In 1978, Nixon published his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", the first of ten books he was to author in his retirement. The book was a bestseller and attracted a generally positive critical response. Nixon visited the White House in 1979, invited by Carter for the state dinner for Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Carter had not wanted to invite Nixon, but Deng had said he would visit Nixon in California if the former president was not invited. Nixon had a private meeting with Deng and visited Beijing again in mid-1979. On August 10, 1979, the Nixons purchased a 12‐room condominium occupying the seventh floor of 817 Fifth Avenue New York City after being rejected by two Manhattan co-ops.
Author and elder statesman
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
Yes, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", and nine other books. Yes, his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon". Nixon published his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", the first of ten books he was to author in his retirement. Yes, he published his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon".
what is checkers speech?
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An address by Senator Richard Nixon.
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who is nixon?
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The 37th president of the United States.
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where was he born?
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Yorba Linda, California.
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what was the watergate scandal?
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It was an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration.
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describe his policies related to space?
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He disapproved plans for a permanent base on moon, Mars expedition, Manned Orbital Laboratory program for funds. But he approved a five -year cooperative program between NASA and Soviet space program.
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for what was he given a pardon?
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For the Watergate scandal.
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what kind of service did he give to the military?
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He was a lieutenant in the United States Navy.
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did he ever resign from the position of president?
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Yes, as he lost his political support and feared impeachment.
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how was his public image?
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Biographer Elizabeth Drew summarized Nixon as a "smart, talented man, but most peculiar and haunted of presidents".
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did he write any books?
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In 1978, Nixon published his memoirs, "RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon", the first of ten books he was to author in his retirement. The book was a bestseller and attracted a generally positive critical response. Nixon visited the White House in 1979, invited by Carter for the state dinner for Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Carter had not wanted to invite Nixon, but Deng had said he would visit Nixon in California if the former president was not invited. Nixon had a private meeting with Deng and visited Beijing again in mid-1979. On August 10, 1979, the Nixons purchased a 12‐room condominium occupying the seventh floor of 817 Fifth Avenue New York City after being rejected by two Manhattan co-ops.
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
His periodic overindulgences, especially during stressful times such as during Apollo 13, concerned Price and others, including then-advisor Ehrlichman and long-time valet Manolo Sanchez. Author and former British politician David Owen deemed Nixon an alcoholic. Biographer Elizabeth Drew summarized Nixon as a "smart, talented man, but most peculiar and haunted of presidents". In his account of the Nixon presidency, author Richard Reeves described Nixon as "a strange man of uncomfortable shyness, who functioned best alone with his thoughts". Nixon's presidency was doomed by his personality, Reeves argues: He assumed the worst in people and he brought out the worst in them ...
Richard Nixon | Personality and public image
He wrote "The Nixon Watch" column, which was noted for its preoccupation with the relationship between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, followed by "The White House Watch" column. In addition to his political books, he co-authored two Time-Life series books, one about Britain, the other about the Old South. Known for his courtly manners, he had a slow drawl and a quiet demeanor, which belied his sharp political sense. While in Washington, D.C., he was a very respected member-some said the most respected by the other members—of The White House Press Corps.
John F. Osborne | Works
Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns asked of Nixon, "How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?" Nixon's biographers disagree on how he will be perceived by posterity. According to Ambrose, "Nixon wanted to be judged by what he accomplished. What he will be remembered for is the nightmare he put the country through in his second term and for his resignation." Irwin Gellman, who chronicled Nixon's Congressional career, suggests, "He was remarkable among his congressional peers, a success story in a troubled era, one who steered a sensible anti-Communist course against the excess of McCarthy." Aitken feels that "Nixon, both as a man and as a statesman, has been excessively maligned for his faults and inadequately recognised for his virtues.
Richard Nixon | Legacy
Following this trip, Nixon was ranked in a Gallup poll as one of the ten most admired men in the world. In 1986, Nixon addressed a convention of newspaper publishers, impressing his audience with his "tour d'horizon" of the world. At the time, political pundit Elizabeth Drew wrote, "Even when he was wrong, Nixon still showed that he knew a great deal and had a capacious memory, as well as the capacity to speak with apparent authority, enough to impress people who had little regard for him in earlier times." "Newsweek" ran a story on "Nixon's comeback" with the headline "He's back".
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
"Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character" was published in late 1981 and received reviews less enthusiastic than for any of her earlier books. Writing in "The New Republic", Godfrey Hodgson questioned both her psychoanalytic approach and her motives: "[W]e are in danger of having the insights of psychotherapy used as a tool for character destruction, certainly for libel, potentially for revenge." According to J. Philipp Rosenberg, Brodie's study of Richard Nixon's early career demonstrated a weakness of psychobiography because it was written by an author who disliked her subject. Sales of the book were disappointing, in part because of the reviews, and in part because memoirs by Nixon associates such as Henry Kissinger, John Ehrlichman, and John Dean had recently flooded the market.
Fawn M. Brodie | Reviews
When the deposed Shah of Iran died in Egypt in July 1980, Nixon defied the State Department, which intended to send no U.S. representative, by attending the funeral. Though Nixon had no official credentials, as a former president he was seen as the American presence at its former ally's funeral. Nixon supported Ronald Reagan for president in 1980, making television appearances portraying himself as, in biographer Stephen Ambrose's words, "the senior statesman above the fray". He wrote guest articles for many publications both during the campaign and after Reagan's victory. After eighteen months in the New York City townhouse, Nixon and his wife moved in 1981 to Saddle River, New Jersey.
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
He was well read in standard literature, and on all the great political questions of the day. His style of composition was easy and graceful, indicative of a powerful mind. Despite differences of opinion with others, there was no personal antagonism. He was earnest in his advocacy of any cause which he took up, and in his long connection with the press exercised considerable influence on the communities in which he worked.
