The Last of the President's Men
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"Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets, obsessions and deceptions."--provided by publisher.
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Interviews with Alex Butterfield, the man who disclosed the Nixon tapes. I had never heard of Butterfield and it turns out he lives near me. It's pretty thin ... he was one of the few who knew about the tapes, he was almost not interviewed so the tapes may have never been disclosed ... but he was and he appears to be a man who holds a grudge, felt he was treated rudely by Nixon the day they first met ... so was that the motivation for the disclosure? It would have been good as a chapter in a more detailed Watergate or Nixon Presidency book but hard to make a full book over just this. Unless you are extremely interested in this particular segment of the story. But of course I love Woodward and the Post are why I majored in Journalism and I can't fault Woodward's writing or digging into the sources.
