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		"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings." - Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter, ' 1688

	President Nixon: Alone in the White House
	by Richard Reeves, Richard Reeves

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Format: Hardcover, 704 pages

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 0684802317

Release Date: Jan 2, 1993

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(Based on 2 reviews.)

From The Publisher
Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president. In President Nixon, Richard Reeves has used thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes -- including Nixon's tortured memos to himself and unpublished sections of H. R. Haldeman's diaries -- to offer a nuanced and surprising portrait of the brilliant and contradictory man alone in the White House.

President Nixon is a startling narrative of a desperately introverted man who dreamed of becoming the architect of his times. Late at night, he sat upstairs in the White House writing notes to himself on his yellow pads, struggling to define himself and his goals: "Compassionate, Bold, New, Courageous ... Zest for the job (not lonely but awesome). Goals -- reorganized govt ... Each day a chance to do something memorable for someone. Need to be good to do good ... Need for joy, serenity, confidence, inspiration."

But downstairs he was building a house of deception. He could trust no one because in his isolation he thought other people were like him. He governed by secret orders and false records, memorizing scripts for public appearances and even for one-on-one meetings with his own staff and cabinet. His principal assistants, Haldeman and Henry Kissinger, spied on him as he spied on them, while cabinet members, generals, and admirals spied on all of them -- rifling briefcases and desks, tapping each other's phones in a house where no one knew what was true anymore.

Nixon's first aim was to restore order in an America at war with itself over Vietnam. But in fact he prolonged the fighting there, lying systematically about what was happening both in the field and in the peace negotiations. He startled the world by going to communist China and seeking detente with the Soviet Union -- and then secretly persuaded Mao and Brezhnev to lie for him to protect petty White House secrets. Still, he was a man of vision, imagining a new world order, trying to stall the deadly race war he believed was inevitable between the West, including Russia, and Asia, led by China and Japan. At home, he promised welfare reform, revenue sharing, drug programs, and environmental protection, and he presided, reluctantly, over the desegregation of public schools -- all the while declaring that domestic governance was just building outhouses in Peoria.

Reeves shows a presidency doomed from the start. It begins with Nixon and Kissinger using the CIA to cover up a 1969 murder by American soldiers in Vietnam that led to the theft and publication of the Pentagon Papers, then to secret counterintelligence units in the White House and finally to the burglaries and cover-up that came to be known as Watergate. Richard Reeves's President Nixon will stand as the authoritative account of Nixon in the White House. It is an astonishing story.

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A Story So Bizarre It Could Only Be True

-- George Duncan, editorial writer in Virginia, April 17, 2002

A Story So Bizarre It Could Only Be True

-- George Duncan, editorial writer in Virginia, April 17, 2002

The Word On The Street
A wealth of information that makes the absolute convincing case that Nixon was not just alone, but isolated, walled-off, and even lonely. May we never again have a president so cut off from the rest of humanity. It is a haunting story that no reader will ever forget.
— (Bob Woodward, author of Maestro) —Bob Woodward

Dick Reeves has found new lodes of information to mine in the endlessly fascinating character and behavior of Richard Nixon. New information, newly interpreted with great insight.
— (Ben Bradlee, author of A Good Life) —Ben Bradlee

Reeves has once again succeeded in making a presidency come alive. By unearthing Nixon's notes to himself and other treasures in the archives, he is able to capture his brooding and lonely personality as well as his subtle mind. With a wealth of color about key days and decisions, the book shows what it is really like to be president.
— (Walter Isaacson, author of Kissinger: A Biography) —Walter Isaacson

An intimate and gripping portrait. Richard Nixon's brain was a mansion with dark chambers and twisted halls. Reeves leads us through all of them. He is unrelenting, but also sympathetic and humane.
— (David Brooks, author of Bobos in Paradise) —David Brooks

	Introduction	11
	Prologue: August 9, 1974	19
1	January 21, 1969	26
2	February 23, 1969	41
3	March 17, 1969	48
4	April 15, 1969	64
5	June 19, 1969	82
6	July 20, 1969	94
7	August 8, 1969	109
8	October 15, 1969	125
9	December 8, 1969	146
10	January 22, 1970	157
11	April 8, 1970	174
12	April 30, 1970	190
13	May 4, 1970	211
14	June 30, 1970	223
15	September 23, 1970	235
16	November 3, 1970	261
17	December 31, 1970	273
18	March 29, 1971	293
19	June 12, 1971	311
20	June 30, 1971	331
21	August 12, 1971	340
22	August 15, 1971	355
23	September 8, 1971	367
24	October 21, 1971	375
25	December 16, 1971	385
26	January 2, 1972	409
27	January 25, 1972	421
28	February 22, 1972	432
29	April 7, 1972	458
30	May 1, 1972	465
31	May 15, 1972	478
32	June 17, 1972	486
33	June 23, 1972	501
34	August 22, 1972	515
35	November 7, 1972	524
36	December 19, 1972	543
37	January 23, 1973	556
38	March 23, 1973	575
39	April 30, 1973	591
	Epilogue	604
	Notes	611
	Bibliographic Essay	663
	Acknowledgments	671
	Index	673

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Keywords
Nixon, Richard M, (Richard Milhous),, 1913-, Presidents, United States, U.S. President, U.S. History - Post World War Ii Period, Biography / Autobiography, Political, Historical - U.S., Presidents & Heads of State, United States - 20th Century, Biography & Autobiography