Francis Hodgson Nixon | Career
Morris has served as a university lecturer, but is best known as a writer. His biography of Nixon, "Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician," was short-listed for the National Book Award. He served as a senior fellow of the Green Institute. His major works include:
Roger Morris (American writer) | Biography
Hannah Nixon is acknowledged to have exerted a tremendous effect on her son's outlook throughout his life. In Richard Nixon's final remarks at the White House on August 9, 1974, he stated about her, "Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this about your mother – my mother was a saint. And I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others in order that she could take care of my older brother for 3 years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die, and when they died, it was like one of her own.
Hannah Milhous Nixon | Introduction
Nixon's career was frequently dogged by his persona and the public's perception of it. Editorial cartoonists and comedians often exaggerated his appearance and mannerisms, to the point where the line between the human and the caricature became increasingly blurred. He was often portrayed with unshaven jowls, slumped shoulders, and a furrowed, sweaty brow. Nixon had a complex personality, both very secretive and awkward, yet strikingly reflective about himself. He was inclined to distance himself from people and was formal in all aspects, wearing a coat and tie even when home alone. Nixon biographer Conrad Black described him as being "driven" though also "uneasy with himself in some ways".
Richard Nixon | Personality and public image
Courage and Hesitation: Notes and Photographs of the Nixon Administration is a 1971 non-fiction book by Allen Drury. It is an inside look at U. S. President Richard Nixon and those closest to him midway through his first term in office, with photographs by Fred J. Maroon.
Courage and Hesitation | Introduction
Following his release from prison, Ehrlichman held a number of jobs, first for a quality control firm, then writer, artist and commentator. Ehrlichman wrote several novels, including "The Company", which served as the basis for the 1977 television miniseries "". He served as the executive vice president of an Atlanta hazardous materials firm. In a 1981 interview, Ehrlichman referred to Nixon as a "very pathetic figure in American history." His experiences in the Nixon administration were published in his 1982 book, "Witness To Power". The book portrays Nixon in a very negative light, and is considered to be the culmination of his frustration at not being pardoned by Nixon before his own 1974 resignation.
John Ehrlichman | Post-political life
His book, "The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate", was named by "The New York Times" as one of the best books of the year in 1974. He is also the author of "What Americans Really Think", published by Pantheon in 1988, based on columns he wrote while pollster and public opinion analyst at "The Washington Post", and "Maverick, A Life in Politics", written with and about the former U.S. Senator and governor of Connecticut, Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., published in 1995 by Little, Brown.
Barry Sussman | Bibliography
Brodie considered a range of subjects for a new biography. Brigham Young was a clear field, but she decided not to “return to old ground”. Richard Nixon had resigned the presidency shortly after she had finished "Jefferson," and Brodie had spoken formally to both students and others about the former president. As a liberal Democrat, Brodie had developed a “repellent fascination" with Nixon, a man whom she called “a rattlesnake”, a “plain damn liar”, and a "shabby, pathetic felon". Although Brodie thought Nixon was an imposter like Joseph Smith, she did not believe him to be the “charming imposter the Mormon leader was".
Fawn M. Brodie | "Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character"
Condon's writing was known for its complex plotting, fascination with trivia, and loathing for those in power; at least two of his books featured thinly disguised versions of Richard Nixon. His characters tend to be driven by obsession, usually sexual or political, and family loyalty. His plots often have elements of classical tragedy, with protagonists whose pride leads them to destroy what they love. Some of his books, most notably "Mile High" (1969), are perhaps best described as secret history. "And Then We Moved to Rossenarra" is a humorous autobiographical recounting of various places in the world where he had lived and his family's 1970s move to Rossenarra, Co.
Richard Condon | Introduction
Shirley is now working on three more books on Reagan including a detailed look at his 1968 run for the presidency. He is also writing a book about Dr. Howard Snyder, personal physician to President Dwight Eisenhower, as well as a book about George Washington’s family. He additionally plans to write the sequel to "Citizen Newt", about Newt Gingrich's years as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He is also working on a book about Harry S. Truman and a book about James Monroe.
Craig Shirley | Writing career
In December 1974, Nixon began planning his comeback despite the considerable ill will against him in the country. He wrote in his diary, referring to himself and Pat, By early 1975, Nixon's health was improving. He maintained an office in a Coast Guard station 300 yards from his home, at first taking a golf cart and later walking the route each day; he mainly worked on his memoirs. He had hoped to wait before writing his memoirs; the fact that his assets were being eaten away by expenses and lawyer fees compelled him to begin work quickly. He was handicapped in this work by the end of his transition allowance in February, which compelled him to part with many of his staff, including Ziegler.
Richard Nixon | Return to public life
Nixon wrote more than 140 books, including "The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore" (1979). She co-authored several science books with her geologist husband Hershell Nixon. Nixon was the only author to win four Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, and had five additional nominations. She won the California Young Reader Medal of the California Library Association twice. She also won the Western Writers of America's Golden Spur Award twice, and received the Texas Institute of Letters Award. Her book "Land of Hope" is used in some middle schools. Her novel "The Other Side of Dark" was made into the 1995 TV movie "Awake To Danger", starring Tori Spelling and Michael Gross.
Joan Lowery Nixon | Work
In "The New York Times Book Review," Christopher Hitchens wrote that the "inescapable conclusion" of the book, "well-guarded by meticulous research and footnotes, is that in the Nixon era, the United States was, in essence, a 'rogue state.'". "Publishers Weekly" thought the book "impressive...the most thorough case against Nixon yet." In "The San Francisco Chronicle," Steve Weinberg wrote that, "in many ways, "The Arrogance of Power" is the best single-volume, full-life biography of Nixon ever published."
