"The Last of the President's Men" (Simon & Schuster), by Bob Woodward. Simon and Schuster via AP
For Bob Woodward, former President Richard Nixon and “the president’s men” who surrounded him are the gift that keeps on giving.
His latest book is about Alexander Butterfield, the military officer who parlayed his college friendship with H.R. “Bob” Haldeman at UCLA into a job years later as Haldeman’s deputy in the inner circle of Nixon’s White House. Butterfield’s variety of assignments gave him a front-row seat to witness one of the more politically skilled, socially awkward and bitterly partisan occupants ever to serve in the White House.
