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Article: President Nixon: Alone in the White House.(Review)
- Article from:
- The New Leader
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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President Nixon: Alone in the White House By Richard Reeves Simon & Schuster. 704 pp. $35.00.
ON THE SAME August day in 1968 that Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague, I sat in Richard M. Nixon's sunny Manhattan living room as a political dialogue unfolded, a conversation with little relation to the plight of the Czechs. Nixon had asked New York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and Senator Jacob K. Javits to his Fifth Avenue apartment to discuss an issue that he felt could determine whether he or Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey would be the next President.
New York voters, Nixon noted, could vote for Humphrey by pulling either the Democratic or Liberal ...