I'm a longtime journalist and author in Washington. Before I turned to writing full time, I was the Washington enterprise editor at USA TODAY, where I supervised our coverage of the White House, military, money in politics and health care. I worked with a team working on investigative reporting throughout our Washington bureau. Nixon's Gamble is my first book and is the result of years of interest in Nixon and current events. Haig's Coup is the follow-up volume, which digs more deeply into how Alexander Haig, Nixon's chief of staff, forced Nixon from office.
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After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that government will listen. Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in. But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government by signi... SEE MORE