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Article: Nixon visited and revisited. (Richard M. Nixon)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 14, 1989
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A lifelong politician who is more comfortable discussing history than campaigning, a connoisseur of power who could not hold onto power, Richard Nixon has achieved the position of senior statesman despite all the best efforts of his beloved media.
RONALD REAGAN may be our most popular postwar President, but Richard Nixon is undoubtedly our most interesting. Though deploring his anti-Communist activities in Congress and his choice of White House companions, left-leaning biographer Stephen Ambrose repeatedly comes back to Nixon's intelligence and complex character. His personality has also preoccupied two psychobiographers, Garry Wills and Bruce Mazlish. ...