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This eBook contains the full text of the central speeches of Nixon's resignation: his resignation speech, which was delivered on August 8, 1974, at 9:01 p.m. Eastern time from the Oval Office of the White House and was carried live on radio and television, and his remarkable impromptu farewell speech to the White House dtaff the next day. ... Read more

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Good Author, Unpleasant Subject
I always like reading Elizabeth Drew's journalism, and this book does have her signature style and depth. But I did not enjoy the book very much, maybe because the subject itself is so unpleasant: Richard Nixon was a driven, miserable man, unfit to be President, however brilliant a political operator he was.

Drew goes into useful detail about what happened around Watergate--we tend to forget the details--as well as Nixon's Checkers speech and other milestones. It does a very good job of portraying his dirty tricks, the way he defamed his political opponents with lies and innuendo. One thing I hadn't known was how truly bad he was on civil rights and other liberal issues--he is sometimes thought of as the "liberal Republican"--dragging his feet on legislation and trying to scuttle it behind the scenes, and, when he couldn't get away with that, taking credit for its passage.

The book chronicles Nixon's tireless attempts to make a comeback after his disgrace and resignation, and to go down in history as a statesman; and those efforts may prove to be partially successful. But the picture we come away with is of a very disturbed, unbalanced man, who had to be hidden away and protected by his underlings from causing great harm to the nation during his periodic breakdowns while he was presiding over the nation.

Less than Flattering Look at Nixon
Given only this book to read, one might assume that Richard Nixon was a crazed man that accomplished little good for his country.While Nixon is a very flawed character in history, and some of his actions can be described as criminal.The tone of this addition to The American Presidents series shows a marked level of bias and gross errors that other reviewers have noted.A positive aspect of Nixon is rarely shown.

Included in this brief biography are some facts that I did not know despite having read several books on Nixon and Watergate.However, the overall lean of the book brings in to question the truthfulness of these facts.A book that makes accusations of chemical dependency loses credibility when it makes larger ommissions and factual errors.Nixon was in fact weak on domestic policy.However, he was quite savvy in his foreign policy which comes easier to most presidents.Still, the author gives Nixon little credit for opening realtionship with China.Readers with lesser knowledge might think this is a trivial note in Nixon's presidency while he spend most of his time conjuring up scandals.

Obviously The American Presidents series is designed for school libraries more than extensive research.Still adults can enjoy the learning experience.Yet this particular book seem to have an agenda to lead readers in a negative direction.

Biased with disinformation
I don't believe I've read anything more profoundly biased and angry against President Nixon.At one point, its claimed he couldn't get out of, or end the war in, Vietnam.This is total BS because President Richard Nixon did, in fact, end the war in Vietnam! I think Drew needs to take a history course.Furthermore, I believe Richard M. Nixon may very well have been looked at today as the best president in the history of this country as he was on the path to ending the Cold War.Indeed, one must confess the possibility that had he been able to continue his term in office, he may very well have done just that! Had it not been for his mistakes with Watergate, Nixon would be looked at today with admiration.

Interesting summation of the life of Richard Nixon
I have to give Elizabeth Drew credit for taking on a nearly impossible job. She has attempted to boil down the life of Richard Nixon into a few hundred pages.Thank of all the ink that has been spilled on him during the past 30 years andI will say Ms. Drew does a decent job of portraying someone as complex as Nixon.

The book is basically by the facts and you will not find anything new or explosive in it.I didn't find it particularly partisan but then again I believe Drew went out of her way to avoid offering up anything other than the generally accepted facts.Still she is somewhat sympathetic to Nixon but still holds him accountable for what he did which was wrong.

All in all, I think this is an interesting addition to this series!

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Thirty years have passed since President Nixon's resignation, yet, the impact of the "Watergate" scandal continues to affect the institutional power of the American chief executive. Through documents and analytical essays, this timely collection places the Watergate crisis in perspective, providing a cogent and balanced analysis of the development and consequences of an event that has overshadowed Nixon's legacy and permanently altered the country's perceptions of politics. Watergate threatened the very constitutional order of the nation, and continues to this day to affect the public's attitudes about the presidency, America's political culture, the mass media's coverage of politics, the separation of powers, and the investigation of high-level misconduct in the federal government. Twelve topical essays written by presidential scholars cover these themes and examine the impact of the crisis over time. Primary source materials, including transcripts from oral interviews, Nixon's speeches, letters, the infamous Watergate tapes, excerpts from testimony and hearings in Congress, the proposed articles of impeachment, and more are all put in context with explanatory headnotes. ... Read more

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The greatest political story ever told—the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle

The Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized—even created—modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all parties involved, Theodore White crafted an almost mythic story of the battle that pitted Senator John F. Kennedy against Vice-President Richard M. Nixon—from the decisive primary battles to the history-making televised debates, the first of their kind. Magnificently detailed and exquisitely paced, The Making of the President 1960 imbues the nation's presidential election process with both grittiness and grandeur, and established a benchmark against which all new campaign reporters would measure their work. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction—and the first entry in White's influential four-volume "narrative history of American politics in action"—this classic account remains the keystone of American political journalism.

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The Making of the President is one of the world's most mysterious and complicated transactions in power. No troops mass on election day, no bands play, no clandestine conspiracies gather to strike violence at the political jugular. It is an adventure for which men have planned, plotted and calculated years before the country wakes to their ambitions. It is a pageant re-enacted every four years, in which the most squalid and the most selfless characters in American life all play a role. It is a game in which many can play, but only one can win.

A gift to my friend
A gift to my old friend who ever read few
books from the same authors.

History Joins Humanity in Legendary 1960 Election Chronicle
Senator John F. Kennedy's slim victory (less than 150,000 votes) over Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in 1960 was arguably the 20th century's most iconic.Kennedy's generation, "born in this century," linked American history and heroes with still-modern inventions of instant polling and television to face the legacy of a beloved war hero president, his formidable vice-president and eight years of their "peace and prosperity."

Theodore H. White's influential bestseller, "The Making of the President 1960," not only chronicles the primaries, speeches, strategy sessions, debates, and final tallies, but was largely where 1960's election, and its victor, began owning their singular places in U.S. history.

