Title: A good read
Review: I disagree with the reviewers who are, apparently, too sophisticated to recognize insight, or else dismiss the book as "Beltway blather." We regular folks are much less fussy. I do not have access to inside information so it's fun to read about the details from someone who does.I part company with Gergen only on the matter of the "fine, upstanding men" (Chapin, Krogh, et al) he describes in the Nixon Watergate White House. He makes them out as victims! He asserts that they never would have gotten into trouble if it had not been for the "atmosphere of intimidation" from the top. Sorry, Mr. Gergen. They went to jail not because of their dirty tricks in the White House but because of perjury. Perhaps, indeed, they thought that this is "the way the game is played" when it came to the dirty tricks. But by the time they were testifying in federal court, the games were over. These were well-educated adults. They most certainly knew what perjury was. No victims here; no sympathy either.
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