Nixon: "Composed, Almost at Ease"

It seems to have been a few of Republican leaders, Senators Hugh Scott (PA), Barry Goldwater (AZ) and Congressman John Rhodes (AZ), who pushed President Nixon over, persuading that he had no other way. Dr. Kissinger does not tell us in what words Nixon described his decision to resign. Dr. Kissinger only writes, “Nixon turned when he heard me. He seemed very composed, almost at ease. He had decided to resign, he said. The Republican leaders had reinforced his instinct that there was not enough support left in the Congress to justify a struggle…”

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I moved on to a book by Alistair Horne, “Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year,” that covers the same period as “Years of Upheaval.”