Beginning fittingly with Kennedy's stressful, exhilarating victory night, the book unfolds candidate strategies from primary to convention to the weeks between Bill Mazeroski's World Series-ending home run and that November 7. White is novelist, journalist and historian chronicling the Democratic torch passing from Adlai Stevenson (a reluctant if overpoweringly influential candidate) to Kennedy at the Los Angeles convention. With unprecedented access to Senator Kennedy, campaign manager Bobby Kennedy (provocatively described as a Catholic "Boston Puritan"), and their brain trusts, White sketches the candidate's vigor, intellect, and humor making him the cultural equal to icons Franklin Roosevelt and Elvis Presley.

With far less access to the then-vice president or his staff (part of Nixon's hostility to press which rose to paranoia a decade later) White's views on Nixon are observational, quotes from formal speeches or advisors speaking off-record. Eisenhower's Republican torch becomes a hot potato jumping from New York governor Nelson Rockefeller to industry captains supporting the party to what White describes as Nixon's mix of stubbornness (with a 50-state strategy), bad luck, bad TV imagery, and a touch of greed. This led Nixon to make strategically right over morally right decisions (both candidates' reaction to Dr. Martin Luther King's Georgia imprisonment weeks before the election being a watershed example.)

But for its merits describing Kennedy and Nixon's exhausting marathon to the Oval Office (and hardships of accompanying staffers and even reporters), White's most valuable chapter for today's reader is "Retrospect on Yesterday's Future." Any political science or sociology student must read White's chronicle of 1960's changing demographics:contrasts between black/white, urban/suburban, regional/ethnic ("red" and "blue" state values described spot-on without color) and, most notably, Catholic/Protestant. (Kennedy's famous speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, taking his religious and presidential responsibilities head-on, is reprinted as an appendix.)

White gives this humanity and immediacy making particular episodes (Nixon's Atlanta rally,Hubert Humphrey's long bus ride in Wisconsin and his awkward TV telethon, Kennedy's final speech as candidate in Connecticut) seem fresh and evocative. White shows 1960 slamming shut the "simpler time" many envision the 1950s to be. This not only stems from tragedies awaiting both men, but Big Media's ever-larger bytes and swallows of political discussion and drama.

Anyone wanting to understand modern American politics, strategies and motivations in place even to this year's election must start here. "The Making of the President 1960" should be required for any voter helping to elect one in 2008 and beyond.

The Beginning of a New Genre
It's not often that a journalist (or writer) starts a completely new genre of writing. That's exactly what Theodore H. White did.A journalist at the time, who had written a couple of novels and three other books, he went on to write books on the elections of 1964, 1968, 1972 and culminating with America In Search of Itself.He was recognized as one of the leading political journalists of his time.
This particular special edition differs from the original edition. First, the slipcase and interesting dust jacket.There are numerous pictures and illustrations that help tell the story and an introduction by James Reston (another respected reporter),

White begins the long and arduous process that politicians and voters go through every four years - choosing a president.From the early announcements to the final returns the book takes the reader step by step with both candidates.Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys politics or who has an interest in either John Kennedy or Richard Nixon.I also appreciate that the author does his best not to show favoritism toward either candidate. The book reads more like a novel or a mystery but is a first class piece of political journalism.

They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore
Nowadays, when a campaign book is written it amounts to little more than a collection of Newsweek articles.Theodore White's Making of the Presidency 1960 on the other hand gets into the nuts and bolts of presidential campaigns, party machinery, and voter demographics in a way not really seen anymore.It's about the big ideas that shape national elections and the individual people that make it all operate.

Given the current political process, some of the 1960 action seems quite distant.First, several candidates were aiming for a convention strategy, completely ignoring the primaries that were then far less important.Second, at one point the book mentions eight minute statements given by Kennedy and Nixon during one of their debates.Nowadays, we are lucky if a debate statement on the most important national issue lasts for more than two minutes.

The book's publication in 1961 also makes it interesting, as it leaves the reader at the threshold of the Kennedy presidency but is completely unaware of the events to follow.Not only does this include the assassination of two Kennedy brothers, but also the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1968.

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The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President Gerald Ford granted Richard M. Nixon a pardon on September 8, 1974, one month after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace. Effectively removed from the reach of prosecutors, Nixon returned to California, uncontrite and unconvicted, convinced that time would exonerate him of any wrongdoing and certain that history would remember his great accomplishments—the opening of China and the winding down of the Vietnam War—and forget his “mistake,” the “pipsqueak thing” called Watergate.

In 1977, three years after his resignation, Nixon agreed to a series of interviews with television personality David Frost. Conducted over twelve days, they resulted in twenty-eight hours of taped material, which were aired on prime-time television and watched by more than 50 million people worldwide. Nixon, a skilled lawyer by training, was paid $1 million for the interviews, confident that this exposure would launch him back into public life. Instead, they sealed his fate as a political pariah.

James Reston, Jr., was David Frost’s Watergate advisor for the interiews, and The Conviction of Richard Nixon is his intimate, behind-the-scenes account of his involvement. Originally written in 1977 and published now for the first time, this book helped inspire Peter Morgan’s hit play Frost/Nixon. Reston doggedly researched the voluminous Watergate record and worked closely with Frost to develop the interrogation strategy. Even at the time, Reston recognized the historical importance of the Frost/Nixon interviews; they would result either in Nixon’s de facto conviction and vindication for the American people, or in his exoneration and public rehabilitation in the hands of a lightweight. Focused, driven, and committed to exposing the truth, Reston worked tirelessly to arm Frost with the information he needed to force Nixon to admit his culpability.

In The Conviction of Richard Nixon, Reston provides a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall account of his involvement in the Nixon interviews as David Frost’s Watergate adviser. Written in 1977 immediately following these celebrated television interviews and published now for the first time, The Conviction of Richard Nixon explains how a British journalist of waning consequence drove the famously wily and formidable Richard Nixon to say, in an apparent personal epiphany, “I have impeached myself.”


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If the President does it, then it's not illegal
If the President does it, then it's not illegal...so intoned Richard Nixon to David Frost less than three years after his forced resignation from the Presidency.

In this tight presentation, Frost researcher James Reston Jr. takes us through through those tenous times when Frost and Nixon prepared for and did their now famous interview.

For anyone who's seen the movie Frost/Nixon, they alredy know the outline:

Nixon wanted to do the interview because he wanted to make a public comeback and well, he also wanted the money (which according to Reston ended being over a million dollars).

