San Clemente, California, in 1978 was the Elba of America. I went there fresh out of college for a job working as a researcher for David Eisenhower, which quickly became a job as an editorial assistant to former president Richard M. Nixon, who had finished his memoirs and moved on to the two books I worked on, “The Real War” and “Leaders.”
Early in 1980, Nixon moved to New York City, and I went with him, leaving in the fall for law school. I went back to California in 1989 at his request to oversee construction of his library in Yorba Linda, a second two-year stint with one of history’s remarkable figures.
Which is a long way of saying that my observations on President Trump’s current situation are grounded in hundreds of hours of conversation with a former president, one with great successes and the worst fall in American political history.
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