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Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared.
But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media.
Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive. Using presidential documents, diaries, prosecutorial records and hundreds of interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward chronicles how all five men failed first to understand and then to manage the inquisitorial environment.
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20th century, History, Influence, Politics and government, Presidents, United States, Watergate Affair, 1972-1974, Nixon, Richard M. 1913- -- Influence, Presidents, united states, United states, history, 20th century, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, United states, politics and government, 1989-, Nixon, richard m. (richard milhous), 1913-1994People
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1999, Simon & Schuster
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1999, Wheeler Pub.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [518]-572) and index.
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