For his part, Frost wanted to do the interview because it was great spectacle and if handled properly would be an enormous coup for him (Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame had also been in the running for the honor).

In this way, the book has an added drama that we really wouldn't expect.

In his early interviews apparently Frost was unprepared and too willing to yield the stage to Nixon.

His research staff were afraid that the Watergate part of the interview would be equally lukewarm and that Nixon, the master of the political comeback, would be able to walk right over Frost straight back into the public eye.

But ever the showman, Frost, proved his detractors wrong, studied hard and used the research of his staff to effectively skewer Nixon.

The climax of course was when Nixon offered his now famous mea culpe, admitting having let down the nation.

Though I geniunely enjoyed reading this book, it didn't really give me anything I wouldn't have learned through a careful watching of Frost/Nixon but maybe after all that was an important thing to learn.Sometimes -- maybe if the story is simple enough -- the movies can get it right and in so doing not only produce great art but acceptable history as well.

Boring and Self Serving
Having followd the entire Watergate hearings in the 70's and read 4 subsequent books, I was expecting an exiting read - WRONG. The author exposes his bias right out the gate by slamming Bush's decition to go to war "under false pretenses".Then he proceeds to mock Colson's religious convictions.From there it's downhill all the way with most of the narrative outlining his personal brilliance.Too bad, the subject matter itself is interesting but history should be left to historians and not journalists.Luckly I only spent $4.00 on the book!

(TV) History in the Making
Having watched way too much of the TV coverage for this year's election, I have gotten increasingly annoyed not so much with the politicians' attempts to BS people but with how little interviewers and reporters seemed to be interested in calling politicians on those attempts. As a bitterly needed lesson in what quality journalism can do - and can do on TV, that much-maligned medium! - to put politicians on the spot, I can't think of a better book to read than historian James Reston's THE CONVICTION OF RICHARD NIXON. The book, which reads like a thriller (so no surprise it's the basis for an upcoming Ron Howard movie), is Reston's brilliant chronicle about how he helped British uber-TV host David Frost nail Richard Nixon on Watergate during the famous Frost/Nixon interviews of 1977. How Reston did it? The old-fashioned way: through dogged and persistent research; by ignoring the soundbites and looking at the facts instead; and, most of all, by having an independent and critical mind. Read it and be inspired to speak truth to power!

Gripping slice of history
I saw the wonderful play "Frost/Nixon," which is based on this book, and I loved it - very funny, totally compelling, with several great moments of pure theater. But the book is more satisfying, on many levels. For one, it's just a great story -- Reston knows how to keep your attention, and the quest to nail Nixon on camera is told like a courtroom thriller: will they or won't they convict him? And as well, Nixon is such a bizarre human being that even his throwaway comments are creepy and revealing (he seems to have been somewhat obsessed with "fornicating") - but he's a brilliant, wily strategist, which has its own fascinations. Beyond all that, THE CONVICTION OF RICHARD NIXON is a telling comment on how the boundaries of acceptable behavior have changed over the last few decades: Nixon's wrongdoings seem almost quaint compared to the kinds of things that are happening today. But it all began here (at least publicly), and Reston nails it - just like he helped nail Nixon the first time.

Highly recommended.

Boring
I was really anxious to listen to this audiobook but I just could not maintain any real interest in the storyline.I thought it was hard to follow.If the actual interviews are on on the CD I didn't recognize them but I couldn't take anymore 1/2 through CD 3.I wanted to rehear the actual interview as it was broadcast.But there was way too much extraneous material that I found boring.Perhaps if I read the book it would have been better.Since I wanted to "listen" rather than "read" the fact that I disliked the narrator made my experience even worse as he just seemed to drone on.For my taste, the audio book was very disappointing and not recommended. ... Read more

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In February 1972, Richard Nixon became the first American president to visit China. His historic one-hour meeting with Mao Zedong ended the breach between the United States and China, which had lasted since the Communist victory in 1949. Just as significantly, the visit changed the face of international relations from a bipolar Cold War to a three-sided struggle involving the Soviet Union, China, and the United States.

Drawing on newly available material and interviews with all major survivors, MacMillan re-examines that fateful week. Authoritative and written with great narrative verve, Nixon in China is a landmark work of history. ... Read more

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Made my skin crawl
I slogged through every page of this wretched hagiography. I picked it up from the bargain bin for $5 thinking it might prove amusing; instead it was infuriating. I've spent a lifetime fine-tuning an aversion to the 37th president of the United States. I've read dozens of books about his life; this one was by far the worst. Lies and B.S. from cover to cover - the ultimate Nixon apology. I feel sorry for the poor helpless trees that were cut down in order to print this garbage. Every copy should be gathered up and burned. I'm a fierce defender of the First Amendment, but I have my limits.

O Woe Future Readers
This book is nothing more than a love affair between the subject and its' author. The only part of Nxon's life that wasn't included in this 1057 page farce was the day 'tricky dick" walked on water.How this author can re-write the history of a man who killed 30,000 troops just so he could visit China, and lie and subvert the truth on Watergate so he could be re-elected is just so so sad.The fact that Nixon accepted a peace treaty only weeks before his re-election should say it all.Each and every time the author actually writes that Nixon may have made a mistake he immediately points out the same error in judgment of past presidents or world leaders.At one point he even compares Nixon's underhanded behavior to the Pope.The truly sad part about this book is that 50 years from now some unsuspecting high school senior will read this book for a school assignment and actually believe what is written here.

Richard M. Nixon
I bought this book by Conrad Black because he did such an outstanding job on the life of FDR. Again he scores big with this again lengthy but not always well researched volume on Richard Nixon. Black is much more opinionated and biased in this book by sweeping some of Nixons faults and quirks aside with not very well thought out or researched opinions that seem to be of a personal nature. Black does make good points that much of Nixon's work was good for the country but seems to have a favorable bias towards Nixon and an unfavorable bias against his predecessors except Ike. Black lets his politics out a little too much in this one. It was a bit surprising after his fine work on FDR. None the less a great read very informative and another good work by Black over all.

