEMBER those hot summer nights of six or seven years ago, lying on the floor of my family room, staring up at the near-mythic figure of Richard Nixon on the television screen. I remember cursing the image, and throwing pillows, coke cans, whatever was handy at it. I recall being filled with wonder at the man who could seemingly do anything and justify it to himself and then have the nerve to try to justify it to me. Who can forget the perspiring Nixon fumblingly pointing to the map of Indochina, identifying the Parrot's Beak for the Silent...
...Thursday, his last full day as President, Nixon gave some advice to Gerald Ford: "I said that the only man who would be absolutely indispensable to him was Henry Kissinger. If he were to leave after I resigned, I said, our foreign policy would soon be in disarray throughout the world...
...prepared to write his resignation speech, Nixon said to his aide, General Alexander Haig: "Well, I screwed it up real good, real good, didn't I?" Nixon also told Haig that there would be no plea bargaining with the Watergate special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski: "I would not be coaxed out of office by any special deals, or cajoled into resigning in exchange for leniency. I was not leaving from fear, and I would take my chances. 'Some of the best writing in history has been done from prison,' I said. 'Think of Lenin and Gandhi...
...book covers other matters, of course, and according to some of the few people who have read it, often at tedious length. Memoirs starts with the sentence, "I was born in the house my father built," and devotes nearly a third of its pages to Nixon's years before he achieved the presidency in 1968. Roughly another third concentrates on foreign policy, while a final third covers the Watergate scandal. The best parts apparently deal with Nixon's historic overture to China, containing some highly personal assessments of Chairman Mao and Chou Enlai. Nixon, claims Editor Markell...
Grosset & Dunlap has scheduled a first press run of 200,000 copies and claims that if all sell out, the company will make a profit of about $1 million. The book is priced at $19.95, and there are also special editions. One, at $50, includes Nixon's signature and a slipcase cover. For a select group of 2,500 Nixon loyalists, who have been solicited by mail, there is a $250 leather-bound autographed edition...