Behind Closed Doors

In the Room with Reagan & Nixon

Ken Khachigian

• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9798888452738
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Named American Spectator's Political Book of The Year A compelling insider's account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America's presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture. Ken Khachigian has written the most lucid, most important work about the postwar period. For an inside look at how ugly politics can be--and how noble--you cannot miss this book. I still love Ken after fifty years and you will, too, when you read this jewel of a memoir. —Ben Stein, Economist, law professor, multi Emmy awarded actor, speechwriter for Presidents Nixon and Ford, novelist, and screenwriter This is essential reading for anyone wanting to know how Ronald Reagan shaped his crusading message of economic growth through tax cuts and limited government. Khachigian's is a fascinating account by one who takes you into the rooms where the decisions were made. —Larry Kudlow, Host of Fox Business Network's "Kudlow" and Former Director, National Economic Council To understand Nixon and Reagan, the two crucial Presidents and coalition builders of the last third of the 20th century, the insights of Ken Khachigian, the confidant who advised them both, seem indispensable. —Pat Buchanan, White House Aide to Presidents Nixon and Reagan Ken Khachigian is a great conservative and patriot, and his book will give you the inside view of a presidency that will go down in history as one of greatness and strength. —Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan's White House Political Director Ken Khachigian offers a riveting account of his thrilling journey through American history at the sides of two monumental Presidents. If you care about where America has been, and where it's going, this is a must-read! —Monica Crowley, Ph.D., Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, News Analyst and Bestselling Author Ken Khachigian will draw you inside a generation of White House leadership and details how Reagan revived the American economy and lit a prairie fire of patriotism across America. —K.T. McFarland, American political candidate, former government official, and political commentator Mr. Khachigian, now 79 and retired (and an occasional contributor to this newspaper's opinion pages), concludes his anecdote-rich book with an expression of gratitude to both Nixon and Reagan, saying that it was "wonderful good fortune for me to have been at their service, and, for the country, for each of them to have served. —Wall Street Journal Behind Closed Doors is a rich repository of hitherto unknown but highly significant stories about two leaders who many of us thought we knew everything about but obviously didn't. —NewsMax

Table of contents

• Advance Praise for Behind Closed Doors
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: The End as the Beginning
• Chapter 2: Return of the Native
• Chapter 3: The Frost–Nixon Interviews
• Chapter 4: Coach Nixon
• Chapter 5: Breakthrough
• Chapter 6: October Blahs
• Chapter 7: A Woman Shakes Things Up
• Chapter 8: Phrase-Making and Debating Debates
• Chapter 9: Major Speeches and Nixon Weighs In
• Chapter 10: Amy and Hostages
• Chapter 11: The Final Turn and Home
• Chapter 12: “We Are Americans”
• Chapter 13: Taking Charge
• Chapter 14: “The President’s Been Shot!”
• Chapter 15: The Fireman
• Chapter 16: The Power Seekers
• Chapter 17: Suiting Up Again
• Chapter 18: Morning Again in America
• Chapter 19: Nancy Strikes Back
• Chapter 20: Crisis at Home
• Chapter 21: Gorbachev’s Three Lady Friends
• Chapter 22: The First Lady’s War on Drugs
• Chapter 23: Iran–Contra Erupts
• Chapter 24: Saying Goodbye
• Chapter 25: The Lions Gather
• Appendix
• Endnotes
• Acknowledgments