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Easton Press leather edition of "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon," Volumes 1 and 2, part of the LIBRARY OF THE PRESIDENTS series, published in 1988. Bound in deep hunter green leather, the books have decorative paper end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in Near FINE condition---except for 'blank' attached bookplates on inside fly leaf on each volume. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. Richard Milhous Nixon, who lived from 1913--1994, was the 37th president of the U.S., serving from 1969 to 1974. Born in Yorba Linda, California, to a poor Quaker family, Nixon was bent on achieving success. He was President of his class at Whittier College, from which he graduated in 1934 and graduated third in his 1937 class from Duke University Law School where he researched for.35 cents an hour and lived in a farmhouse without electricity or water. He worked as a lawyer until his induction into the U.S. Navy in 1942. He later practiced law in California and moved with his wife, Pat, to Washington, D.C. in 1942 to work for the federal government. He gained fame for his work on the ALGER HISS case. Nixon served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953-1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His years in the White House saw reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, detente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo II Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. On November 7, 1972, Richard Nixon won a landslide victory in the presidential contest by a staggering 60 to 40 percent, the climax of twenty-six years of campaigning. However, the Democrats held on to both houses of Congress. Nixon was determined to take on the Democrats and also the basic structure of American government; and because of Nixon's deep-rooted, long-standing anger at his opponents, real and imagined, this led him to ill-considered and ill-tempered outbursts, which in turn goaded his opponents into extremism, thus raising the stress on the already badly battered body politic. Nixon called his second term the "New American Revolution." Nixon intended to drastically reduce the size and scope of the federal government and to "trim down" the Great Society programs of the 1960s. Nixon, with a mandate from the people, was ready to take them all on---the Joint Chiefs, the right wing, the left wing, the entrenched interests. He was in good shape---fifty-nine years old and in excellent health. Three White House advisors urged Nixon to cover up the WATERGATE break-in and scandal. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. President GERALD FORD issued a pardon for his successor. Stephen Ambrose wrote: "Most of what happened was because Nixon so willed it. . .between January 1973 and August 1974 he could have brought down the curtain---by confessing, by resigning, by burning the tapes, by defying the Special Prosecutor, the courts, and the Congress, or through a number of other possible actions. Instead, he chose to try to save all by risking all. . .he was heroic, admirable, and inspiring while simultaneously being dishonorable, despicable, and a horrible example. It was a role only Richard Nixon could have invented or played. . .Yet there is a hero. Justice does prevail, virtue does triumph, despite the shortcomings, human failings, selfishness, and mendacity that all but overwhelm. That hero, much battered and abused throughout the play, rises in the end to achieve vindication. . ." During his presidency, Nixon was an embattled servant attempting to hold together a nation being torn apart by domestic turbulence at home and horrific violence abroad. Even his detractors grudgingly acknowledged his skills in the arena of international accord. Even before he became president the media had always had a field day with Nixon. His features and personality lent themselves well to caricature, and his knack for residing on the fringe of political controversy made for good copy. But after Watergate, the deluge was incessant. Nixon rehabilitated his image as an elder statesman, writing his memoirs and nine other books. His "Memoirs" do not offer excuses or apologies, but he wanted to put his own experience and viewpoint on the permanent ledger. The two Volumes have 1040 pages, plus an index. I offer combined shipping.
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