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...could be more concerned than this writer that this nation maintain an adequate defense force, but it is a dangerous illusion to think that national security can be secured by military means alone. The Global Grab for Power initiated by Harry Truman immediately after he became president, and followed by each of his successors has almost destroyed this nation. Further delays in reordering our priorities away from a warfare state and toward a reduction in poverty, ignorance and bigotry may, I fear, lead this nation to an irreversible national disaster...
...daily bedside staff meeting like a general preparing for Dday. Jacqueline Kennedy instructed West to run the house as he would "for the chinchiest President ever elected." Why? Because, she confided, "we don't have nearly as much money as you read in the papers." Bess Truman spent long evenings with H.S.T., editing his speeches, discussing his policies, and entering into "nearly every decision the President made...
...seen 'em all come and go, West offers the reader a fly-on-the-wall view of such things as a housemaid and F.D.R., in turn, discovering House Guest Winston Churchill's proclivity for stomping around his rooms, chomping his cigar, stark naked. West recalls Harry Truman's unreconstructed Southern mother's downright refusal to sleep in Lincoln's bed. Lyndon Johnson's specially installed, multinozzled, Texas-strength shower nearly knocked the newly elected Nixon clear out of the bathroom...
...keep asking for his autograph. The guys at the precinct are forever drilling him about which character in what book is actually who in real life. That is perhaps one reason why Wambaugh this time chose a "factual novel"−real names and all−in the manner of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
John J. Sirica's 23-page decision that the President must surrender his tapes relied heavily on legal and political precedents-on the theory of the Constitution, the trial of Aaron Burr and President Truman's unsuccessful attempt to take over the steel industry. In threading his way through this maze, Sirica carefully took up and rejected virtually all the arguments that the White House lawyers had presented. His verdict, though phrased with the density of legal language, is a historic document. Excerpts...