The fall of Richard Nixon - Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw recounts the endgame of the Watergate scandal and the Nixon presidency in real time, from his perspective in the press corps as a young White House correspondent for NBC News. The NBC News White House correspondent during the final year of Watergate, Tom Brokaw gives us a close-up, personal account of the players, the strategies, and the highs and lows of the scandal that brought down a President. Readers are brought intimately into the White House press corps as reporters try to sort out the lies and strategies to keep Richard Nixon in the White House. The last year of the Nixon presidency was filled with power politics, legal jiu-jitsu, and high-stakes showdowns with head-shaking surprises every day. As Brokaw writes: "Even now, almost a half century later, I am astonished by what the country went through and I wanted to share press stories from the inside looking out."