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October 1988

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Richard Nixon remains the most enigmatic of American Presidents. He has been around longer than any other public man in the West, apart from Francois Mitterrand. We ought to know everything about him by now. Yet we know very little.


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Paul Johnson is the author of Modern Times, A History of Christianity, and A History of the Jews, among many other books.

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