Title: The Fall of Richard Nixon Pdf A Reporter Remembers Watergate
Author: Tom Brokaw
Published Date: 2019
Page: 240
“Tom Brokaw arrived in Washington as the rising young star of broadcast news just as the presidency of Richard Nixon was collapsing. Brokaw has intertwined his own story with Nixon’s in a way that is readable, revealing, and always fascinating.”—Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon Tom Brokaw is the author of seven bestsellers: The Greatest Generation, The Greatest Generation Speaks, An Album of Memories, A Long Way from Home, Boom!, The Time of Our Lives, and A Lucky Life Interrupted. A native of South Dakota, he graduated from the University of South Dakota with a degree in political science. He began his journalism career in Omaha and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC News during Watergate, and from 1976 to 1981 he anchored Today on NBC. He was the sole anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw from 1983 to 2005. In 2008 he anchored Meet the Press for nine months following the death of his friend Tim Russert. He continues to report for NBC News, producing long-form documentaries and providing expertise during breaking news events. Brokaw has won every major award in broadcast journalism, including two duPonts, two Peabody Awards, and several Emmys. In 2014, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in New York and Montana.
In August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the first and only president to resign from office in anticipation of certain impeachment. The year preceding that moment was filled with shocking revelations and bizarre events, full of power politics, legal jujitsu, and high-stakes showdowns, and with head-shaking surprises every day. As the country’s top reporters worked to discover the truth, the public was overwhelmed by the confusing and almost unbelievable stories about activities in the Oval Office.
Tom Brokaw, who was then the young NBC News White House correspondent, gives us a nuanced and thoughtful chronicle, recalling the players, the strategies, and the scandal that brought down a president. He takes readers from crowds of shouting protesters to shocking press conferences, from meetings with Attorney General Elliot Richardson and White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, to overseas missions alongside Henry Kissinger. He recounts Nixon’s claims of executive privilege to withhold White House tape recordings of Oval Office conversations; the bribery scandal that led to the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew and his replacement by Gerald Ford; the firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; how in the midst of Watergate Nixon organized emergency military relief for Israel during the Yom Kippur War; the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court that required Nixon to turn over the tapes; and other insider moments from this important and dramatic period.
The Fall of Richard Nixon allows readers to experience this American epic from the perspective of a journalist on the ground and at the center of it all.
Advance praise for The Fall of Richard Nixon
“A divided nation. A deeply controversial president. Powerful passions. No, it’s not what you’re thinking, but Tom Brokaw knows that the past can be prologue, and he’s given us an absorbing and illuminating firsthand account of how Richard Nixon fell from power. Part history, part memoir, Brokaw’s book reminds us of the importance of journalism, the significance of facts, and the inherent complexity of power in America.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America
Watergate revisited Tom Brokaw writes an easy read summary about Nixon's Watergate impeachment proceedings that forced Nixon to resign the presidencyIt does not break any new ground nor does it go into any detail Instead it's a light and entertaining rendition of Brokaws time as white house correspondentWatergate and Richard Nixon... Tom Brokaw’s new book, “The Fall of Richard Nixon”, is not a straight history of Nixon’s impeachment, but rather it’s collection of short chapters about Richard Nixon and the story around the Watergate scandal and his subsequent resignation. Brokaw begins his book with a question posted at the Nixon Presidential Library, “Who was Richard Nixon?”. He attempts to answer that question, but fails in the end, because I doubt if anyone, even Nixon himself, could have answered correctly.Tom Brokaw’s broadcasting career began in the late 1960’s. TV and newspapers were the main way we got our news in those days before the internet. Brokaw fit in to the NBC news organization. He was a go-getter and became friends with many politicians in Washington DC when he was there to cover; I was left wondering about the cozy dinner parties he and his wife went to and if they interfered with how he reported the news. He knew most of the politicians and news makers who were involved in first the probe of the crime at the Watergate and then the attempt at impeachment of Richard Nixon.Most of those readers of Brokaw’s book lived through the Nixon presidency and the Watergate era. We remember the old and now dead figures so important 45 years ago. Some - a few - are still around and they pop up on the cable shows to talk about what they remember from their Watergate days and how it relates to the current administration and their problems. Don’t Jill Wine Banks and Liz Holtzman look good for their ages? And hasn’t John Dean aged divinely? (I wonder what happened to Mo Dean and if she’s still wearing her pearl ear studs).Tom Brokaw combines yesterday and today in his book. And somehow, the Watergate scandal was evocative of a more innocent time than we’re going through now. Brokaw’s writing has always had a tinge of looking backward to see more honest and simple times; to use as a guide for dealing with today’s society. That was clearly apparent to me when I read this book.Selfies, cheese and crackers Tom Brokaw knows his Hors d oeuvres. This book, nominally about the end of the Nixon presidency, is actually a tray of vanilla-wafer-and-aerosol-cheese reminiscences, best suited to folks past sixty. Garnished with other personal anecdotes wrapped in gentle language about a fractious era, you just have to love Tom Brokaw.Perhaps not this book, though.The problem is, most of the events described and many of the people named are either unknown to — or long-forgotten by — most Americans. This slim volume is thus more of a scrap book with enhanced captions that assumes a prior familiarity with the subjects. It doesn’t work very well to just pluck them out of history’s dust and assume readers will bond with the narrative. You almost had to be there.I was. For example, Mr. Brokaw mentions a milestone date, July 24, 1974. It was the day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon had to turn over key tape recordings to the House Judiciary Committee then considering articles of impeachment. At the time, I worked across the street as a staffer for Senator George McGovern. That morning, pretending to be a member of the press, I angled my way into a Supreme Court kitchenette serving as a makeshift press room to snag a slip opinion explaining the decision.It remains a fixed and vivid memory for me but not one that matters much to anyone else. The same can be said of many episodes in Mr. Brokaw’s book. Nice writing. Congenial, modest narrator, yet sadly, adding up to something less than the purchase price.
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