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Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes Hardcover – November 1, 1997

by Stanley Kutler (Editor)

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More than three thousand hours of sensitive recordings taped by the former president himself present a portrait of Nixon and his years in the White House

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More than 20 years after the Watergate scandal that brought down his presidency, the character of Richard M. Nixon continues to fascinate us. Many books have been written about Nixon, and about Watergate, but perhaps none sheds so revealing a light on the late president as Stanley I. Kutler's Abuse of Power. In the years following Watergate, as Nixon fought to rebuild his reputation from the ruins of his shattered presidency, he fought fiercely to suppress publication of most of the secret tapes that led to his downfall. During his lifetime, only about 60 hours of the almost 4,000 that exist were ever made public, and even after his death his estate continued to obstruct further releases. Then, in 1996, Kutler, along with the advocacy group Public Citizen, won a landmark decision to release the tapes.

Among other things, Abuse of Power definitively answers the question of whether Nixon was directly involved in raising hush money (he was) and suggests a reason for the burglary attempt at the Watergate Hotel (financial documents that might have linked the Democratic Party chairman to Howard Hughes). The tapes also reveal the vindictive and bigoted side to Nixon's personality, particularly as he discusses "killing" the Washington Post, and blames rich Jews for Billy Graham's tax problems. Abuse of Power only covers an additional 201 hours of tape of the near 4,000 that remain unreleased. It seems that the final chapter on Watergate has yet to be written.

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After a quarter-century of Watergate interpretation, it's oddly refreshing to get the undiluted, unmediated sense of huggermugger that this new cache of transcripts gives us. It makes for spellbinding reading, and plunges us back into that sordid, astonishing world like nothing else.... Kutler has done a skilled job of annotation. As is perhaps inevitable in transcribing such poor-quality tapes, a number of errors have crept in--though turning a "wire service reporter" into a "water service" reporter is hardly significant.... -- The New York Times Book Review, Joseph Finder

Richard Milhous Nixon has been the subject of countless portraits, but none is more compelling than the one that emerges from these grotesque and riveting pages: Nixon raw, in his own words, a president unmasked. Here is a man who was popular as a leader, successful in his politics, facing only imagined enemies, with no objective basis for his fears and mistrusts, no real justification for the pornography of his words and deeds. You are forced to conclude that what we are confronted with is a fundamentally flawed human being whose obsessions began to eat away at all that was decent and responsible. Unfortunately, his tragedy was not merely personal. It was ours as well. -- Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Robert Sheer

This book remains fascinating, however, because, coupled with Haldeman's posthumously published diaries, it provides a full portrait of what was actually going on inside the White House during a tumultuous era. Although Abuse of Power represents but a fraction of Nixon material in the National Archives, readers will be awed by the sheer amount of time Nixon and his aides spend chattering about Watergate and the adversary culture that surrounded them. When did they have time to run the country? -- Wall Street Journal, Daniel Casse

This fresh group of tapes may be of more interest to historians and law students than to the general reader, but it contains hundreds of entertaining glimpses of life in the Oval Office as a president feels his power crumbling away. -- The New York Review of Books, Russell Baker

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Richard Nixon said he wanted his administration to be "the best chronicled in history." But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated taping system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American history. The tapes dominated the final two years of Nixon's presidency, and almost single-handedly forced his resignation.

But only 60 hours were actually made public in the 1970s. Many thousands of hours remained secret and in Nixon's hands, and he fought fiercely to keep them that way right up to his death. Finally, thanks to a lawsuit brought by historian Stanley I. Kutler with the advocacy group Public Citizen, a landmark 1996 settlement with the Nixon estate and the National Archives is bringing over 3,000 hours of tapes to light. The initial release in November 1996 of over 200 hours of material comprised all those conversations concerning abuse of power -- every Watergate-related tape, as well as those concerning many other campaign misdeeds and some Pentagon Papers discussions. Finally, the full story of Nixon's downfall can be told.

From Ehrlichman's saying, "Dean's been admonished not to contrive a story that's liable not to succeed" to Nixon's asking, "Is the line pretty well set now on, when asked about Watergate, as to what everybody says and does, to stonewall?" Abuse of Power reveals a much more extensive cover-up than ever realized. From Colson's announcing, "Well, we did a little dirty trick this morning" to Nixon's ordering a McGovern watch "around the clock" to the planting of a spy in Ted Kennedy's Secret Service detail, Abuse of Power redefines the meaning of campaign tactics. And from a worried discussion of Dwayne Andreas's "bag man" to Nixon's stating that the burglars "have to be paid. That's all there is to that," to a quiet conversation with Rose Mary Woods to see if there remained $100,000 in his safe for "a campaign thing that we're talking about," here is a money trail that anyone can follow.

