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December 13, 2023 | History
An edition of The Ends of Power (1978)

The ends of power

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Halderman discusses many crucial questions about Watergate that are still mysteries today.

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Publisher
Times Books
Pages
326

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Cover of: The ends of power
The ends of power
1978, G. K. Hall
in English
Cover of: The ends of power
The ends of power
1978, Times Books
in English
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The ends of power
1978, Optimum Publishing
in English
Cover of: The Ends of Power
The Ends of Power
1978, Times Books
in English
Cover of: The ends of power
The ends of power
1978, Times Books
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The ends of power
1978, W.H. Allen
in English
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The ends of power
1978, Dell Publishing Co
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.1/32/0924 , B
Library of Congress
E860 .H34, E860 .H34, E 860 .H34 1978

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 326 p., [8] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
326

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18323271M
Internet Archive
endsofpower00hald
ISBN 10
0812907248
LCCN
77079031
OCLC/WorldCat
3540631
Library Thing
170315
Goodreads
893526

Work Description

H. R. Haldeman, as the world now knows, tells all and proves virtually nothing but the crumminess of everyone concerned in this glazed and wooden account of Watergate and after. Nixon, he thinks, spurred strong-arm Colson to push Hunt and Liddy--abetted by weakling Magruder--""to get the goods"" on Larry O'Brien's connection with Howard Hughes (who, indirectly, may have caused him ""to lose two elections""). According to this scheme of things, the Democrats let the break-in occur (to shame the GOP--shame, shame) and the CIA--in the person of suddenly inexpert James McCord--probably sabotaged it (to defuse Nixon's threat to CIA independence). Similar reasoning from weakness leads Haldeman to finger mechanically inept Nixon as the one who erased the critical [8(apple) minutes from the June 20, 1972, tapes; he was trying, by fits and starts, to erase all the Watergate talk, and gave up. The answer to ""Who Is Deep Throat?"" is, if anything, even more conjectural. As for the foreign policy disclosures, they turn out to be either public knowledge (the aborted 1970 Russian base in Cuba) or, at best, highly exaggerated (the prospective US-Soviet strike against Chinese nuclear plants). What is undeniably of some keyhole interest is the spectacle of the conspirators thrashing about like vaudeville comics to cover themselves; the cartoon-style personalities of these Executive Officers; and, more consequentially, their thought processes--beginning with Haldeman's own stuffy, blinding arrogance. To him, bombing Cambodia in secret was justified because knowledge would have triggered American protests. ""Why should the Commander-in-Chief, Kissinger, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, be overruled by a private citizen who disagreed, and leaked secrets to the press?"" No wonder there isn't a hero, fallen or otherwise, in sight. These bozos can only cry foul when they're not, still, pleading ignorance.

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