European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reviews the Haldeman diaries inside the Nocon White House by . Haldeman g. P. Putnam s sons. 7 7 77.� the elegiac mood surrounding the recent funeral for Richard Nixon will surely be interrupted if not altogether broken by the publication of this daily record of White House activities kept by Nixon a chief of staff . A Bob Quot Haldeman from january 1969, through april 1973, when Haldeman along with the president s adviser John Ehrlichman resigned under fire for his role in the watergate affair. Set Down in dry Deadpan prose the diaries give the Reader a minutely detailed portrait of a White House obsessed with image and spin control a a White House in which paranoia manipulation self pity and cynicism reigned supreme. In a foreword to the Book Haldeman a who died in november at age 67 a writes that he decided to make the diaries Public because they Quot provide valuable insights for historians journalists and scholars As Well As the general  a who served 18 months in prison after being convicted of perjury conspiracy and obstruction of Justice for his part in the watergate coverup a was renowned during his tenure in the White House for his loyalty to Nixon. Indeed Haldeman described himself in an earlier Book the ends of Power As Quot a robot Quot in service to his Bess a i was a Good machine a he wrote. Quot i was efficient i did no to require a lot of oiling Quot Nixon himself admonished his Cabinet to defer to his bristling Crew Cut wearing chief of staff. A from now on a he told them a Haldeman is the lord High executioner. Done to you come whining to me when he tells you to do something. He Wilt do it because i asked him to and you re to carry it  certainly this volume of diaries attests to Halde Many Schilly efficiency As Nixon s  a the decision to bomb Cambodia the Vietnam peace negotiations the ground breaking trip to China the 1972 re election Campaign the watergate affair Alt Are discussed Here in cold blooded terms of logistics strategy and Public relations Man Euver Ings no thought is Given to the moral consequences of the presidents actions or to their ultimate effect be it on soldiers fighting in Indochina the Public morale of the country or the Fate of the Constitution. If much of the Haldeman diaries reads like a jacobean drama a full of scheming and secrecy and skulduggery there Are also moments of out and out farce Nixon having problems getting his new dog Tim to like him Nixon watching the super bowl then making Calls about Biafra Nixon punishing his Cabinet for not being More supportive by ordering the removal of the White House Tennis court Henry Kissinger Nixon a National Security adviser worrying that Adverse stories about his dating Jill St. John were being planted by Secretary of state William Rogers. In fact the continuing Battles Between Kissinger and Rogers Are treated As a kind of comic leitmotif in this volume with Kissinger emerging As an insecure neurotic with whom a weary Haldeman must continually contend. A Michiko Kakutani new York times life Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness by Peggy Noonan random House. Before Long Noonan a firecrackers of  conserve alive political Outlook explode. A i think of new York s Street criminals As simply fascists Quot she writes. The threat of pollution to the a environment has been overrated she believes. A we Are the inheritors of a coarsened country Quot she says and adds that Hollywood is partly to blame having lost the strictures of the legion of decency that once forced the film Industry to be artful. Yet whatever you think of  opinions you read on in Thrall to the fascination of  anecdotes. In part ii titled Liberty she attends a dinner at the White House and sits next to a weepy president Bush who asks  to rejoin his speech writing team. In the hour Long delay to respond to his order for a car to take  to the Airport she detects a fatal slackness in his staff that will be confirmed when she tries to help Rescue him from defeat. Yet the alternatives do not inspire . President est Sellers . Haldeman was chief of staff from 1969 to 73. Clinton May be the third a great natural politician Quot she has seen in  life after John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan but she considers the Clinton administration already doomed to a single term. A if the republicans pick a Young Republican As their nominee for president in �?T96�?� a she Means philosophically Young a a they will not Only win but win with  but  incisive Survey of the Talent on the horizon fails to turn up much beyond Bob Dole. A v a Quot a a a a. A a a a a. A. A Christopher Lehmann Haupt not certain trumpets the Call of leaders by Garry wills Simon amp schuster. Leadership of one sort writes Walls does not necessarily translate into other areas a Gen. Grant proved that a great military commander is not necessarily by reason of his martial Success a Good political Leader in an. Electoral democracy a As Lyndon Johnson proved that a Superb Senate Leader can make a poor  Franklin Roosevelt is wills Choice As electoral Leader while Adlai Stevenson is his Choice As electoral Antitype. Ross Perot is his Choice As business Leader while Roger Smith the former chief executive officer of general motors is his Choice As business Antitype. A a Michiko Kakutani paperbacks american ground Zero the secret nuclear War by Carole Gallagher random House. Gallagher interviewed dozens of men and women to document the . Governments callous exposure of citizens in Nevada and Utah to radiation from above ground nuclear tests during 1950s. This deeply disturbing Book Only begins to explore one of the most shameful episodes of the cold War Many of the men recall seeing cages near ground Zero that held chained animals and humans. The a Day Atlas the definitive account of the Allied invasion of Normandy by John Man facts on file. 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