Nixon's Ten Commandments of Statecraft, by James Humes
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Nixon's Ten Commandments of Statecraft:
His Guiding Principles of Leadership and Negotiation
By Richard Nixon,
with Commentary and Lessons from History by James C. Humes
BOOK REVIEW:
This book is arranged in 10 chapters, with Nixon's writing on each topic, then a commentary from an historian on an historical figure with a parallel lesson. The historical figures range from Pericles to Winston Churchill.
Click here for 4 full quotes from Richard Nixon in the book Ten Commandments of Statecraft.
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Foreign Policy
Nixon’s Ten Commandments of Statecraft.
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Homeland Security
Supported missile defense as means to achieve SALT.
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Principles & Values
Conserve concessions; get something in exchange for each one.
Doggedly pursued Alger Hiss; made his name in House.
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The above quotations are from Nixon's Ten Commandments of Statecraft, by James Humes.
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