THE ultimate political triumphoverwhelming re-election to the nation's highest officewas behind him. He had turned a mature 60 and his Inauguration this week for his new and final term was only days away. Yet the question lingered: What was success doing to Richard Nixon? The early evidence was disturbing. Silent, secretive and still suspicious, he seemed to be reaching, in a mood strangely compounded of euphoria and truculence, for greater power.
If that is indeed his intended course, a rare opportunity for more constructive leadership will have been ignored. The President who...
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