A compelling figure made even more compelling
My first involvement in political affairs was, at the age of 5, urging my mother to vote for Nixon, as I made my way off to school.Since then, Nixon has loomed large in the landscape of Orange County.We all knew he lived in San Clemente, but he was a specter: he made few appearances and was overshadowed by Reagan's influence.Reagan, of course, defines California Republicanism, but Nixon shaped the California Republican party before Reagan appeared on the scene.Nixon represented the scrappy, lower-middle class strivers, seeking recognition on a public stage.Nixon was their spokesman, the underdog who could pound his finger on Kruschev's chest, while they busily built their businesses in Whittier and Downey, while others worked for the aerospace companies in El Segundo and Long Beach.Thus, it was with great enjoyment that I read the first 500 pages, which spoke about a California, which I knew little about: the immediate post-War era.And, it is surprising that a Lord from the English parliament, like Conrad Black, would be so passionate about re-creating this era in Nixon's life.In short, what would seem the least compelling about Nixon's life, his move from local congressman, to Senator, to 8 years in the VP role, is the most compelling part of the Nixon story, and gives a greater appreciation of his intellect and humanity.

It has been commented upon that this is a "rehabilitative biography," and that Conrad Black tries very hard to "clean up" Nixon's sinister image.While Black does comment on a few mistakes, which Nixon made, in foreign policy and domestic issues, he does not admit to Nixon having any ethical lapses, at least until Watergate.In fact, if one is to believe Black, Nixon is nearly the cleanest politician of the era, especially in comparison to Kennedy and Johnson.I am unable to judge this.It goes against so much of what I've been taught.But, I am willing to give Nixon the benefit of the doubt after reading Black's thorough defense of the man.

Weak, boring read, completely biased
I had just read the Harry S. Truman biography by David McCullough, a fascinating read, and I grabbed this for an inside look at Nixon.To me, the beginning of this book gets very lost in trying to detail every little piece of information and data, without really telling a story.The Truman biography was extremely interesting and kept me captivated throughout.I keep getting lost in the minute detail the Nixon book brings to minor details.There is a great deal of information here; it is just not presented in an interesting or enlightening manner, and I labored through the first half of this lengthy book.

What became more disturbing to me was the biased slant the book takes in the second half.Mr. Black paints a picture of Nixon being one of the greatest presidents that the US has ever had.According to the author, Nixon had a hand in helping each president following him take office.He had nothing to do with Watergate and had no idea of what it was; he was just trying to support his people.It literally becomes a farce as he paints Nixon as one of the greatest politicians of all time and never once agreeing that he did anything wrong except try and support the people on his staff.

He goes on to suggest that every foreign leader and nation loved Nixon and that they could not understand why Watergate was a big deal.According to the author, the US was the only country who did not like Nixon and Nixon was a chief player in every political event following his resignation from office.I had a very tough time with this book as I did not find it plausible or realistic.There was absolutely no objectivity; it was a complete sales job on why Nixon should be revered as one of the great politicians of all time.He even goes so far to say that aside from Thomas Jefferson, no other president was as popular or as effective as Nixon was following his departure from office.The author never seems to grasp the fact that Nixon was forced to resign the office or face impeachment.I am surprised that a package of Conrad Black Kool Aid was not included with the book.
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Should be required reading
The names, the places, the incidents were all in the wind during the 60's and 70's.Feldstein's book makes it all real in a way it was not when this young person lived through it.It is an amazing story which painfully focuses the reality of today's media vs. government mentality.The sad legacy of the Nixon years is our virtually complete distrust of our government.An excellent, necessary book.

A Must Read
I cannot say enough good things about this book.I recall the events described, which took place in the early 1970s, but did not appreciate the gravity of them.The high level of corruption by Richard Nixon and his men--Erlichman, Haldeman, Mitchell, etc. include payoffs, quid pro quos, homophobia, anti-Semitism and other despicable conduct.Watergate would overshadow these other scandals of Nixon's presidency.Thus, this book will shock you into how many misdeeds were committed due to the evil inclinations of an emotionally unbalanced president.

Readable, fair and not without empathy
This detailed portrait of one of the longest and ugliest feuds in Washington and its impact on today's politics and media is a page-turner. Feldstein's book is a rematch of sorts featuring two old warriors, and Nixon still comes out looking the worst. But Jack Anderson takes a pretty good beating, too. I thought I knew Anderson's story - and Nixon's. Not entirely, it turns out. "Poisoning the Press" shows a side of Anderson I hadn't seen in the late muckraker's own books. And as far as Nixon goes, Feldstein offers even more reasons to view Nixon as a deeply flawed man brought down by his own moral failings. The conversations that went on in the Oval Office - many are detailed for the first time by the author via the infamous tapes - are chilling because of the setting and the players. (Does anyone still argue that Nixon didn't know what was going on with Watergate and other criminal activities within the White House?) Anderson was never a saint, but I was surprised that he was corruptible, at least in the journalistic sense. In many ways Anderson and Nixon shared the fatal flaw of believing that they were doing right even when they were doing wrong. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Humanist, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1072 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: From Watergate to downing street: lying for war.(Up Front: news and opinion from independent minds)(War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death)
Author: Norman Solomon
Publication: The Humanist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
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The definitive account of a bizarre chapter in national politics, told with a historian's breadth of knowledge by a journalist who was there.

Nixon and Agnew were an odd couple whose political love affair disintegrated over five years into a calamitous denouement. Agnew's divisive rhetoric skyrocketed his popularity, but he grew weary of exclusion from the Nixon inner circle. Nixon, concluding that Agnew was not the man to succeed him, conspired to dump him in 1972 and later to remove him from the line of presidential succession. But before Nixon's presidency collapsed in Watergate, a tawdry scandal of payoffs to Agnew in the White House accomplished the job.

Jules Witcover, a leading political reporter of that period, wrote political biographies of both men and coauthored the acclaimed account of the Agnew resignation, A Heartbeat Away. Now, with three decades ofperspective, a trove of new material including Nixon's White House tapes and interviews with close Nixon-Agnew associates, Witcover has written a captivating narrative that reveals how the foibles, pettiness and weaknesses of each man destroyed that marriage, and ultimately their careers. Very Strange Bedfellows' revealing look into the flawed and fascinating Nixon presidency will be catnip to anyone interested in American politics and American history. ... Read more

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Great information but with a liberal slant
As one who has read many books on the Nixon presidency, I have never come across anything that really explained the reasons behind the strange Nixon/Agnew relationship, or why Agnew was picked in the first place.Because Nixon held such pride in his role as Vice President under Eisenhower (see Six Crises) I always thought it strange that he did not value the position in his own Administration.This book does a great job of telling me everything I wanted to know, with great insight on Agnew and the Nixon/Connally relationship that was such a factor.
However, it would have been nice to read such a book from someone more objective.The author cannot make it out of the Foreward without a little Bush/Cheney bashing.His liberal bias is obvious, as is his personal hatred of Nixon, and he can't help himself in letting it show several times in the book.

