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<text id=90TT0275>
<title>
Jan. 29, 1990: A Regular Guy
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 29, 1990 Who Is The NRA?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BOOKS, Page 76
A Regular Guy
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<qt> <l>RICHARD NIXON AND HIS AMERICA</l>
<l>by Herbert S. Parmet</l>
<l>Little, Brown; 755 pages; $24.95</l>
</qt>
<p> Making Richard Nixon seem ordinary is no easy task, but
Herbert Parmet almost pulls it off. A respected historian, he
spent six years burrowing into various archives and interviewing
just about every living soul who has encountered the 37th
President--as well as the man himself, a feat few Nixon
biographers can match. Unfortunately, it yielded no major
scoops.
</p>
<p> Parmet's Nixon is not the driven, tortured, fascinating
schemer of popular memory or Watergate fame. In fact, that
career-ending scandal merits only six pages at the book's close.
Instead, Parmet paints Nixon as a regular guy, a mediator
between the forces of welfare statism and cold war red bashing.
Every rap against the former President--from his 1952 slush
fund to the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam--is
thoroughly ventilated and, in most cases, dismissed. Nixon, says
Parmet, was merely a child of his times, who "harnessed the
unease that lay just below the surface of celebratory blessings
of the American existence." Nixon is more interesting than
that. He deepened the unease, and in the end paid heavily for
it.
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