The Sunshine Empire

It is our belief that Theodore Roosevelt is the finest man ever to serve in the Executive Office Of The President since the dawn of the Republic.  Yet our favorite has always been Richard M. Nixon.  We say that merely as the villain that you love but hate.  Yet the Presidency of Nixon is instructive to our current political climate and how most in power in the Bush administration view that as the point when the Presidency was at it’s most powerful, then eviscerated.  The politics of the ’70′s during the age of Nixon, and his downfall after the Watergate break in is fully chronicled in the masterful work Breach Of Faith: The Fall Of Richard Nixon.  Theodore H. White wrote the definative accounts of the elections of 1960, 1964, and 1968.  Although he wrote an account of the ’72 election a book that will be featured later is a finer account in our humble opinion.  This book gives the inner working of a secretive administration, and the difference in the reaction of the public and Congress is instructive as it relates to the present day.

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