The Presidents Man, Dwight Chapin
The Presidents Man, Dwight Chapin
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The President's Man
The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

Author: Dwight Chapin

Narrator: Will Damron

Unabridged: 15 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/15/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes readers inside the life and administration of Richard Nixon.From Richard Nixon’s “You-won’t-have-Nixon-to-kick-around-anymore” 1962 gubernatorial campaign through his world-changing trips to China and the Soviet Union and epic downfall, Dwight Chapin was by his side. As his personal aide and then Deputy Assistant in the White House Chapin was with him in his most private and most public moments. He traveled with him, assisted, advised, strategized, campaigned and learned from America’s most controversial president. As Bob Haldeman’s protege, Chapin worked with Henry Kissinger in opening China—then eventually went to prison for Watergate although he had no involvement in it.In this memoir Chapin takes readers on an extraordinary historic journey; presenting an insider’s view of America’s most enigmatic President. Chapin will relate his memorable experiences with the people who shaped the future: Henry Kissinger, his close friend Bob Haldeman, Choi En-lai, Pat Nixon, the embittered Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Sinatra, Mark ""Deep Throat"" Felt, young and ambitious Roger Ailes, and John Dean. It’s a story that ranges from Coretta Scott King to Elvis Presley, from the wonder of entering a closed Chinese society to the Oval Office, and concludes with startling new insights and conclusions about the break-in that brought down Nixon’s presidency.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Dwight Chapin

Dwight Chapin served as personal aide and then Deputy Assistant to President Richard Nixon, with responsibility for the planning and execution of the president’s schedule and appearances. He served as acting Chief of Protocol for the president’s 1972 historic trip to China. After his time in the White House, Chapin was publisher of Success magazine, then Managing Director, Asia, for Hill & Knowlton public relations. For the past twenty-five years he has managed his own consulting firm focused on communications and strategic planning. He lives in Riverside, Connecticut, with his wife, Terry. The President’s Man is his first book.


Reviews

The only thing remarkable about Dwight Chapin's The President's Man, the latest in an endless line of self-exculpating Nixon memoirs, is that it was written in 2022. Chapin served as Nixon's appointments secretary and played a supporting role in Watergate; it was he who hired Donald Segretti, his US......more

Dwight Chapin's book is the latest and maybe prove to be the last consequential Nixon Whitehouse memoir to drop. This makes the book historically significant in its own right as it's a sincere memoir instead of a tell-all cash grab, feeding off the carcass of waning fame. The book is, above all else......more

Goodreads review by Erin

If you are looking for a song of praise for Richard Nixon, with glowing reviews from Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich on the back cover, then right-hand man Dwight Chapin’s memoir might be for you. (Why the allegedly progressive Morning Joe program features Mr. Chapin as a commentator, where I first lear......more