Well Written Hatchet Job
Jules Witcover is an excellent writer who, unfortunately, sometimes lets his political and philosphical beliefs get in the way.There are various instances in this book where he is just as intent on criticizing conservatives and the Republican Party as criticizing the two main characters -- Nixon and Agnew.

It is obvious that he is and was no fan of President Nixon.In some respect, despite his dislike for Agnew there are places in the book where it seemed Witcover was sympathetic with him.One senses that Agnew, for all his flaws, wanted to be an important member of the Nixon Administration while Nixon and his staff grew to dislike him and tried to relegate him to obscurity.It is no secret that Nixon became enamored with John Connally and would have preferred Connally as his successor.Witcover sees a tormented vice president who wanted to be so much more than what the president would let him be.And then, skeletons came out of the closet to doom the vice president.

Two things stood out that keeps me from rating this higher.First, if Witcover would have left his biases out of the book -- or been more subtle with his biases -- it would have given his account more credibility.As it is, his little digs at not just Nixon and Agnew but the Republican Party and conservatives in general, gives this book more of a flavor of a hatchet job.

Second, and this may seem trivial, but there are no pictures.Other than the cover jacket there are none.Pictures really add a lot to a historical book such as this.I grew up in that era and remember well how the main characters -- Nixon, Agnew, Connally, Haldeman, Erlichman, etc -- looked.But to younger people, the failure to match a face with the people being written about detracts from the book.There could have been pictures of Nixon in the 1968 campaign, the 1968 GOP convention, Nixon and Agnew campaigning in both 1968 and 1972, Agnew giving speeches during the first administration, the investigators and culprits who destroyed Agnew in 1973, Agnew leaving the federal court in Baltimore as a former vice president, both men in their later years, etc.There were so many possibilities of where pictures would have added so much to this book.But there were none.

The Morning After
Recently I read an article by Ben Stein about the sudden outpouring of books about Richard Nixon and his presidency.For the most part Stein focuses on Robert Dallek's excellent tome "Nixon and Kissinger" as well as Margaret MacMillan's somewhat tedious but thorough work, "Nixon and Mao." He referenced this book in passing and referred to Mr. Witcover as, "a third rate journalist."I beg to differ.

In examining the relationship between President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew, Witcover carefully examines one of the most overlooked aspects of his presidency.Witcover clearly draws on research he had done for previous books about Nixon and Agnew, but manages to distinguish this book from other Nixon books.

In the grand scheme of the Nixon presidency, Spiro Agnew is typically an afterthought as the focus usually falls on Watergate, Kissinger, the Vietnam War, the SALT agreement and opening relations with communist China.The book quickly makes clear that Agnew played a minor role, if any, in policy decisions.Witcover is at his best when he explores issues such as Nixon's own self-loathing and paranoia, which clearly fed into his decision to put Agnew on the '68 ticket. Mr. Whitcover also paints an interesting picture of Agnew's ability to offend an entire room in less than three sentences.And while he may have been far more elegant than George W. Bush in his ability to articiulate his ideas, it is also clear nearly ALL of his memorable soundbites (such as his reference to the press as "nattering nabobs of negativism")to William Safire and Pat Buchanan. Witcover's analysis and research makes also makes plain the irony of Nixon's treatment of Agnew, considering Nixon's own gripes about his limited role as Ike's VP.

But perhaps the most interesting and unique aspect of this book is the backstory of Nixon's relationship with John Connelly, and his desire to unite with Connelly (then still a Democrat) and start a third party that would shake up American politics as we know it.Nixon's desire to push Agnew off the 72 ticket and replace him with Connelly is well examined and documented by Mr. Witcover, who paints Connelly as one of the few people in Washington that Nixon was in awe of.

We all know how it ended, with Agnew's resignation, Ford's ascension to the VP-slot, and Nixon's own downfall.But if you are interested in a fresh take on an often forgotten chapter of the Nixon presidency, you can't do much better than this book.

Deja Vu, Jules?
It seems that Mr. Whitcover has covered this before in two previous books.As a previous reviewer said, this is a hatchet job on two of the most misunderstood people to hold the two highest offices in the United States.Yes, they both certainly had their faults and deserved their eventual fates, but there was a lot more to the both of them and Whitcover misses it all.He just simply re hashes the obvious faults and does no other searching.Agnew for one is in dire need of a serious study of his Vice Presidency.

Hatchet Job
Witcover has made a career of hate filled attacks on RN. This book is a cut and paste job with little new to offer. ... Read more

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It's time to revisit Watergate. In this compelling reexamination, Liebovich draws extensively from newly available sources, including recently released Nixon Oval Office tapes, FBI reports, and personal reminiscences of cover-up leader John Dean. Liebovich sheds new light on the Nixon administration's extensive foul play, zeal to battle and manipulate the press, scandalous miring, and eventual political disgrace. ... Read more

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An exciting e-format containing 27 video clips taken directly from the CBS news archive of a brilliant, best-selling account of the Nixon era by one of America’s most talented young historians.

Between 1965 and 1972 America experienced a second civil war. Out of its ashes, the political world we know today was born.

Nixonland begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots-one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater seemed to have heralded a permanent liberal consensus. The next year scores of liberals were thrown out of Congress, America was more divided than ever-and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Six years later, President Nixon, harvesting the bitterness and resentment borne of that blood and fire, was reelected in a landslide even bigger than Johnson's, and the outlines of today's politics of red-and-blue division became already distinct.

Cataclysms tell the story of Nixonland:

• Angry blacks burning down their neighborhoods, while suburbanites defend home and hearth with shotguns.

• The civil war over Vietnam, the assassinations, the riot at the Democratic National Convention.

• Richard Nixon acceding to the presidency pledging a new dawn of national unity--and governing more divisively than any before him.

