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Ebook About In this compelling, smart, and well-researched dual biography, Chris Matthews shows how the contest between the charismatic John F. Kennedy and the talented yet haunted Richard Nixon propelled America toward Vietnam and Watergate.John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon each dreamed of becoming the great young leader of their age. First as friends, then as bitter enemies, they were linked by a historic rivalry that changed both them and their country. Fresh, entertaining, and revealing, Kennedy & Nixon reveals that the early fondness between the two men—Kennedy, for example, told a trusted friend that if he didn’t receive the Democratic nomination in 1960, he would vote for Nixon—degenerated into distrust and bitterness. Using White House tapes, this book exposes Richard Nixon’s dread of a Kennedy “restoration” in 1972 drove the dark deeds of Watergate. "Matthews tells his stories well, and Americans have a seemingly bottomless need to have these stories retold" (The New York Times Book Review).Book Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America Review :
Kennedy and Nixon, like Tip and the Gipper, is Chris Matthews' comparison and contrast of leadingpolitical figures. Their friendship and rivalry, their love/hate relationship, defined the postwarCongress beginning in 1947. Matthews interprets Kennedy as Mozart and Nixon as Salieri. Helooks at their college fraternities and describes Nixon's tragic flaw to be resentment, whileKennedy is characterized by contempt.They were friends from the beginning and among the smartest members of Congress. Theyshared anti-Communism and criticism of FDR at Yalta and figures like Henry Wallace. Thisfriendship continued all the way to Nixon's presidency when he invited Jackie, Carolineand John-John back to the White House. The correspondence between them is quiteremarkable. Nixon appreciated the Cold War rhetoric of Kennedy's inaugural address.Nixon advanced faster in the early days. He made his name in the Alger Hiss case anda number of brutal campaigns. While Nixon found one communist, Joe McCarthy tookit a bit further and claimed to have hundreds. But both Nixon and JFK were sympatheticand felt that McCarthy was basically on the right side, as did Joe Kennedy Sr. Jack wasinsulted when Hiss and McCarthy were mentioned with moral equivalence. Hiss wasa traitor and McCarthy a patriot.The rivalry began in 1956 when Kennedy sought to be vice-president, which went toEstes Kefauver. The eloquent Stevenson was another liberal foil. In the election of1960, Kennedy took on Humphrey and Johnson and Stevenson remained in thepicture. Then there were the famous debates between Kennedy and Nixon, whereKennedy's image prevailed and Nixon conceded a lot to his opponent.Matthews gives a lot of insight into the later Nixon's primary emotional issue ofparanoia. It had to do with the ghost of JFK, haunting Tricky Dick through Bobbyand then Teddy. Although the Democrats eventually nominated George McGovern,Teddy was feared as a potential stronger candidate, and was indeed a fierce partisanagainst Nixon. This was the source of a lot of the paranoia, and the dirty tricks ofNixon were to some extent learned from the ruthless tactics of JFK, and the beliefthat he had stolen Chicago and therefore the election. Matthews also providesinsights into the various advisors, Sorenson, Haldeman, Colson etc. Every four years, we see a revving up of the presidential race, and dozens of men and women are feted as potential candidates. Until November of election year, campaign ads, leaflets, and commercials continue to air, and Americans will grow increasingly tired of seeing them. These modern trends of campaigning are a relatively new occurrence, however. The first presidential election that feels familiar was the 1960 contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. An interesting chronicle of their relationship in the years prior and subsequent to that election is this book by Chris Matthews.“Like a pair of unmatched bookends,” is how Richard Nixon described their first year in Congress in 1946. Both men, despite the disparities in their wealth and social backgrounds, had many things in common. Nixon and Kennedy each lived in the shadow of a charismatic brother who died young, each was brighter than the rest of their family, and each had served in the Second World War when they had employment opportunities that would have legally exempted them from service. So when the congressional leadership assigned them each a space at the end of the hallway of the House Office Building in Washington, D.C., it is not surprising they became friends. One charming anecdote Matthews relates is that they debated one another on a new labor bill in 1947 in Pennsylvania. They took an overnight train back to the capital afterwards, and shared the same sleeper car. Deciding who would get the top bunk, they flipped a coin (Nixon won) and ended up spending the whole night talking. Eventually they became so close that Kennedy and his family donated $1,000 to Nixon’s Senate campaign in 1950. Two years later, Kennedy followed him into that chamber as Nixon moved on to be Vice President under Eisenhower. They were still across the hallway from one another, however, as Nixon as Vice President was the presiding officer of the Senate.The relationship continued to develop, with Nixon being the only outside party ever invited to Kennedy’s birthday parties that his staff held. He was also invited to Kennedy’s wedding to Jacqueline Beauvoir. Nixon returned the favor by complimenting Kennedy to the press. However, as 1960 approached and each was likely to be the nominee for their respective political party, the relationship began to fray. By the first debate, each was resorting to calling the other dishonest and soft on communism. It was also a race that changed the way we viewed candidates. Beforehand, outside of local officials, most politicians were visible only by newspaper or radio. The television instead carried the image of the candidate into the home of the voter. It also saw an increase in the personal animosity of attacks. In November, Kennedy won by an incredibly narrow margin and Nixon suspected the election had been stolen from him. Although Kennedy offered Nixon as a position in his cabinet, Nixon declined and their friendship never repaired itself.With Kennedy’s death in 1963, Nixon saw a new opportunity and achieved his lifelong ambition of the presidency in 1968. He, however, feared another Kennedy, Teddy, would challenge him in 1972 and this led to the introduction of many surveillance practices that would ultimately culminate in the Watergate scandal. Nixon resigned and politically became a pariah. In his later years, however, as he tried to repair his image, Nixon would speak fondly of their early friendship. One of the saddest aspects of this is that most presidents, whatever their political party, become friends in retirement because of the simple fact so few can relate to the pressures of the job.Matthews does an excellent job of illuminating how presidential politics has always been a dirty business. Although people may now complain about the decline in civility, this book emphasizes how the language has long been that way (and sometimes in even stronger tones). With Nixon and Kennedy, you had two men who had genuinely liked each other, only to see that relationship destroyed by each’s ambition. Chris Matthews himself is best known today as a political commentator, but in this book he also shows his talents as a historian, mining many of his old political friendships for the anecdotes that make up the most interesting portions of this book. 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