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![]() ![]() He strongly believed that John Kennedy stole the 1960 presidential election from him and vowed to do whatever it took to keep that from happening again. Weiner reveals the extremes Nixon was willing to go to defeat his enemies at home and abroad. Anyone who opposed him was considered his enemy, particularly antiwar protesters. At the same time, he regarded politics as war. ![]() Nixon saw himself as a great statesman whose top priority was to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam. Every quotation and citation is on the record. ![]() Weiner, who received a Pulitzer Prize for his Philadelphia Inquirer reporting on secret government programs and a National Book Award for Legacy of Ashes, a history of the CIA, bases his book in great part on tens of thousands of government documents declassified between 20. ![]() And then you destroy yourself.” In his illuminating and compelling One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, award-winning author and journalist Tim Weiner tells the story of a tormented man, considered by many to be a brilliant politician, in the process of destroying himself. In his farewell remarks to the White House staff after his resignation from the presidency, Richard Nixon said, “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. ![]()
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