They said no to Nixon : Republicans who stood up to the president's abuses of power /
In more than 3,000 recorded conversations, the Nixon tapes famously exposed a president's sinister views of governance that would eventually lead to his downfall. Despite Richard Nixon's best efforts, his vision of a government where he could use his power to punish his political enemies n...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "Too many nice guys" : what brought about resistance in the Nixon administration
- "An independent son of a bitch" : Nixon, Johnnie Walters and the IRS
- "There's no basis in law to carry out this order ... and we're not going to do it" : how the OMB stopped Nixon's war on MIT
- "Get him the hell out of HEW" : Elliot Richardson's quiet battles with President Nixon
- "He's going to have to prove he's the white knight" : Elliot Richardson and the Saturday Night Massacre
- Conclusion : Nixon's culture of loyalty in the age of Trump.