Youth -- From RN : the memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) -- Two letters (1923 and 1924) -- "Our privileges under the Constitution" (1929) -- From the Frank Gannon interviews (1983) -- Congress -- "The ...
Ohio University professor Mattson (When America Was Great) looks back at Nixon as a whistle-stop “political salesman” in this panoramic exploration of egghead politics, Hollywood films, television ...
America’s landing on the moon now stands as such a stunning success that, 50 years later, we have trouble imagining that it could have gone terribly, tragically wrong. But in the days before the ...
From Yorba Linda to the White House, this chapter traces how Nixon’s insecurity, ambition, and Cold War worldview hardened into a politics of suspicion. It follows the pivotal moments, from the ...
This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation. Whether the Federal ...