Dwight Chapin on his former boss: ‘Richard Nixon was not a crook’
by David Smith in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#5WDXC)
The former secretary to the disgraced president talks about his new memoir and what it was like to go to prison for Nixon
He was at the side of the American president on one of the most important diplomatic trips in history, enjoying sumptuous banquets as a guest of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong.
Three and a half years later he was in prison after becoming first person to go on trial in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, despite protesting his innocence.
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