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The Friends of Nixon
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The Friends of Nixon
"Like Joyce," writes
Roderick Mac Leish in the Times Literary Supplement,
"Higgins uses language in torrents, beautifully
crafted, ultimately intending to create a panoramic
impression."
Higgins himself related to the legal and judicial based
background not only gives a vast historical perspective
in this book he also covers an immense area of lobbying
and political side of American history.
Higgins has given a complete story of the trial of Watergate
on judicial basis and has given how the judicial system
works under threats and how different conspiracies are
made. He has presented the most difficult times of American
political history with a touch of his love for literature
and writing has given this book a status of a reference
book with an inside detailed picture of the white house
and the water gate scandal and the role of political
advisors and others hungry for money and power who ruined
the career of an elected president.
Much has already been revealed and written about Nixon
the anti-Semite, Nixon the dogmatist, Nixon the "school
yard bully" with his "Enemies List,"
and much more. This book reveals why Nixon appeared
to become increasingly obsessed and self-destructive
even as he was serving in the top office in the world.
Higgins's close interest in the legal side of the Watergate
case against President Nixon and his associates led
to two books: the novel A City on a Hill and a non-fiction
study, The Friends of Richard Nixon (both 1975). He
gives a historical and legal picture of the Watergate,
which makes this book a comprehensive experience to
read.
"Sentimentality, private eyes and innocent victims
to write exclusively of criminals who work on each other
in a community where sin is less talked of than are
mistakes."1
We are shown many hidden and undercover areas of this
scandal, which shacked the very basis of American political
system with conspiracies, lies, fabrication and deceit.
Rehnquist rose to power after being named by Richard
Nixon in 1969 as a new assistant attorney general and
head of the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department
of Justice. In such civil rights cases as Nixon's use
of the Army to conduct domestic surveillance, Rehnquist
vigorously defended the president, offering advice that
the embattled Nixon valued so highly, that he privately
called his legal aide as "Renchberg."
We get to know about Nixon’s plagued mind and
his passion for power and rule; Higgins has shown him
as another Micaville, blinded for supremacy and clout.
A scandal involving abuse of power by
public officials, violation of the public trusts, bribery,
contempt of Congress, and attempted obstruction of justice.
Higgins shows the Watergate affair, which signifies
the web of political scandals that plagued President
Richard M. Nixon from 1972 until his resignation in
1974.
Washington, D.C. police officers arrested seven employees
of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP),
as they were breaking into the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex. Not
only had Nixon, his aides, and his reelection campaign
conspired to sabotage the president's Democratic challengers,
but also they were now attempting to impede the investigation
of the Watergate case. This shows Nixon’s preoccupation
with power and lust for control.
George Higgins gives a complete picture of the inside
story of the white house and Nixon under the toughest
times of his life. He has fully utilized his knowledge
and insight in to the political system of American judicial
system and administrative system of United States of
America.
In May 1973, Nixon was forced to agree to the naming
of a special prosecutor for the case, Archibald Cox.
Working with a federal grand jury presided over by Judge
John Sirica, Cox subpoenaed secret tape recordings of
presidential meetings and telephone conversations; Nixon
refused to release them, citing the doctrine of executive
privilege. In October 1973, the president ordered Cox's
firing. Higgins has made use of all political and administrative
understanding of political system of United States of
America. Higgins take us in the halls of the supreme
court and we find our selves actually facing the federal
grand jury, his command over the language has given
him an edge over this non fiction book which has a touch
of drama added to it. 2
Higgins has based his personal understanding and knowledge
of water gate scandal and its impact on the psyche of
American people and has utilized his legal understanding
of American judicial system. Higgins has given an insight
in to the legal and the most complicated area of justice
and law. Controversy persists as to the significance
of Watergate. Nixon and his defenders argue that he
did nothing that other presidents of both parties had
not already done, to claim him blameless they maintain
that his political enemies hounded Nixon from office.
Nixon's critics reply that he endangered the legal system
by mortifying the electoral procedure and that he had
wanted to inflate the powers of the government further
than legitimate confines.
Higgins maintains in the book that The Nixon Era will
go down in history as one of the darkest of the Cold
War period when American politics was rampant with chaos
at the highest levels of government and the entire world
teetered on the verge of nuclear disaster because one
man, Richard Nixon, knew no precincts in his desire
for power. Nixon’s lust and greed for power put
the world at the threshold of nuclear disaster.
The Watergate scandal brutally shook the trust of the
American people in the government and turned out to
be an ultimate analysis for the U.S. Constitution. Throughout
the tribulation, however, the constitutional system
of checks and balances worked to prevent abuses, as
the Founding Fathers had intended. Watergate showed
that in a nation of laws no one is above the law, not
even the president.
Endnotes
1. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Peter Prescott, in Contemporary
Authors, New Revision Series, vol. 51, 213.
2. George V. Higgins, The Friends of
Richard Nixon, Little Brown & Co. 1974, p. 159
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