
The Final Days
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Holter Graham
The Final Days is the number-one New York Times best-selling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward portray the taut, post-Watergate White House as Nixon, his family, his staff, and many members of Congress strained desperately to prevent his inevitable resignation. This brilliant book reveals the ordeal of Nixon's fall from office - one of the gravest crises in presidential history.
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all the president's men part 2
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As unforgivable as Nixon's conduct was, I was struck by what an unlikely sequence of events - the arrest of the watergate conspirators, E. Howard Hunt's push for cash and clemency, Dean's cooperation with investigators and the exposure of the taping system - was needed to bring Nixon down. It's very easy for me to imagine Nixon having skated by if all these pieces hadn't come together in exactly the worst way for him.
The book also has some good lessons for lawyers with clients that are hiding things from them. Nixon wouldn't talk to his own lawyers, and he wouldn't let them listen to the tapes. I'm sure these were "red flags" but then again any lawyer would expect that the rules of the game would be different if your client is the president.
I'd be curious to know what (if any) parts of the book have been refuted by more recent evidence. As with any Woodward/Bernstein project, the book feels very meticulously put together.
I'd also be curious to know if there are scholars who would still argue on separation of powers grounds that Nixon would have been within his rights to burn the tapes, or not produce them. It would be the contrarian view, of course, but its not totally crazy. Or maybe it is crazy. I'm not sure.
It gave me a lot to think about, and I'm grateful to Woodward and Bernstein for the many enjoyable hours of listening.
Outstanding
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But it wasn't really an escape. The parallels between President Richard Nixon and our Current Occupant are amazing: their arrogance, disregard for the rule of law, and certainty that lies could be covered up and not discovered. What I take away is sadness that there was once a time where even a bad president would, in the end, succumb to truth, justice and constitutional requirements. I fear that is no longer the case.
A book for our time.
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50 Years
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Watergate and Beyond...
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Tremendously good
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Different Look
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Gripping overview of Nixon’s Last Year
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The only improvement I could imagine to this account, might be another editing pass that would make it a bit more sprightly in pacing and prose, maybe with a little more political history context sprinkled across it. Moments here actually seem gruelling, though it was plenty worth it.
Good details, but feels like slo-mo asphyxiation
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Fantastic!
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