Title: New perspective
Product review: Reading how the day-to-day crisis management in the Nixon White House happened gave me new perspective on his downfall. I grew up in DC and remember that time. Nixon was vilified and demonized. My lasting image of him is one of a discredited, corrupt, and dishonest opportunist. Reading the transcripts, though, caused me to adjust that view somewhat. I think RN was truly surprised at the attention given to a little burglary in Foggy Bottom.In the same way that Clinton is being called to the carpet for doing things that Kennedy got away with, Nixon was a victim of poor timing. I think that, before 1974, "dirty tricks" were commonplace and pretty much accepted by the players as part of doing business. That changed after Watergate. Relevant to our own times, sexual infidelity was common knowlege but went unreported, until Gary Hart. Today, politicians must be clean, AND true.
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