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Article: Richard Nixon's Political Hinterland: The Shadows of JFK adn Charles de Gaulle.
- Article from:
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
- Author:
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Each president enters the White House to be confronted by the reputations of those who already have held the office. It is commonplace to ask the new incumbent which predecessors are to be admired. For Richard Nixon, the presidents included among his personal pantheon were Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Yet, his political career was shaped also, inevitably, by less publicly acknowledged influences. Two of these can be teased from Nixon's writings: from his first book, Six Crises, and, more speculatively, from his post-Watergate book of memoirs. Between them these works illustrate the political affinities that Nixon felt for two contemporary ...