"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of
God." - Matthew 5:9
"I don't think any president has been more wrongly persecuted than
Nixon, ever. I just think he was a saint." - Ben Stein
From Ben Stein, New York Times bestselling author, humorist and former
speech writer for both Nixon and Ford administrations - a powerful (and
humorous) thinker on economics, politics, education and history and
motivation - a personal memoir of his friend Richard Nixon: The man,
patriot, president, peacemaker and visionary.
The Richard Nixon Stein remembers and lovingly describes has almost
nothing to do with the Richard Nixon as portrayed in most media. In
Stein's view, Richard Nixon was a born peacemaker, a saint. Stein
believes Nixon was tortured, abused, beat up by the Beautiful People,
but through it all, above all, he was a peacemaker, a trait he inherited
from his Quaker mother.
Nixon's goal, as he often explained to Stein and others on his staff,
was to create "a generation of peace." And Stein argues he did it; Nixon
gave the United States the longest sustained period of peace since World
War II. In Stein's view, if we no longer have to fear Russian ICBMs
screaming out of hell to start nuclear war, we can thank the shade of
Richard Nixon.
Why did the media hate him so much? Stein argues it was because Nixon
was vulnerable and showed it when attacked. He did not have the tough
hide of a Reagan or an Obama. Like the schoolyard bullies they are, the
media went after Nixon for his vulnerability.
An insider's account of Nixon the man, president and peacemaker, The
Peacemaker: Nixon: The Man, President and My Friend will make you
reconsider the life and legacy of 37th President of the United States.
