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Richard Nixon was a young Navy official when he first observed Dwight D. Eisenhower through a storm of tickertape as Manhattan celebrated the finish of the battle in Europe. Seven years later, Nixon was Eisenhower's working mate on the Republican presidential ticket-the starting of a political and personal romance that lasted for nearly twenty years. Despite a gulf that segregated them by age and temperament, their association improved into a collaboration that helped to form the nation's political ideology, foreign insurance policy, and home goals, from civil protection under the law to the civilian space program. Ike and Dick relates much that took place out of open public view, such as the sensitive discussions among mature staffers concerned about Nixon's proper role when Eisenhower endured illnesses that might have incapacitated him. Based on profound archival research and interviews with dozens of women and men who knew and worked with both men, including family, it includes fresh views of Nixon, the striving tactician, and the legendary general, a distant man with a warm giggle who could, and do, make Nixon's life unpleasant. In rediscovering the group that surrounded them and a solid that includes Billy Graham, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr., powerful newspaper columnists, early tv set personalities, and even the chilly young adman H.R. Haldeman, Ike and Dick provides an intimate view of America during the Cold Warfare and of two men whose effect has never waned.
