... I had just turned 16 years old when the marathon interviews entered our living room. Nixon, I thought, would be the worst president in my lifetime. How could he not be? His list of offenses seemed endless: sending young men and women to their deaths in an useless war, justified by cooked claims of impending victory; getting the IRS to audit those on an enemies list of political opponents and uncooperative journalists; asserting executive privilege in order to cover his own lawbreaking; employing dirty tricks to gain and hold power. It all was so beyond the pale, I naively...