• The rise of twin cultures of left- and right-wing vigilantes, Americans literally bombing and cutting each other

down in the streets over political differences.

•And, finally, Watergate, the fruit of a president who rose by matching his own anxieties and dreads with those of an increasingly frightened electorate--but whose anxieties and dreads produced a criminal conspiracy in the Oval Office.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008: How did we go from Lyndon Johnson's landslide Democratic victory in 1964 to Richard Nixon's equally lopsided Republican reelection only eight years later? The years in between were among the most chaotic in American history, with an endless and unpopular war, riots, assassinations, social upheaval, Southern resistance, protests both peaceful and armed, and a "Silent Majority" that twice elected the central figure of the age, a brilliant politician who relished the battles of the day but ended them in disgrace. In Nixonland Rick Perlstein tells a more familiar story than the one he unearthed in his influential previous book, Before the Storm, which argued that the stunning success of modern conservatism was founded in Goldwater's massive 1964 defeat. But he makes it fresh and relentlessly compelling, with obsessive original research and a gleefully slashing style--equal parts Walter Winchell and Hunter S. Thompson--that's true to the times. Perlstein is well known as a writer on the left, but his historian's empathies are intense and unpredictable: he convincingly channels the resentment and rage on both sides of the battle lines and lets neither Nixon's cynicism nor the naivete of liberals like New York mayor John Lindsay off the hook. And while election-year readers will be reminded of how much tamer our times are, they'll also find that the echoes of the era, and its persistent national divisions, still ring loud and clear. --Tom Nissley ... Read more

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Up to a point, a dazzling new history of the 1960s-- and now
Long ago I had read enough Nixon/Watergate books for a lifetime, and probably enough about the 1960s, but for its first half Nixonland is a thrilling new take on the era because of the perspective it takes-- Nixon in exile, relentlessly (and unmistakably brilliantly) plotting his return to power, ruthlessly sabotaging LBJ on Vietnam and civil rights, nimbly exploiting the rise of the silent majority while keeping deniability about support for its most racist and unsavory elements (George Wallace had those locked up), carefully negotiating his way around rivals such as Ronald Reagan and Nelson Rockefeller so as to ensure that if they ever had their moment, it wouldn't be 1968.It's as compelling as watching Michael Corleone scheme his way around the Mafia world, but what gives it resonance-- makes it not merely another damn Nixon book-- is that it's not really about Nixon, but about Nixon as the perfect reflection of the way the times are changing and becoming more reactionary, which he in turn understands better than anyone how to exploit.It sounds complicated-- Nixon is the mirror of the silent majority which was the mirror of the hippie/peace movement-- but it makes for a brilliant perspective in practice.

Then Nixon is elected and the book settles in for a day by day, reactive and fairly jaundiced account of the Nixon administration, and something is lost-- the rest of America, actually.There's a great story to be told about how conservatism evolved during the 1970s completely under mass media radar, culminating in Reagan's election when it appeared seemingly out of nowhere, and the story would fit Perlstein's earlier themes about how blindsided 60s liberals were, but it's only half told here.And tales of infighting with Walt Hickel and Melvin Laird don't really seem all that exciting by comparison.(Maybe there's another Perlstein book on the way, about conservatism in the Reagan era, that will cover all this.)

Still, I can't say I can think of a better book on this time, because so many are still caught up in the ideological fights of the time and unable to see clearly.Perlstein is clearly liberal, and his portrait of Nixon is tinged with brimstone (did he really do nothing in office that wasn't two-faced and paranoid?), but even so, this has the feel of a fresh and clear-eyed take on the era.And on ours; it was impossible to read it and not be struck by how much LBJ's collapse in support resembled Obama's from 2008 to 2010, and for many of the same reasons.Those who hurl accusations of racism at the Tea Party should read this to see what racism actually sounds like in all its ugliness, but there's no doubt that the middle class revolt in '66-8 and the present one had roots in the same thing-- rebellion against big-government elites who were willing for OTHER people to make any sacrifice, including of the value of their homes and their sons in war, for what they thought was right.And if Nixon went from brilliant campaigner to insulated live-and-die-by-the-news-cycle type, well, he's not the last president to do so.It's one of the best books you could read on the present, too-- and even a hopeful one, since it reminds how much more peaceful our politics are even at their loudest and meanest, compared to the Summer of Love's.

The title says it all
The author does a great job detailing the influence of Richard Nixon on our popular culture and political and economic landscape.The continuing impact of Nixon on the United States and global politics is a major focus of this book.This thesis is well-written and effectively argued.Highly recommended.

Richard Nixon: Act Three of "The Real Greatest Generation"
My mother sent me this book last year. I've read 1/3 of this book so far and I got to tell you I've read things about the 60's that no one has ever told. The sad parts about this book is the fact that the author had to say the 'm' word about John F. Kennedy and that is martyr, which raises the question about if he was killed because he opened his mouth during the 1960 campaign that he was Catholic. The other sad part comes when Mr. Perlstein writes about the incidents in 1967 in which Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamera (both were chosen of those positions by Kennedy) got insulted by college students over Vietnam; and it's likely that when the maylays were over they were saying the same thing that I say about JFK: 'Why did he have to die?'

Then there's the heart of the story: Richard Nixon. The author takes the reader on a journey on how he lost two of his brothers, trying to please his parents, how he got into politics, trying to save his vice-president spot, and the startling fact that he wanted to run for president again in 1964 (two years after quitting politics after losing the California governor spot) as he told Republicans not to choose Barry Goldwater but him because he would be embarrassed in the fall. As fate would have it the party ignored "Tricky Dick" figuring that he was done and Goldwater suffered one of the worst presidental election defeats in American history. I get chills everytime I see that cover photo of Nixon considering that I think I am seeing Obama consdering of what kind of prediciment he is in right now.
Above all "Nixonland" is a great book. Oh yes, the title is referring to the World War II people that wanted revenge (Nixon) and what the Baby Boomers wanted revolution (Land). And you know what you get? The Generation Gap.

