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Indlæser... The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It (2014)af John W. Dean
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HTML:Based on Nixon's overlooked recordings, New York Times bestselling author John W. Dean connects the dots between what we've come to believe about Watergate and what actually happened Watergate forever changed American politics, and in light of the revelations about the NSA's widespread surveillance program, the scandal has taken on new significance. Yet remarkably, four decades after Nixon was forced to resign, no one has told the full story of his involvement in Watergate. In The Nixon Defense, former White House Counsel John W. Dean, one of the last major surviving figures of Watergate, draws on his own transcripts of almost a thousand conversations, a wealth of Nixon's secretly recorded information, and more than 150,000 pages of documents in the National Archives and the Nixon Library to provide the definitive answer to the question: What did President Nixon know and when did he know it? Through narrative and contemporaneous dialogue, Dean connects dots that have never been connected, including revealing how and why the Watergate break-in occurred, what was on the mysterious 18 1/2 minute gap in Nixon's recorded conversations, and more. In what will stand as the most authoritative account of one of America's worst political scandals, The Nixon Defense shows how the disastrous mistakes of Watergate could have been avoided and offers a cautionary tale for our own time. From the Trade Paperback edition.. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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Of course one of the early shivers that traveled my spin was that Nixon had nuclear codes mid-cold war. It’s never a good thing to have this much extinction building power in the hands of a man living so closely to the border of the Land of the Sociopath. The destruction wrought by Nixon has been much slower acting than the weapons invented by Oppenheimer et al, but no less damaging as cynicism fallout continues to pollute America.
Less than fifty years from the worst political corruption in Presidential history, the current administration has been discovered tapping the phones of the Associated Press, using the IRS to harass political enemies, and spying on Congressional committees, even though they are controlled by the same party. The expectations of our political leaders have become so low that as a nation our response has been little more than a yawn. More people trust as a source of their news creators of political humor than reporters of political significance. The noble definitions of liberalism and conservatism have become little more than rotten eggs we hurl at each other.
One of the things I like about Dean’s book is that he does not attempt to connect Nixon to a legacy, but rather simply reports his experience, and what he has learned since in listening to the Nixon tapes. There may be an argument that Dean comes off to clean in the book, but he certainly doesn’t deny his role in the cover-up. Let’s face it, Dick Nixon may have been many things, but entertaining is not one of them, and so from time to time, the book is as dry as Nixon himself.
While The Nixon Defense does not allow you to hide from this dark chapter in our history, it does offer perspective into just how fragile this right of freedom truly is, as well as the opportunity for gratitude that Nixon did not suffocate the liberty we Americans hold so dear. ( )