Packed with revelations on almost every page, the Abuse of Power tapes offer a spellbinding portrait of raw power and a Shakespearean depiction of a king and his court. Never have the personalities of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Haig, Kissinger, Dean, and Mitchell been so vividly captured with the spoken word. And never has an American President offered such a revealing record of his darkest self.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0684841274
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press; First Edition (November 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 675 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780684841274
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684841274
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.23 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.75 x 10 inches

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AuroraKnots

The Nixon legacy - crimes, lies, bigotry, and paranoia.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 24, 2003

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This may prove a daunting read for some, as they wade through the minutiae to get at the heart of the conversations obsessively recorded by Pres. Nixon. If you have an interest in Vietnam, Watergate, Richard Nixon or American politics, however, it's worth making the effort.

There is only one word to describe many of these conversations...chilling. Nixon's arrogance and ruthlessness were astounding. What a terrible shock it must have been for men like Haige and Kissinger to learn their every word - and the President's - had been recorded for posterity.

That anyone could listen to these tapes and proclaim that Nixon was a good president is unbelievable. In these tapes, Nixon reveals himself to be not only a compulsive liar, hut a moral bankrupt, paranoid bigot. He lied about his plans for Vietnam, his tax returns, and that fifth-rate burglary known as Watergate, in other words, a felony.

Some readers have complained that these tapes don't contain a "smoking gun." Well, he destroyed two of the tapes he made after he was ordered by the authorities to turn them over. Or rather he had his secretary "accidentally" erase them. We'll never know what those tapes contained.

He did all this and Ronald Reagan made him a goodwill ambassador to China! It's terrifying.

This book is a must for any student of American History or the Cold War.

We should all be grateful to Nixon for leaving us this invaluable piece of history. His compulsive paranoia was, in this one way, a gift to us all.

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Howard Roth

Small time crooks in the world's highest office

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Dramatic readings of the Watergate tapes, released in 1997. William Windom as Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is a weak link in the way he interprets the presidential character. Part small time crook, part jaded executive who has seen too much and no longer cares to play by the rules. No question, Nixon's own statements, as recorded here, are possibly the strongest condemnation of himself as chief executive. He could not have been elected county dog catcher if people had known his private thoughts and motives. The amazing thing is that his Presidency was moderately successful in some ways. It seems that Nixon was willing to "do the right thing" when he thought he should. Unfortunately, he also believed he had a license to do "wrong things" as President, and he took advantage of that doubtful privilege. Interesting set of recordings for Watergate buffs.

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Wilcy Moore

Interesting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2005

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I listened to the cassette tape version of this book, which is a reenactment of the tapes by professional actors. I was kind of hoping to listen to the actual tapes, but this approach turned out to be better than expected.

One thing that kind of bugged me was the continual mispronunciation of Gordon Strachan's name (pronounced "strawn" not "stra-chen"). That kind of boo boo only reminded me that these were actors and not the real people.

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A must for anyone studying Nixon

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Very enlightening. Makes me think all presidents should be taped and published, sooner rather than later! Makes me wonder what (currently) "we the people" have been sold down the river for in the current administration.

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liznvinny

I heard that Stanley Kutler wrote great Watergate books

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Have not read this huge book yet-but I'm anxious to. I heard that Stanley Kutler wrote great Watergate books. Really looking forward to this & The Wars of Watergate.

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jerry bender

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Nixon in His Own Embarrassing Words

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2015

I was eager to read this book because I am fascinated by Watergate; the event happened more than a decade before my birth, and I have read pro- and anti-Nixon feelings. This book contains over 600 pages of transcripts from the secret Nixon tapes. Kutler has done a wonderful job of providing the dates and times of each recording, as well as listing who was in the room. For people like me who weren't around for this event, Kutler included a description of the conversation based on things that were happening in the news. I also appreciate how the author begins the book with a list of all the characters, including a description of who they were. Several times I referred back to the index when I forgot who a person was.

My only complaint with the book would be that Kutler came across as very anti-Nixon in some of the descriptions he wrote. He certainly has the right to do that, but in my opinion this would be a better history book if his commentary was more neutral. Nixon's words speak for themselves, and some of Kutler's words made it more of an opinion piece rather than unbiased history.

I also have to give a parental-advisory warning due to the graphic language used by the President and several of his aides.

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