Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever

Battles over Conservatism in the Nixon White House Bassocantor NIXON’S WHITE HOUSE WARS documents, in great detail, the battles among top White House staff—especially the struggles for conservative causes. The author, Patrick J. Buchanan, kept detailed records and his correspondence with the president and other top officials. Richard Nixon “asked for and welcomed my missives. It became our primary means of conversation. Over the Nixon White House years, I would send him a . Five Stars Mark An honest and truthful look inside the Nixon White House.. Three Stars Vermonter Pete Interesting insight into a bygone era with some parallels to today.

Includes a bonus PDF of the Appendix, which includes handwritten notations on presidential memos.. Vice President Agnew followed by attacking the blatant bias of the media in a fiery speech authored and advocated by Buchanan. When the Watergate scandal broke, Buchanan urged the president to destroy the Nixon tapes before they were subpoenaed, and fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, as Nixon ultimately did in the "Saturday Night Massacre". In his inaugural address, Nixon held out a hand in friendship to Republicans and Democrats alike. Buchanan chronicles Nixon's historic trip to China, and describes the White House strategy that brought about Nixon's 49-state landslide victory over George McGovern in 1972. After testifying before the Watergate Committee himself, Buchanan describes the grim scene at Camp David in August 1974, when Nixon's staff concluded he could not survive. From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. Then one by one, the crises came, from the invasion of Cambodia, to the protests that killed four students at Kent State, to race riots and court ordered school busing. But by the fall of 1969, massive demonstrations in Washington and around the country had been mounted to break his presidency. In