Volume 35, Number 12 · July 21, 1988
Rx from RN
By James Fallows
1999: Victory Without War
by Richard Nixon
Simon and Schuster, 336 pp., $19.95
At age seventy-five, Richard Nixon still seems to be evading an important truth about himself: the reason he remains such a fascinating figure is not that Americans are looking to him for foreign policy advice. There are plenty of policy experts, but there is only one Nixon. Nixon is engrossing as a politician who has endured astonishing ups and downs, who never gives up, and who still has the mind of a canny political operator. The most interesting and newsworthy parts of his public appearances this spring were not his observations about world affairs but his purely political comments—why Jackson was unexpectedly strong, why Bush remains weak, how big an issue the 'sleaze factor' would be for the Democrats. If he wanted, Nixon could be a panelist much in demand on Washington's political talk shows.
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