After the Fall

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On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon became the first and only U.S. president to resign from office to avoid almost certain impeachment. Utterly disgraced, he was forced to flee the White House with a small cadre of advisors and family. Richard Nixon was a completely defeated man. Yet only a decade later, Nixon was a trusted advisor to presidents, dispensing wisdom on campaign strategy and foreign policy, shaping the course of U.S.-Soviet summit meetings, and representing the U.S. at state funerals the very model of an elder statesman. How did he do it? Nixon leveraged his still sharp mind, his peerless political instincts, his deep connections with foreign leaders but, above all, his stubborn refusal to accept defeat to achieve a political restoration as astonishing as the fall that preceded it. -- Amazon.com