Nixon’s brushes Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa and how Attorney General Richard Kleindienst acted to dissuade the president from becoming irreparably entangled. One of the most interesting details of the book is the author’s analysis of Mr. president and what intercessions were required. The book was released before the secret documents about the Kennedy assassination were released last year.īut the national upheaval surrounding Kennedy’s death does not eclipse the task at hand: following and chronicling the darkest crime figures of the 1960s, how they influenced a U.S. But he takes pains to note that the reason he wrote the book so many years after the events it describes is because assembling the data, especially the missing facts crucial to finding the truth about the Kennedy assassination, required the time. Nixon and the official assessment of what happened in Dallas. Ford was one the doubters of the Warren findings yet had a lot to lose by not offering some backing to Mr. He is also critical of the performance of former President Gerald Ford, implying that Mr. He questions the various conspiracy theories, but dismisses the idea that the assassination was carried out only by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Kennedy’s death, and he takes a dim view of the proceedings of the Warren Commission. Fulsom writes bitterly of what he feels is still left out of the investigation of John F. Nixon, the politician he describes as “the most violent man to occupy the Oval Office.” He terms the sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks in 1968 as “the most wicked action in American history” and adds, “At the least Nixon could well have had insider’s knowledge of what really happened in the streets of Dallas on that dreadful day of November 22, 1963.” History will inevitably adjudicate that charge. Fulsom makes some stunning allegations, asserting that the assassination of political rivals was within the realm of possibility for Mr. Nixon’s total campaign spending at $25 million compared to the $5 million Hubert Humphrey spent.Īnd Mr. Nixon was, in fact “the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House.” The author estimates that $400,000 to $2 million of Mafia money poured into Mr.

Fulsom, who is the former United Press International (UPI) bureau chief, charges that Mr. Nixon was elected president, various photographs of him holding hands with mob members surfaced.

Nixon's Darkest Secrets by Don Fulsom