Anthony Summers | "The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon," with Robbyn Swan (2000)
These include "Lifelong Democrat Retired Palm Beach Jews for Buchanan" (referencing the butterfly ballot fracas that brought about the 2000 recount in Florida), "I cast my five slaves' three votes for James K. Polk" and "Undecided Voters for Candidate". Another has "Humphrey in '68" in large print, then in much smaller print "Because otherwise, in four years, Nixon's boys will be caught breaking into the Watergate office trying to sabotage their opponents, creating unprecedented scandal and ushering in an era of cynicism that will shape politics for decades to come. Call it a hunch. So, to repeat: Humphrey in '68".
America (The Book) | Description
Carl Bernstein and Robert Woodward, writers from the "Washington Post", published "The Final Days" in 1976. The best-selling book documented the downfall of President Richard Nixon, and their involvement in his resignation, he was not impeached. Throughout this period many other books related to Nixon and the Watergate scandal topped the best-selling lists. 1977 brought many high-profile biographical works of literary figures, such as those of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and J. R. R. Tolkien. By 1975, the independence and freedom themes evolved into the swinging singles scene, with "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" by Judith Rossner at number four on the fiction top ten list.
Literature in the 1970s | Nonfiction
Nixon painted Elizabeth Farren and other theatrical celebrities, as well as figures of Shakespearean characters. He sent some portraits in oil to the Royal Academy, and in 1786 a series of ten designs illustrating "Tristram Shandy". His portraits of Dr. Francis Willis, the Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth Hartley, and the sisters Jenny and Nelly Bennet were engraved.
James Nixon (painter) | Works
Yes, she will have no books written about her. But she was a saint."
Hannah Milhous Nixon | Introduction
McGinniss's first book, "The Selling of the President 1968", landed on "The New York Times" Best Seller list when he was 26 years old, making him the youngest living writer with that achievement. The book was on "The New York Times" non-fiction bestseller list for 31 weeks from October 1969 to May 1970. The book described the marketing of Richard Nixon during the 1968 presidential campaign. The idea for the book came to McGinniss almost serendipitously: [He] stumbled across his book's topic while taking a train to New York. A fellow commuter had just landed the Hubert Humphrey account and was boasting that 'in six weeks we'll have him looking better than Abraham Lincoln.' McGinniss tried to get access to Humphrey's campaign first, but they turned him down.
Joe McGinniss | "The Selling of the President"
Nixon taught at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, from 1981 to 2000, and then joined the faculty at Mills College, Oakland, California. She retired from teaching in 2016. Nixon wrote two unpublished novels before becoming assistant professor at Indiana University. Her first published book was "Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women," a critical essay that examined what Nixon saw as the change in gender power dynamics between D. H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" and "Women in Love", a supposed sequel "The Rainbow". In 1991, Nixon wrote "Now You See It", a novel in stories. It was very favorably reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in the "New York Times, by Richard Locke in "The Wall Street Journal", in "The Chicago Tribune", and "Entertainment Weekly".
Cornelia Nixon | Career
Throughout the 1980s, Nixon maintained an ambitious schedule of speaking engagements and writing, traveled, and met with many foreign leaders, especially those of Third World countries. He joined former Presidents Ford and Carter as representatives of the United States at the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. On a trip to the Middle East, Nixon made his views known regarding Saudi Arabia and Libya, which attracted significant U.S. media attention; "The Washington Post" ran stories on Nixon's "rehabilitation". Nixon visited the Soviet Union in 1986 and on his return sent President Reagan a lengthy memorandum containing foreign policy suggestions and his personal impressions of Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
Richard Nixon | Author and elder statesman
Six Crises is the first book written by Richard Nixon, who later became the 37th president of the United States. It was published in 1962, and it recounts his role in six major political situations. Nixon wrote the book in response to John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize–winning "Profiles in Courage", which had greatly improved Kennedy's public image.
Six Crises | Introduction
Due to the circumstances of Nixon's departure, he did not receive the level of information and courtesy offered to previous former presidents. During this period he was also Nixon's golfing partner and confidant. During his time with the Nixons, Brennan helped the family with two major health crises: Richard Nixon suffered from a dangerous case of phlebitis in 1974, and former First Lady Pat Nixon suffered a stroke in 1976. Both recovered. When Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein released their 1976 book, "The Final Days", Brennan felt that it did not correspond with his own time with the former President, but he stated "as a fictitious novel, it reads well."
Jack Brennan | Nixon's Chief of Staff
Edward Calvert Nixon (May 3, 1930 – February 27, 2019) was an American entrepreneur and the youngest brother of United States President Richard Nixon. He coauthored his memoir, "The Nixons: A Family Portrait", with Karen L. Olson. The book was published in 2009.
Edward Nixon | Introduction
Drew has published 14 books, including "Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-74" (1975), an account of the Watergate scandal; "Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign" (1981); "On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency" (1994); "Citizen McCain" (2002); and "George W. Bush's Washington" (2004). Her most recent book is "Richard M. Nixon" (2007). "Washington Journal" was re-issued in 2014, with a new afterword.
Elizabeth Drew | Career
Nixon's performance in the debate was perceived to be mediocre in the visual medium of television, though many people listening on the radio thought Nixon had won. Nixon narrowly lost the election; Kennedy won the popular vote by only 112,827 votes (0.2 percent). There were charges of voter fraud in Texas and Illinois, both states won by Kennedy. Nixon refused to consider contesting the election, feeling a lengthy controversy would diminish the United States in the eyes of the world and the uncertainty would hurt U.S. interests. At the end of his term of office as vice president in January 1961, Nixon and his family returned to California, where he practiced law and wrote a bestselling book, "Six Crises", which included coverage of the Hiss case, Eisenhower's heart attack, and the Fund Crisis, which had been resolved by the Checkers speech.
