Abuse of Power The New Nixon Tapes [Paperback]

PRESIDENT NIXON: Here we go. What in the name of God are we doing on this one? What are we doing about the financial contributors? Now, those lists there, are we looking over McGovern's financial contributors? Are we looking over the financial contributors to the Democratic National Committee? Are we running their income tax returns? Is the Justice Department checking to see whether or not there is any antitrust suits? Do we have anything going on any of these things? HALDEMAN: Not as far as I know. PRESIDENT NIXON: We better forget the Goddamn campaign right this minute, not tomorrow, no. That's what concerns me. We have all this power and we aren't using it.Stanley I. Kutleris the E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author ofThe Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon,the editor ofThe Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American History,the historical advisor for the Emmy-winning television documentaryWatergate,and the founding editor ofReviews in American History.Editorial Note

Cast of Characters

Introduction - The Tapes of Richard Nixon

Part One - The Pentagon Papers and other White House Horrors (June 1971 - June 1972)

Part Two - Watergate: Break-in and Cover-up (June 1972 - December 1972)

Part Three - Watergate: The Unraveling of the Cover-up (January 1973 - April 1973)

Part Four - Watergate: The President Under Siege (May 1973 - July 1973)

Epilogue - The Final Year: The Fall of the President (July 1973 - August 1974)

Acknowledgments

Index
Joseph Finder The New York Times Book Review It's oddly refreshing to get the undiluted, unmediated sense of hugger-mugger....It makes for spellbinding reading, and plunges us back into that sordid, astonishing world like nothing else.Daniel Casse The Wall Street Journal Just when you thought we didn't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore...thelS%