“He is heard talking almost endlessly about what would be good for him, his place in history and, above all, his grudges, animosities and schemes for revenge,” the two men write, “The dog that never seems to bark is any discussion of what is good and necessary for the wellbeing of the nation.
Nixon died in 1994 and was controversially pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford, after his resignation in August 1974. Nixon went on to try and rehabilitate his reputation with a series of books and foreign trips.
Speaking on CBS News’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Woodward and Bernstein said that President Ford had later told them that he had granted the pardon not for Nixon’s sake, or for his own, “but for the good the country. We had to get over Watergate.”
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