Richard Nixon | 1960 and 1962 elections; wilderness years
So he called up Nixon's, and they said yes. The book was well received by critics and has been recognized as a "classic of campaign reporting that first introduced many readers to the stage-managed world of political theater." Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who served as a Richard Nixon campaign adviser and featured prominently in the book, said in a statement that McGinniss "changed political writing forever in 1968." It "spent more than six months on best-sellers lists ... and McGinniss sold a lot of those books through television, appearing on the titular shows of Merv Griffin, David Frost, and Dick Cavett, among others." Conservative writer William F.
Joe McGinniss | "The Selling of the President"
He clung to the idea of being "tough". He thought that was what had brought him to the edge of greatness. But that was what betrayed him. He could not open himself to other men and he could not open himself to greatness. In October 1999, a volume of 1971 White House audio tapes was released which contained multiple statements by Nixon deemed derogatory toward Jews. In one conversation with H. R. Haldeman, Nixon said that Washington was "full of Jews" and that "most Jews are disloyal," making exceptions for some of his top aides. He then added, "But, Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards.
Richard Nixon | Personality and public image
This bibliography of Richard Nixon includes publications by 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon and books and scholarly articles about him and his policies.
Bibliography of Richard Nixon | Introduction
The Birdwells of her books "The Friendly Persuasion" and 'Except for Me and Thee' are based on Joshua and Elizabeth Milhous, the great-grandparents she shares with President Nixon.
Jessamyn West (writer) | Work
Famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock was the running mate in Virginia and Pennsylvania garnering more than the party he had left. The Freedom and Peace Party also ran other candidates, including Beulah Sanders for New York State Senate and Flora Brown for New York State Assembly. His efforts landed him on the master list of Nixon's political opponents. Gregory then wrote the book "Write Me In" about his presidential campaign. One anecdote in the book relates the story of a publicity stunt that came out of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. The campaign had printed dollar bills with Gregory's image on them, some of which made it into circulation, causing considerable problems, but priceless publicity.
Dick Gregory | Political career
It was termed "a masterpiece" by Conrad Black, one of his biographers. Black opined that "What was intended to be an unprecedented humiliation for any American president, Nixon converted into a virtual parliamentary acknowledgement of almost blameless insufficiency of legislative support to continue. He left while devoting half his address to a recitation of his accomplishments in office."
Richard Nixon | Resignation
He also wrote psychohistorical biographies on Richard Nixon (written at the time of the Watergate hearings, and receiving wide popular attention and acclaim), Henry Kissinger, and James and John Stuart Mill.
Bruce Mazlish | Scholarship
In 2011 Nixon published her memoirs in the book "Fair Cop" (), which she wrote with Jo Chandler. The book was launched by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. It was criticised by the Police Association Victoria for what the association claims is a biased recollection of events, and by the "Herald Sun".
Christine Nixon | Memoirs
Also in 1955, while Nixon was serving as vice-president to Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and his research assistants wrote in his book "Profiles in Courage", "Some of them may have been representing the actual sentiments of the silent majority of their constituents in opposition to the screams of a vocal minority..." In January 1956, Kennedy gave Nixon an autographed copy of the book. Nixon wrote back the next day to thank him: "My time for reading has been rather limited recently, but your book is first on my list and I am looking forward to reading it with great pleasure and interest." Nixon wrote "Six Crises", some say his response to Kennedy's book, after visiting Kennedy at the White House in April 1961.
Silent majority | Nixon
McCarry was an admirer of the work of W. Somerset Maugham, especially the stories. He was also an admirer of Richard Condon, author of "The Manchurian Candidate" (1959), "Prizzi's Honor" (1982), and numerous other novels. --Stories include: In March 1981, shortly after taking office, Ronald Reagan was shot; Secretary of State Haig appeared in the White House press room and announced, "I am in charge here!" Otto Penzler, ed.:
Charles McCarry | Influences
Nixon never is named in the book, but there can be no doubt as to his identity. The narrative refers explicitly to the Watergate scandal, as an event contemporaneous with Goodkind's employment in the White House.
Inside, Outside (Wouk novel) | Introduction
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973–1990 is a 1991 book by American historian Stephen Ambrose and the third part of a three-volume biography of President of the United States Richard Nixon. The series began with "" and continued with "". "Ruin and Recovery" details Nixon's fall from grace after his resounding 1972 reelection, including the Watergate scandal and his eventual resignation of the Presidency in 1974. It also describes Nixon's life after his presidency and the partial restoration of his reputation. Although many Nixon aides and associates cooperated with Ambrose, Nixon himself declined to be interviewed. Nixon told an interviewer that he did not read the book after publication either, labelling Ambrose as "just another left-wing historian".
Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973–1990 | Introduction
Brodie considered “Nixon the perpetrator of an assault on her privacy”.
Fawn M. Brodie | "Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character"
Joseph Ralph McGinniss Sr. (December 9, 1942 – March 10, 2014) was an American non-fiction writer and novelist. The author of twelve books, he first came to prominence with the best-selling "The Selling of the President 1968" which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon. He is popularly known for his trilogy of bestselling true crime books — "Fatal Vision", "Blind Faith" and "Cruel Doubt" — which were adapted into TV miniseries in the 1980s and 90s. His last book was "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin", an account of Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who was the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Joe McGinniss | Introduction
Aitken has written several Christian religious books since his release from prison. Aitken has published two books of prayers, "Prayers for People under Pressure" (2006) and "Psalms for People Under Pressure" (2004), and wrote a biography of the English slaver and Anglican clergyman John Newton, "John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace" in 2007. Aitken has written several biographies of political figures, including the President of the United States Richard Nixon ("Nixon: A Life", 1993), and Nixon's co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal, Charles Colson ("Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed", 2005). Colson had assisted Aitken in his biography of Nixon, and had later corresponded with Aitken urging him to repent in the wake of the "Guardian" libel case.