Petty People Trying to Be Great
No one used his sense of injured feelings to better effect than Richard Nixon. Life was hard and by continuing to harp on this sense of being cheated in life, despite winning the presidency, Nixon connected with whole hosts of bitter and angry white Americans who were convinced at the high water mark of the post World War II boom that life had dealt them a bad hand as well.This phenomenally successful formula is what governs the dynamic of American politics to this very day. Nixon may have been dead for more than ten years, but we are still living in Nixonland.
The book Nixonland is one of the most outstanding works dealing with the implications of the 37th president on US political culture. This is epic history on a grand scale, and the innate pettiness of its subject does nothing to diminish the outstanding efforts of its author, Rick Perlstein. Here is a politician choosing to do the wrong thing at the right time in a period of unprecedented social change which is still having an impact on the current state of play in American politics.

The most immediate social problem which Nixon exploited was the growing racialthat characterized the late 1960s.It was one thing to have African Americans voting, but another to have them in one's schools or as neighbors. One of Nixon's aides, Kevin Phillips, was responsible for articulating the strategy that would be successfully employed not only by Nixon, but by his Republican and Democratic successors down to the present day.

"From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats." (Kevin Phillips `The Coming Republican Majority 1969)

While politics have become far more secretive since Nixon's day, no one would be so bold as to state a cynical strategy like this now, the approach Phillips outlined that Nixon employed to win the White House likely informs the strategy taken on a whole host of issues from the environment, abortion, gun control and the so-called culture war issues ever since then.The difference between now and 1969 when this was published was that the US political elites did not think that their target audience could read and so a statement such as this could and would be published. They still don't read, unless it confirms their world view, but discretion is the order of the day in the 21st century.

Nixon's transition from the person who worked to free Martin Luther King from jail in 1960 (all the Kennedys did was to call Mrs. King-nice by Reverend King was still in jail after the call was over)to front man for respectable racism and state's rights is an interesting one.No politician makes such a profound adjustment without a reason and Perlstein examines this one in detail. Nixon's biggest problem in 1964 was the lack of a political base.He had been vice president for 8 years and in the process lost some of the influence he had in California in the late 40s-50s. It should not be forgotten that the Nixon of this period was so influential that he could move against favorite son Earl Warren and swing that state's votes to Eisenhower in 1952. For this act he was awarded the position of vice president.This is how things were done then and are still done now. Eisenhower never did like Nixon and had he been able to send his vice president on an extended good will mission for his entire 8 years in office, he would have been delighted. A Nixon defeat for the California governor's race in 1962 to Edmund Brown did nothing to help matters and in 1966 Ronald Reagan showed that he could be a formidable rival for support in Nixon's home state.

Nixon apparently did not care for the west coast, really he spent his whole life trying to avoid living there, preferring the cosmopolitan conveniences of New York City, statements to his supporters to the contrary.Though resident in New York during the 1960s, former rival Nelson Rockefeller was the master of that state.

The white south after the passage of the 1965 Civil Rights act was made to order for Nixon.Despite all the pieces of federal legislation guaranteeing equal rights for African Americans, asking to use a restroom in Mississippi, walking down a street, or trying to be served in a restaurant could be hazardous to one's health if one was not white. The "Negro revolution was denounced on the floor of the US Senate. George Wallace was on the march. All that was needed was for someone who could command the nomination of one of the national parties to channel these fears into political success and no one could scare an electorate quite like Nixon. Ancient troglodytes like Strom Thurmond found themselves courted in Richard Nixon's Republican Party after having been read out by the Democrats.One wonders what Nixon would have made of Thurmond's illegitimate daughter if perhaps he did not know from sources like J. Edger Hoover?"Race mixing" as it was known was something Nixon deeply disapproved of, urging that abortion be encouraged in such cases.
Racial riots in the 1960s sharpened the divide between the old style Democratic liberals who created the Middle Class and the Middle Class itself which was fixated on the excesses of the prevailing youth culture, riots, pornography and filthy speech. The failure to focus on economic issues between 1968-2008 was part of its undoing particularly in small towns and communities who had their economic livelihood destroyed while the denizens were stupefied by Robert Maplethorpe Art Shows among other things. The hand of the post World War II elites is generally quicker than the eye.

This division between the public and its servants allowed for Nixon to make his celebrated comeback in 1966-8. Gag writers were hired off the Jack Parr show and thoughtful strategists were brought in to make Nixon look like a statesman.This is at the beginning of the end of short-lived consensus on Civil Rights that existed up until the summer of 1965.Civil Rights Acts had been passed in previous years, but the nightly images of burning and looting were made to order for a Nixon comeback and all that this portended for the dividing of the United States.While the significant events of the previous decades, the Depression, World War II, the immediate post war world and the Kennedy Assassination, even the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 had united most of the country (the non-mean spirited and racist sections), what happens next is a series of angry people seeking revenge for slights both real and imagined. Part of this was economic, but it was also the repeated failure of the national leaders to live up to expectations and a desire to escape the consequences.

The popular rage fueled by changing social values and a radical restructuring of America's race relations tapped into the core of Nixon's psyche. One wonders just how many people were as angry as Nixon for the circumstances of their birth and the struggle for self improvement which had been granted to them by twenty years of reform by the other party, although Eisenhower continued and expanded on the work of Roosevelt and Truman.In the process however, much of the country had experienced similar low points as didNixon and it generally did not get to go through four years of college, attend Duke Law School and come through World War II with enough money to finance a congressional campaign (!).The sheer joylessness of Nixon as drawn on these pages and elsewhere both fascinates and repeals me at the same time (I should add that I feel this way about his two presidential predecessors for different reasons).When Nixon assumed power the country felt it was at the end of its rope and Nixon exploited this sentiment like the politician he was.One wishes that he had been given a copy of Seneca's "Letters from a Stoic" at some point and been made to read it. It might have given him the ability to face life (assuming he could understand it) with slightly more equanimity.

That the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 and the adoption of his take on political culture by both parties was a disaster is indisputable.It is sad that this had to happen to America. One can only hope that at some point this disaster will meet its resolution, hopefully with something that will promote a more unified idea of America.If this is even possible, it will not be easy task what with a gun for hire pundit class willing to prostitute itself not only wantonly but willingly, the emergence of "niche news channels" which provide only a particular point of view and a willful ignorant electorate that is cynically manipulated by politicians on the make.Yes these all got their start when America became Nixonland and it the country is poorer for it.

