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Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon

The Nixon crisis of 1973-74 threatened the state in ways not immediately understood. Stripped of drama & confusion, however, the problem was that the President had placed himself above the law. The nation had to decide whether that could be allowed. Theodore H. White starts this story with the last days of Richard Nixon in the White House — as those closest recognized he'd deceived them & that they must force him out. He follows the thread of manipulation back to its origin 20 years earlier & shows how the Nixon team came to see politics as war without quarter, in which the White House was a command post where ordinary rules didn't apply, where power could be used without restraint.

Let justice be done

The politics of manipulation

Poor Richard: how things work

The team: from politics to power

The White House of Richard Nixon: from style to heresy

The underground: from crime to conspiracy

Victory 1972: design for control

The tapes: a tour inside the mind of Richard Nixon

The systems respond: Spring 1973

Firestorm: Fall 1973

The question period: Winter-Spring 1974

Judgment: Summer 1974

Breach of faith

Appendix A: The articles of impeachment

Appendix B: Richard Nixon's farewell statement, 8/8/74

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 476
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780440307808
  • Characters
  • Richard Nixon
  • Settings
  • United States of America
  • Genres
  • history, politics, presidents, biography
  • Release date
  • 1985