WSJ Columnist: Nixon Shouldn't Have Resigned
Author of, Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon
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WSJ: Nixon Shouldn’t Have Resigned
I argued in August 1974 that the president should stay and fight. History has vindicated my view.
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The “Watergate affair” was also the culmination of Nixon’s political
opponents’ long-yearned-for goal of destroying him. Nixon had a political target on his back from his congressional days of vanquishing the communist Alger Hiss, a favorite of Washington’s intellectual left. Through his entire presidency, Congress was controlled by opposition Democrats, with confrontation aggravated further by Nixon’s determination to end the Vietnam War he had inherited from the Kennedy and Johnson administration
planners at the State and Defense departments.
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BIO: Ken Khachigian, author of Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon, is the director Emeritus of the Richard Nixon Foundation Board of Directors, veteran of nine presidential campaigns and Chief Speechwriter and Senior Political Advisor for President Reagan.
Khachagian was the Chief Speechwriter, trusted political adviser, favorite scribe to Ronald Reagan and “go-to” counsel for Reagan and Nancy Reagan in campaigns and political crisis. He served in Richard Nixon’s White House and with Nixon as he emerged from Watergate, assisted with Nixon’s memoirs and led preparation for his interviews with David Frost. A successful attorney, he earned respect as California’s premier Republican strategist in elections for governor, senator, and attorney general. He is an honors graduate of U.C. Santa Barbara, from which he received its Distinguished Alumni Award. Khachigian is listed among 100 Armenians who have changed the world. He lives in Southern California.
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