President Nixon is the astonishing story of a complex political animal who was as praised as he was reviled and who remains a subject of controversy to this day.His closest aides spied on him as he spied on them, while cabinet members, generals, and admirals spied on all of them--rifling briefcases and desks, tapping each other's phones in a house where no one knew what was true anymore.

Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president at all. Using thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes, Richard Reeves's President Nixon offers a surprising portrait of a brilliant and contradictory man.

Even as he dreamed of presidential greatness, Nixon could trust no one. His closest aides spied on him as he spied on them, while cabinet members, generals, and admirals spied on all of them--rifling briefcases and desks, tapping each other's phones in a house where no one knew what was true anymore. Reeves shows a presidency doomed from the start by paranoia and corruption, beginning with Nixon and Kissinger using the CIA to cover up a murder by American soldiers in Vietnam that led to the theft and publication of the Pentagon Papers, then to secret counterintelligence units within the White House itself, and finally to the burglaries and cover-up that came to be known as Watergate. President Nixon is the astonishing story of a complex political animal who was as praised as he was reviled and who remains a subject of controversy to this day.

Introduction

Prologue: August 9, 1974

January 21, 1969

February 23, 1969

March 17, 1969

April 15, 1969

June 19, 1969

July 20,1969

August 8, 1969

October 15, 1969

December 8, 1969

January 22, 1970

April 8, 1970

April 30, 1970

May 4, 1970

June 30, 1970

September 23, 1970

November 3, 1970

December 31, 1970

March 29, 1971

June 12, 1971

June 30,1971

August 12, 1971

August 15, 1971

September 8, 1971

October 21, 1971

December 16, 1971

January 2, 1972

January 25, 1972

February 22, 1972

April 7, 1972

May 1, 1972

May 15, 1972

June 17, 1972

June 23, 1972

August 22, 1972

November 7, 1972

December 19, 1972

January 23, 1973

March 23, 1973

April 30, 1973

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Acknowledgments

Index