Jonathan Aitken | Later books
He often spoke lovingly of his mother as a "Quaker saint", and began his memoirs with the words "I was born in a house my father built". Writer Jessamyn West, a cousin of the Nixons, was in Frank's Sunday school class for some time. She later described him as "a fiery persuasive teacher", and wrote that Frank Nixon's version of the social gospel made her favor socialism. By the time of his later adulthood, Nixon often discussed his political opinions with strangers, his son Don remembering his father as being willing to debate anyone he encountered in the family market and having an intolerance of Democrats.
Francis A. Nixon | Career
After years as a corporate lawyer, Janklow became a literary agent in 1972, when his friend and client, William Safire, asked him to handle a book he was writing about Richard Nixon. Janklow created tremendous attention for the book by requiring editors to come to his office and not allowing any pages to leave the room; according to him, "We ended up getting a huge sum, unheard of at the time for nonfiction." He ushered in a new era in authors' rights when he successfully sued publisher William Morrow and Company for violating their contract. According to him, "they said, 'You can't force a publisher to print a book; that's never been done' ...
Morton L. Janklow | Career
The magic Camelot of John F. Kennedy never existed." After Watergate and the fall of Richard Nixon, White broke his quadrennial pattern with "Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon" (1975), a dispassionate account of the scandal and its players. There was no 1976 volume from White; the closest analogue was "Marathon" by Jules Witcover. After a volume of memoirs, published in 1978, he returned to presidential coverage with the 1980 campaign, and "America In Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956–80" (1982), draws together original reporting and new social analysis of the previous quarter-century, focusing primarily but not exclusively on the Reagan-Carter contest.
Theodore H. White | "Making of the President" series
Nixon.
Edward T. Folliard | Introduction
Yet even in a spirit of historical revisionism, no simple verdict is possible." Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns asked of Nixon, "How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?" Political historian and pollster Douglas Schoen argues that Nixon was the most important American figure in post-war U.S. politics, while constitutional law professor Cass Sunstein noted in 2017, "If you are listing the five most consequential Presidents in American history, you could make a good argument that Nixon belongs on the list." Historian Melvin Small argues that, "If it is possible to evaluate Nixon's years in the White House without considering his character and the scandals that led to his resignation, then his presidency certainly seems far from a failure." But Small also states, "Watergate did not begin when CREEP operatives broke into Democratic headquarters in 1972.
Presidency of Richard Nixon | Historical reputation
He is the author of two published books. The first, "Nancy Reagan: It's Still My Turn" (1990) which started as performance art piece at Highways in Santa Monica, and transferred to New York's the Actor's Playhouse Off Broadway. His second book, "Irritable Bowels and the People Who Give You Them" (2015), is a collection of comic essays about his life in Hollywood. In 2018 he appeared in two episodes of FX's Emmy Award-winning"" as David Gallo.
Terry Sweeney | Other credits
Richard's younger brother Arthur died in 1925 at the age of seven after a short illness. Richard was twelve years old when a spot was found on his lung. With a family history of tuberculosis, he was forbidden to play sports. Eventually, the spot was found to be scar tissue from an early bout of pneumonia.
Richard Nixon | Early life
Ambrose's special triumph that he has been able to fight through the memoranda, the directives, plans, reports, and official self-serving pieties of the World War II establishment to uncover the idiosyncratic people at its center." Ambrose also wrote a three-volume biography of Richard Nixon. Although Ambrose was a strong critic of Nixon, the biography was considered fair and just regarding Nixon's presidency.
Stephen E. Ambrose | Writings
While the criminal farce of Watergate was in the making, Nixon's inspirational statesmanship was establishing new working relationships both with Communist China and with the Soviet Union."
Richard Nixon | Legacy
He wrote a critical report about lobbying and Lyndon B. Johnson entitled "Lyndon Johnson's Credibility Gap." He was also critical of the Nixon Administration, which landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. One of his most well-known book was "Straight Stuff: The Reporters, The White House and the Truth".
James Deakin | Publications
Buckley, Jr., "assumed McGinniss had relied on 'an elaborate deception which has brought joy and hope to the Nixon-haters.' But even Buckley liked the book."
Joe McGinniss | "The Selling of the President"
In "Reelpolitik II: Political Ideologies in '50s and '60s Films" (2004), Beverly Merrill Kelley wrote that Drury accepted the commission to write the book despite the fact that he found Nixon to be "very weird, very odd."
Courage and Hesitation | Overview
"Six Crises" was Nixon's response to the John F. Kennedy book, "Profiles in Courage" (1955), which described the courage of eight US Senators. Kennedy sent Nixon a copy of his book, which Nixon thanked him for the next day. In 1961, following his 1960 presidential defeat to Kennedy, Nixon was encouraged by Mamie Eisenhower to write a book about his experiences. On April 20, he visited Kennedy in the White House where Kennedy urged him to write a book; he said that doing so would raise the public image of any public man. Nixon met with a Doubleday book editor the same month.
