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We're talking to Dwight Chapin, who's the author of the President's Man,

the Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aid, and Dwight just to reprise things.

You're an extremely young man in your 20s when you serve Nixon in the White House.

In this book, you go into all of those details and the stories, but I was just asking you about

current events and you were reflecting on how the presidency has changed and how Nixon,

obviously, of an older school was willing to be less a friend of the people.

It's an interesting thing. I think this has to do with the advent of the media and

social media. It's very difficult for someone like a Trump, for example, to maintain that distance,

that Twitter gave him immediate access and that has an upside and a downside.

Yes. Nixon's focused and thought about how do you lead? I mean, this was something he studied.

Let's take Vietnam, for an example. With the Vietnam War, I forget the exact number.

He went on national television like seven times, had maps, had arrows. He took the public along with him.

That's why when he was elected into office in 1968 and he won an overwhelming majority.

He won everything except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

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