The 1960s and 1970s were a turbulent time in the United States. As turbulent as those times were, the past decade seems to be a mirror image of those years. While reading Dwight Chapin’s memoir “The President’s Man: The Memoirs of Nixon’s Trusted Aide,” one begins to view the modern political world through his historical lens.
Chapin was one of President Richard Nixon’s most trusted aides, eventually being sentenced to prison as part of the Watergate fallout. But this memoir is not simply about Watergate and its fallout, or even what led up to it. This book is about the hopes and dreams and realities experienced by the author and those around him in the Nixon White House.
