NIXON'S BOOK OFFERS INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS
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CREST [1]
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75-00149R000500440036-3
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
Document Creation Date:
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date:
December 29, 2003
Sequence Number:
36
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Publication Date:
April 8, 1962
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NSPR
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ixon's Book Offers
Interesting Sidelights
SIX CRISES by Richard M. Nix- Nixon This is one of the six "crises"
on. Doubleday. $5.95. Nixon discusses,'
The former vice president ex- The others:
plores six particularly tough sit- catapulted The Alger Nixon Hiss to case . . , which
nations he faced during eight The e political n' national fame.
years in the Eisenhower adminis- fund scandal of '52
. whe~,~Nix ixon gave his famous
tration. "Checkers" seech and defended
Much like the man himself, the his political' furd-raising friends.
book has an aura of apologism Visit to Caracas ... where
and half-truth. Many of the state- crowds stoned and spat upon him.
ments are unclear and. some of; Eisenhowdr's Wait' attack .
them have been discredited since. when he faced a choice of provid-
the publication of the book. ing leadership without usurping
But, even with those shortcom- authority that 'wasn't his.
ings, students of political science The Soviet Union tour ... when
and amateur politicians a l i k e he debated w' h