The Nixon crisis of 1973-74 threatened the state in ways not immediately understood. Stripped of drama  and  confusion, however, the problem was that the President had placed himself above the law. The nation had to decide whether that could be allowed. Theodore H. White starts this story with the last days of Richard Nixon in the White House–as those closest recognized he’d deceived them  and  that they must force him out. He follows the thread of manipulation back to its origin 20 years earlier  and  shows how the Nixon team came to see politics as war without quarter, in which the White House was a command post where ordinary rules didn’t apply, where power could be used without restraint. Let justice be done The politics of manipulation Poor Richard: how things work The team: from politics to power The White House of Richard Nixon: from style to heresy The underground: from crime to conspiracy Victory 1972: design for control The tapes: a tour inside the mind of Richard Nixon The systems respond: Spring 1973 Firestorm: Fall 1973 The question period: Winter-Spring 1974 Judgment: Summer 1974 Breach of faith Appendix A: The articles of impeachment Appendix B: Richard Nixon’s farewell statement, 8 8 74

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