Nixon

A Life

Jonathan Aitken

• Publisher: Regnery History
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781621574422
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

The rise, fall, and rebirth of Richard Nixon is perhaps the most fascinating story in American politics—and perhaps the most misunderstood. Nixon: A Life is the first entirely objective biography of Richard Nixon. Former British Defense Minister Jonathan Aitken conducted over sixty hours of interviews with the impeached former president and was granted unprecedented access to thousands of pages of Nixon's previously sealed private documents. Nixon reveals to Aitken why he didn't burn the Watergate tapes, how he felt when he resigned the presidency, his driving spiritual beliefs, and more. Nixon: A Life breaks important new ground as a major work of political biography, inspiring historians to recognize the outstanding diplomatic achievements of a man whose journey from tainted politician to respected foreign policy expert and elder statesman was nothing short of remarkable.

INDEXINDEX

N. stands for Richard M. Nixon.

A

Aarons, Les, 616

ABC Television, xv, 359, 670

Abernathy, Ralph, 291

ABM (antiballistic missile defence system), 416, 463, 514–15, 520–22

Abplanalp, Robert A., x, 380, 401–4, 414, 554, 638, 670

Abrams, General Creighton, 475, 516

Acheson, Dean, 178, 288, 261, 272–73

Achilles, Theodore, 295, 446, 559

Acker, Marje, 670

ADA (Americans for Democratic Action), 274, 525

Adams, Vice President, later President, John, 242, 444

Adams, Sherman, 241, 247, 251, 279, 281, 283, 291–92

Adams, Duque and Hazeltine, 345

Adelson, Bill, 73

Adenauer, Konrad, xiv–xv, 304, 386–87

Advanced Donors of the United Funds of Northern Westchester County, 376–77

Africa, N.’s visits to, 290, 341, 387

Agnew, Spiro T., 420–22, 431, 433, 446, 517, 585, 592–93, 595–97, 623

Aitken, Jonathan, xiii–xix, 41, 47, 62, 66n66n, 123, 181, 206, 322n322n, 388, 397–98, 401, 406, 543–53, 558, 589n589n, 602, 607, 624

Alameda, Cal., N.’s posting to, 126, 128–29

Alaska, N. campaigns in, 337–38

Albert, Carl, 570, 597

Albrink, Frederick, 75–77, 79, 84

Allan, Ken, 635

Allen, Richard V., 656, 658–59

Alsop, Joseph, 166

Alsop, Stewart, 91, 166, 246

Ambrose, Stephen, 461, 554, 610, 673

Amery, Julian, 287, 647, 649, 667

Anderson, Bob, 312

Anderson, Prof...