Six Crises | Background and writing
According to Black, Nixon thought that he was doomed to be traduced, double-crossed, unjustly harassed, misunderstood, underappreciated, and subjected to the trials of Job, but that by the application of his mighty will, tenacity, and diligence, he would ultimately prevail. Nixon sometimes drank to excess, especially during 1970 when things were not going well for him. He also had trouble battling insomnia, for which he was prescribed sleeping pills. According to Ray Price, he sometimes took them in together. Nixon also took dilantin, recommended by Jack Dreyfus. That medicine is usually prescribed to treat and prevent seizures, but in Nixon's case it was to battle depression.
Richard Nixon | Personality and public image
Nixon also is not related to Richard Nixon.
Derek Lee Nixon | Introduction
Reviews of the book focused both on the disclosures within it and the methods by which it was written. Regarding the first, the "Los Angeles Times" said the book was "Fascinating, macabre, mordant, melancholy, frightening..." "Newsweek", which ran the excerpts, described it as "An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time." The book as a whole gave a more balanced, at times sympathetic, portrait of Nixon. "The New York Times" daily review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt said that the book was "Unprecedented...[Nixon] emerges from the book as a tragic figure weathering a catastrophic ordeal (of his own making, to be sure, but that is the nature of truly tragic ordeals), and weathering it with considerable courage and dignity." This fuller depiction did much to ameliorate the initial denunciations of the book.
The Final Days | Critical response
Like Kennedy, Nixon used a ghostwriter for much of his book. The primary such writer was reportedly Charles Lichenstein. Years later, Nixon's editor at Doubleday, Kenneth McCormick, recounted: "I enjoyed working with him on 'Six Crises.' He had the concept for the book. He had the whole thing in his head, but he said, 'I'm not much of a writer,' and I said, 'I know.' So Nixon talked the book into a tape recorder and another writer came in to help. Then Nixon said, 'Why don't I try the chapter on defeat? In the course of doing this I think I've learned to write.' Well, he wrote that chapter himself, and it was fine.
Six Crises | Background and writing
His career was interrupted by war service when he was called up as a major in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. He spent this time visiting anti-aircraft sites across the country, visiting many local libraries in the process. In 1951 Nixon married Enid Bromley with whom he had three sons. Returning to the British Museum, Nixon was involved in setting up a microfilm unit and also developed an interest in bookbinding history, a subject upon which he published extensively. In his obituary, "The Times" called him the "doyen of historians of bookbinding in Britain", with a "keen eye" for detail who had given the subject "not merely an academic distinction that it had lacked before but also a basis on which others will build with confidence".
Howard Nixon | Life
Her grandsons are the screenwriters Ted Griffin and Nicholas Griffin, the sons of a daughter Nixon had with husband William Seiter.
Marian Nixon | Personal life
Nixon was known for landscapes, and for caricatures, some of which he etched himself. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1784 to 1815. He drew a number of views of the seats of the nobility and gentry in England and Ireland, which were engraved for a series published by William Watts.
John Colley Nixon | Works
While living in California before Nixon made his political comeback, Brokaw had come to know H. R. 'Bob' Haldeman (White House chief of staff and initiator of the offer) as well as Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, and others members of the White House staff. In 2019, Brokaw wrote a book entitled, "The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate", about his experiences working as a reporter and experiences as a member of the White House press corps.
Tom Brokaw | 1966-1981: Early years
Trohan was a long-time "intimate journalist friend" of Richard Nixon. In 1953, he wrote Nixon (then the vice president) a letter that warned him against U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Walter Trohan | Richard Nixon
Knowing that she could never complete a full biography, Brodie ended the manuscript with Nixon's pre-presidential years, lending it an unfinished quality.
Fawn M. Brodie | Illness
About the countries where he had opportunities for more extensive study and investigation he is penetrating, objective and highly informative." He also wrote "East Wind Rising: A Long View of the Pacific Crisis" (1960), "A Reporter Reports" (1960); "Churchill: Portrait of Greatness" (1965), "Assassination: The Death of President John F. Kennedy" (1968), "Dwight D. Eisenhower: A Gauge of Greatness" (1969), and "The Associated Press Story of Election 1968" (1969).
Relman Morin | Books
Nixon's onetime opponent George McGovern commented in 1983, "President Nixon probably had a more practical approach to the two superpowers, China and the Soviet Union, than any other president since World WarII [...] With the exception of his inexcusable continuation of the war in Vietnam, Nixon really will get high marks in history." Political scientist Jussi Hanhimäki disagrees, saying that Nixon's diplomacy was merely a continuation of the Cold War policy of containment by diplomatic, rather than military means. Historian Christopher Andrew concludes that "Nixon was a great statesman on the world stage as well as a shabby practitioner of electoral politics in the domestic arena.
Richard Nixon | Legacy
Neil Nixon is an author, journalist and academic from Workington, England. Nixon's published works include titles on the paranormal, popular music, football and two novels published under the name of Stanley Manly. In 1999, he founded the United Kingdom's first full-time higher education course in Professional Writing. Nixon's scripts include material for television and radio. His radio play "Mr. Lennon" was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Single Drama.
Neil Nixon | Introduction
Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, has inspired or been portrayed in numerous cultural works.
Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon | Introduction
Nixon was one of the founding members of The Court Jesters, an improvisation troupe at the Court Theatre in Christchurch, in 1989. He began his writing career writing children's plays for the Court Theatre. He also wrote a young adult novel, 'Guardians of Mother Earth', published in December 1996. He began writing for adults in 1997, and won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition, for 'My Father Running with a Dead Boy' in 1997 (his first short story) and 'Weight' in 1999. He was a runner up in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition in 1999 and won the premier prize in 2007.