A marathon of a read, but ultimately rewarding
As I look at my beaten-up copy of this book, I'm amazed that I made it through in the short time that I did.Yes, it's long; yes, it's densely loaded with seemingly minor events and details, but that's what makes it a truly wonderful achievement.If you want to gain an understanding of how we've gotten to a point where liberals and conservatives are equally and sincerely convinced that the other side is evil and out to ruin the country, then you absolutely need to read this book. ... Read more

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Communicating with Celebrity Spirits is the collection of communications that took place between 1976 and present times. All of the contributors are well known; they range from politicians, scientists, and performers to royalty. Six texts are signed God the Almighty.
All the spirits talk about their past lives relating not only to their last life but also to their lives in the world before. They talk about the circumstances of their deaths and what the transition into the realm of spirit was like. All the spirits describe what life after life is like for them.
Most of all, the spirits are interested to talk about the imminent end of this world and the coming of the world Jesus of Nazareth referred to when he said: “my kingdom is not of this world”.
To prepare the reader for the end of the world scenario the Foreword discusses this topic. As the communications presented in this book all took place via telepathy the Foreword also explains what telepathy is and how it works.
The Introduction introduces the reader to further topics the author feels the readers should get to know before reading the messages dictated by the spirits. It deals with the Atlantis Connection and explains why the spirits talk about this topic at length and in detail. The Alien Connection discusses the invasion from space this planet experienced 5800 years ago and the subsequent occupation by aliens who called themselves the gods. The author describes personal contacts he had with extraterrestrials. The UFO Connection relates to activities of extraterrestrials in present times concerning this world. The Larry King Connection explains why in the last part of this book many spirits dictated messages for him.
The first contact with the spirit of Elvis Presley brought the break through for the author’s telepathic abilities. From then on he was able to talk to spirits alone. The first contacts with Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra took place when they were still in hell. They all were asking for help to be able to leave the place of horror they were trapped in. Later contacts were made after they had arrived in the “good place”. The stories of the ones who were able to go there directly were a lot less dramatic.
The chapter with Politicians and associated Persons has two parts: in the first part the members of the Kennedy family and the associated persons Richard Nixon and Frank Sinatra gave very interesting information about their past lives in this world and in the world before. The spirit of President Kennedy gave a detailed account of the circumstances of his assassination naming Nikita Chroushchov as the one who ordered the hit and also mentioning the names of all the persons involved in the conspiracy. His wife gave a historic overview over the lives the participants in this group had in the world before. John Kennedy described the details of he accident, which cost his life and the lives of his wife and sister-in-law. He also described their descent into hell and the subsequent escape from this place of horrors.
Richard Nixon’s spirit explains that he became President to become forced out of office, which repeated a fate he suffered in the world before. Then it was Amun, the god/deity Jack Kennedy descended from who defeated the god Nixon descended from. The animosity and apprehension Nixon felt about the Kennedys reflected the feelings he had carried in his subconscious for thousands of years.
Frank Sinatra seems not to fit into the political scenery but the most important task of his past life, which he didn’t know, was to make sure Jack Kennedy was elected President.
Further communications took place with: Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir, President Tito of Yugoslavia, Leonid Breshnjev President of the Soviet Union, Mao Tse Tung President of China, Pope John Paul I, Princess Diana of Wales, King Hussein of Jordan, 7 messages for Larry King and 6 messages signed God the Almighty.
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Communicating with Kennedy Spirits presents the documentation of contacts not only with spirits of the Kennedy family but also with the spirits of the highest ranking men involved in the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy.
To understand the huge importance of the Kennedy family it was necessary to go back to ancient times when Jon F. Kennedy was Amun, the highest god/deity of the Egyptian pantheon. The he was not only the most powerful but also the richest man on the planet. Jacqueline Bouvier married Jack Kennedy in the repetition of a union, which began in those ancient times, lasted up to the assassination of her husband and has been resumed in life after death. Her’s is the first contribution to this book, as she is the one who explains the historical background of the Kennedy Saga.
Shortly after Amun died there was a change of worlds. The present world is a world for humans only. Because of powerful spiritual mechanisms the huge entities of gods and deities cannot incarnate in this world. Only small particles of the former god/deity spirits incarnate in human bodies but these particles still carry parts of the patterns of fate of the god/deities they descend from. John F. Kennedy, Jack, inherited the most highest ranking of all these spiritual particles of Amun, which made him become the most powerful man on Earth, the President of the United States of America. He also inherited the fate of becoming murdered once he had reached this exalted position.
President Kennedy was able to find a solution for the Cuban Missile Crises, which saved all life on Earth. Murder victims go to hell regardless of merits, as they pass on from life to life after life in an act of violence. After many years in hell a situation arose, which enabled Jack Kennedy to lay the groundwork for saving all positive spiritual energies trapped in this place of horrors. He had help but he was the decisive factor in achieving this great spiritual success. Because of him the gates of hell opened bringing salvation to all positive spiritual energies and ending their suffering.
Jack Kennedy talks about his former life time and his presidency. He talks about the circumstances of his death and of his stay in hell. At long last, the truth about the conspiracy, which ended his life, is revealed. Jack Kennedy tells who was involved in the conspiracy and the motivation for each one of the conspirators. He also talks about the curse, which brought so much misfortune to the personal lives of so many Kennedys.
A tragic accident ended the lives of John F. Kennedy, jr, his wife and his sister-in-law. Even before the wreck of the plane was found he made contact. John gives a detailed account of the accident and his short stay in hell. Based on the great success of his father he and the two women in his company were able to leave hell soon. Upon their arrival in the “good place” his parents welcomed him and explained to him and the others the circumstances that lead to their deaths.
Jackie Kennedy tells her son’s story, the one he knew nothing about while alive he was.
After his death the spirit of Frank Sinatra got to know the important political task he had to fulfill during his past life time.
The Spirit of Richard Nixon gives a detailed account of the forces shaping his past lifetime and his presidency, He goes back to ancient times when the rivalry between him and Jack Kennedy began to continue until they met in their lives after death.
The spirit of Nikita Chroushchov, former President of the Soviet Union, explains why he gave the order to have President Kennedy killed.
The spirit of J. Edgar Hoover tells how he got to know about the plot to assassinate President Kennedy. The spirit of Lyndon B. Johnson tells about the horror of becoming involved in the conspiracy to kill the President of the United States and the ensuing cover up. The spirit of Robert Kennedy reveals his participation in the plot.
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