Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, cannot constitute "the whole story," especially when the man sits at the troubled center of much of the action and judges himself. Yet that publisher's puff for a book, designated "14374-7 General Nonfiction" in the Grosset & Dunlap catalogue and titled The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, is generally accurate. Richard M. Nixon's personal recollections of his roller-coaster career are a valuable contribution to the history of his times. Only on some highly specific points, including his familiar version of Watergate events, will critics wonder if his book lives up to its classification as nonfiction...
Working for nearly three years over yellow legal pads at his San Clemente estate, Nixon produced 1.5 million words. Even more surprising, he then went willingly, if painfully, through an editing process that slashed those hard-wrought words to fewer than 500,000−a throw-away of presidential verbiage that must make historians blink. Still, the final product is a book of 1,184 pages. And though Nixon had research help from his staff, as well as from writers who prepared drafts of some sections, the result, says Editor in Chief Robert Markell of Grosset & Dunlap, "is very much...
...that the book does not contain any smashing revelations. It is neither chatty nor ponderous. It will satisfy neither readers looking for personal gossip nor scholars seeking profound insights into the forces shaping global politics. Yet it does move easily in short sentences and simple narrative style to convey Nixon's interpretations of history in an unambiguous fashion, full of specific, if incidental, detail...
...former President concedes too that he had misjudged the impact of charges leveled against him by his counsel, John Dean, whom he fired in the spring of 1973. The most serious was Dean's persuasive claim that Nixon had approved hush-money payments to the Watergate burglars in a White House meeting that March 21. "I went off on a tangent by concentrating all our attention and resources on trying to refute Dean. But it no longer made any difference that not all of Dean's testimony was accurate. It only mattered if any of his testimony...
...Carter administration, for all the lip service it has paid to non-proliferation, now finds itself endorsing precisely the same position. The President still objects to the Clinch River project, but the arguments are now phrased in economic terms. Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger '50, who stood beside Nixon when he first announced plans for Clinch River and has since consistently surrounded himself with pro-nuclear staffers from the old Atomic Energy Commission, goes before Congress to speak against Clinch River on the economic terms he believes to be the government's best strategy. The tactic "delights" pro-Clinch...