Carl Nixon | Career
Richard G. Hubler (born Richard Gibson Hubler; 20 August 1912 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania – 21 October 1981 in Ojai, California), was an American screenwriter, military author, and writer of biographies, fiction, and non-fiction. However, his best-known work is the 1965 autobiography he ghostwrote for Ronald Reagan, "Where's the Rest of Me?".
Richard G. Hubler | Introduction
To support himself and his family, Mee turned from writing plays to writing books in 1965. "Lorenzo De'Medici and the Renaissance", the first of his many nonfiction books, was published in 1969 by HarperCollins Juvenile Books. At the same time, he increasingly became caught up in anti-Vietnam War politics, campaigning for anti-war congressional candidates and writing anti-war polemics. He did not return to writing for the theater for 20 years. In the 1970s, he became the co-founder and chairman of The National Committee on the Presidency, a grassroots organization which called for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. His political activism led to his writing of political histories for the general public.
Charles L. Mee | Literary career
The book included interviews with the chiefs of staff of presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. After the interviews, Medved continued his involvement in politics, befriending Ford's chief of staff, Dick Cheney, affiliating himself with the Republican Party, and campaigning for Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Michael Medved | Writer
Mikhail Gorbachev, former Communist Party First Secretary and then President of the Soviet Union, was among the interviews for the book. When Stent asked Gorbachev what world leader he most admired, his answer was "Ronald Reagan was the greatest western statesman with whom I dealt. He was an intelligent and astute politician who had vision and imagination."
Angela Stent | Writings
The book does not cover Johnson's entire life, however it does cover his rise in the U. S. Congress. Distrust of Johnson grew during his presidency until, as Richard Rovere was to write in The New Yorker - "It seems ... to be a fact beyond dispute that no other President has had to live in an atmosphere so heavy with distrust and disbelief as Lyndon Johnson ... What may well be a majority of the American people are persuaded that the President is a dishonest and dishonorable man."
Box 13 scandal | Aftermath
Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915 in New York City – April 9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas) was a prolific and popular American political novelist. Though his works were satire, they were generally transformed into thrillers or semi-thrillers in other media, such as cinema. All 26 books were written in distinctive Condon style, which combined a fast pace, outrage, and frequent humor while focusing almost obsessively on monetary greed and political corruption. Condon himself once said: "Every book I've ever written has been about abuse of power. I feel very strongly about that. I'd like people to know how deeply their politicians wrong them." Condon's books were occasionally bestsellers, and a number of his books were made into films; he is primarily remembered for his 1959 "The Manchurian Candidate" and, many years later, a series of four novels about a family of New York gangsters named Prizzi.
Richard Condon | Introduction
Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Nixon as a below average president. In a 2018 poll of the American Political Science Association's Presidents and Executive Politics section, Nixon was ranked as the 33rd greatest president. A 2017 C-Span poll of historians ranked Nixon as the 28th greatest president. According to historian Stephen E. Ambrose, "Nixon wanted to be judged by what he accomplished. What he will be remembered for is the nightmare he put the country through in his second term and for his resignation." Biographer Jonathan Aitken, by contrast, feels that "Nixon, both as a man and as a statesman, has been excessively maligned for his faults and inadequately recognised for his virtues.
Presidency of Richard Nixon | Historical reputation
In 1963 the Nixon family traveled to Europe, where Nixon gave press conferences and met with leaders of the countries he visited. The family moved to New York City, where Nixon became a senior partner in the leading law firm Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. When announcing his California campaign, Nixon had pledged not to run for president in 1964; even if he had not, he believed it would be difficult to defeat Kennedy, or after his assassination, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson.
Richard Nixon | 1960 and 1962 elections; wilderness years
Keogh was born in Platte County, Nebraska and graduated from Creighton University in Omaha in 1938. He worked for the "Omaha World-Herald" in Omaha before working at "Time" magazine. He worked as an affairs reporter at "Time" in 1951, and was the assistant managing editor from 1961 to 1968. Keogh worked as a special assistant to President Nixon in 1969, and became his head speechwriter in 1970. He was director of the United States Information Agency from 1972 to 1977. Keogh wrote two books, "This Is Nixon" in 1956, and "President Nixon and the Press" in 1972. Keogh died on May 10, 2006 in Greenwich, Connecticut at the age of 89.
James Keogh | Biography
Hastings is alleged to have said that he did not want any more "bloody Lady Hitler" in the newspaper. Diana and the newspaper resumed their relationship following Hastings' retirement in 2001. She wrote the foreword and introduction of "Nancy Mitford: A Memoir" by Harold Acton. She produced her own two books of memoirs: "A Life of Contrasts" (1977, Hamish Hamilton), and "Loved Ones" (1985). The latter is a collection of pen portraits of close relatives and friends such as the writer Evelyn Waugh among others. In 1980, she released "The Duchess of Windsor", a biography.
Diana Mitford | Writing
The author casts Nixon as the "King of the Orthogonians", who would play upon the growing resentments of "Orthogonians" nationwide (Nixon's "silent majority") to electoral success. Besides ensuring his re-election, however, Nixon's political and social maneuvering also created a deep rift in American society that persisted into the 1970s and on through the end of the century, polarizing the United States. Perlstein also presents a broader overview of the cultural and political turmoil in 1960s America, including the 1968 Democratic Convention, but, as the book ends with Nixon's reelection in 1972, only peripherally covers Watergate.
Nixonland | Summary
He was the author of an extensive personal diary for the years 2000–2002 entitled "Suddenly Sixty-Five". He was the author of a political novel—he called it a fable—about the corruption caused by large campaign contributions, lobbyists, and pollsters entitled "It Takes A Villain". His close friend, the former Congressman and Mayor of Philadelphia, William J. Green, III, eulogized him as "Thomas Jefferson without the contradictions" and said of his cultural leadership "he gave and he gave and he gave until he just couldn't give any more."
