A review by judyward
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward

3.0

Just when we think that we have heard everything about the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodward publishes another book, this time a brief examination of Alexander Butterfield who left a career in the Air Force to work for Bob Haldeman in the Nixon White House. Butterfield was promoted to Deputy Assistant to the President from 1969 to 1973 and he paints a picture of Nixon as an intelligent but extremely petty and vindictive man. Butterfield was the staffer who oversaw the installation of the secret taping system in the Oval Office and it was Butterfield who revealed the existence of that taping system to the Watergate Committee on national television. The text is augmented by dozens of documents, most of them originials, that Butterfield took with him when he left the White House to become the chairman of the Federal Aviation Administration.