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Watergate and Afterward - The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon (Hardcover)
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Watergate and Afterward - The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon (Hardcover)
Series: Contributions in Political Science
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This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars,
journalists, and former Nixon Administration officials to examine
the Watergate controversy and its legacy. Particular attention is
paid to Nixon's misuse of government power for political ends, his
administration's obsession with secrecy and the control of
information, and the impeachment proceedings in Congress. This is
the second in a trilogy of titles based on the Hofstra Presidential
Conference on Richard M. Nixon (the first, Richard M. Nixon:
Politician, President, Administrator [Greenwood, 1991], was also
edited by Friedman and Levantrosser). Watergate and Afterward
includes a final assessment of the Nixon Presidency by a group of
biographers who have written extensively about the man and his
politics, as well as appraisals of Nixon's accomplishments and
failures by both administration figures and outside historians.
Special effort was made throughout to incorporate opposing points
of view on the various issues under discussion, making this one of
the most comprehensive and balanced assessments of the Watergate
scandal and its aftermath available in print. The book begins with
essays that describe the political reactions to Watergate and
Nixon's attempt to remove the first special prosecutor on the case.
In the discussion section that follows, new insight into what the
break-in was supposed to accomplish is provided by Reverend Jeb
Stuart Magruder, speaking for the first time in a public forum.
Subsequent papers discuss the different efforts by the Nixon
Administration to uncover information about political opponents,
the politicization of the Justice Department, the constitutional
confrontation in the Supreme Courtover the Nixon tapes, and the
Pentagon Papers case. Discussants include Charles Colson, who was
in the White House at the time, Tom Brokaw of NBC, and Ron Ziegler
and Gerald Warren of the White House press office. Finally, the
impeachment proceedings are reexamined in chapters that explore the
specific charges against the president and the political coalitions
that formed in Congress around them. Ideal as supplemental reading
for courses on the presidency and modern American politics,
Watergate and Afterward is an important contribution to our
understanding of this critical period in postwar history.
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