Dick Doran | Author
He wrote a number of books on Africa politics, history, and biography, for adults and children.
Richard Seymour Hall | Books
Analyzes Ronald Reagan's style of government, mostly through the character of his wife and other handlers. Didion says that the Reagans maintained, in their years in Sacramento and Washington, the sheltered, disconnected lifestyle of "actors on location," living in housing provided by the studio. A refrain in the piece is the public-relations language of Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, putting words to the president's grandiose but vague political vision: "Where brave heroes "blank", and during those terrible last days "blank"...""First appeared in 1989 in The New York Review of Books."
After Henry (book) | "In the Realm of the Fisher King"
Van Fleet, 1953; Herbert Pulitzer in New York, March 1954; American politician and US Vice President (and later President) Richard M. Nixon talking to politician, author and editor Clare Boothe Luce and US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington DC, March 1956; Chinese Pei-Chao Li, separated from husband for seven years due to US immigration restrictions, 1956; American artist and sculptor Alexander Calder with a maquette of his mobile for Idlewild International Airport, 1957; the barmaid at a restaurant where Rudolf Invanovich Abel and his agents met, August 1957; American businessman and Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus Catholic fraternal organization Luke E.
Walter Sanders | Portraits
Imagine: A writer who is already one of the best, taking risks and finding ways to be better."Card, Orson Scott. "Books to Look For." "Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". Cornwall CT: Mercury Press. Feb. 1988: 19. Card does take Bishop to task for the author's characterization of Richard Nixon, calling it a "caricature" and a "stock character of a madman." "Locus" reviewer Tom Whitmore calls the book "a masterful pastiche" and "…the closest thing to a classic Dick sf novel anyone has ever done."Whitmore, Tom. ""Locus" Looks at More Books." "Locus". Oakland CA: Locus Publications. Nov. 1987: 21. Gerald Jonas in the "New York Times" writes "Mr.
Michael Bishop (author) | "Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas"
Harris said in a National Public Radio interview that politicians like Lang and Blair, particularly when they have been in office a long time, become divorced from everyday reality, read little, and end up with a limited outlook. When it comes to writing their memoirs, they therefore tend to have all the more need of a ghostwriter. Harris hinted at a third and far less obvious allusion hidden in the novel's title, which may also have served as the motive for writing the novel in the first place. Blair, he said, had in effect been a ghostwriter of sorts to President George W.
The Ghost (novel) | Lang and Blair
Zelikow has co-written many books. He wrote a book with Ernest May on "The Kennedy Tapes," and another with Joseph Nye and David C. King on "Why People Don’t Trust Government." Others include:
Philip D. Zelikow | Works written or co-written
A disgraced Richard Nixon is restlessly pacing in the study at his New Jersey home, in the late 1970s. Armed with a loaded revolver, a bottle of Scotch whisky and a running tape recorder, while surrounded by closed circuit television cameras, he spends the next 90 minutes recalling, with rage, suspicion, sadness and disappointment, his controversial life and career in a long monologue. Nixon's monologue often veers into tangents, often concerning his family, the people who made him powerful or the people who took him out of power. Nixon recalls his mother fondly, Dwight Eisenhower with hatred, Henry Kissinger with condescension and John F.
Secret Honor | Plot
In 1986, the editors of "Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine" parodied her as "Elizabeth Drone," author of a "Giant Postcard From Washington." In 1989, "Spy magazine" labeled her as the "author of too-frequent Washington columns." In 2014, President Richard Nixon's former aide Frank Gannon disputed Drew’s “blithe assertions that Nixon was a Dilantin-addicted alcoholic,” arguing that they were “as untrue as they are ugly.”
Elizabeth Drew | Criticism
Mark Feeney (born 1957) is an arts writer for "The Boston Globe". He is the author of the book "Nixon at the Movies" (2004).
Mark Feeney | Introduction
In 1967, a novel based on the series, with significant changes to the personalities of the characters and the design of the ship, was published by Pyramid Books, and written by Dave Van Arnam and Ted White (as "Ron Archer"). A scene in the book correctly predicts Richard Nixon winning the Presidency after Lyndon Johnson.
Lost in Space | Novel
Sandbrook's first book, a biography of the American politician and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, proved extremely controversial on its publication in the United States in 2004. Writing for H-Net, the interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the humanities and social sciences, David Stebenne said the book "describes McCarthy's life and work with outstanding grace and clarity", and was "a very fine study of a significant figure that serious students of American postwar history will want to consult." McCarthy himself called the book "almost libellous". In 2005, Sandbrook published "Never Had It So Good", a history of Britain from the Suez Crisis to The Beatles, 1956–63.
Dominic Sandbrook | Authorship
Harrington has been "squarely" credited by at least one verifiable source with ghostwriting all the books published by the child of another United States president, Elliott Roosevelt and then, allegedly, those published by Donald Bain.
Margaret Truman | Writing
The novel is a "tour de force" in the genre of mixed history and fiction or rather in the writerly craft of stretching historical description to (and beyond) its accepted limits. No one seems to know more about Buchanan than Clayton/Updike, and that apparently is one reason why Clayton could never finish his Buchanan biography: he simply could not imagine his subject in any but the most intimate of terms. Writing a standard biography would have been too objectifying an act. He needs the prompt of "memories and impressions" concerning another president to get him going. Clayton also notes the way that sexual mores had changed during his lifetime, recalling that while in the 1970s, it was considered common for teachers at colleges to engage in sexual liaisons with their female students, but by the 1990s that was deemed to be totally unacceptable and even criminal behavior.
Memories of the Ford Administration | Major themes