Best Book of the Year: Nixon's Comrades: A Kremlin Note Taker Remembers
I have just finished one of the best books I have read this year and possibly this century - Nixon's Comrades. Nixon was clearly a complex figure and it is difficult to know how history might have portrayed him had Watergate not happened. As I have said in previous blogs he achieved a lot of positive actions the setting up of EPA, supporting the establishment of UNFPA and UNEP. America could have had universal health coverage in 1972 if they had accepted the proposal he put forward - similar to what Obama did in 2008 - 36 years later - bringing China into the family of nations as a UN member. This book also shows the role he played in making the world a little safer. I grew up during the cold war and the real threat of a nuclear summer. MAD for us was not only a great marvel comic but stood for Mutely Assured Destruction (MAD). I have always been an a avid reader of political books such as Robert Kennedy's Thirteen Days: A Memoi...