The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward

The Last of the President's Men

by Bob Woodward

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Through Alexander Butterfield, the aide who oversaw installing Nixon's taping system, you see a president well beyond the Watergate cover-up. Woodward works from 46 hours of interviews and about twenty boxes of Butterfield's papers, including a 1972 note in which Nixon judged over 2.9 million tons of bombing to have achieved nothing.

Core ideas
  • Vietnam for re-election: In Woodward's account Nixon ran the war with re-election in mind rather than military victory.
  • Petty control: Staff were checked for Kennedy photographs, and Butterfield arranged for Ted Kennedy's Secret Service detail to include a Nixon loyalist.
  • The dutiful aide: An Air Force colonel who flew 98 reconnaissance missions over Vietnam, Butterfield later disclosed the taping system to the Senate Watergate Committee.
Published2015
Pages304
ISBN9781501116445
ReadDec 2025

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