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Hello, on today's program, we go behind the scenes to see real diplomacy in action.

I'll be hearing the other side of Australia's history from a leading light of the indigenous

writing scene,

and who remembers tricky-dicky?

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every

instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency

effective at noon tomorrow. Part of the resignation speech of Richard Nixon from August

1974 following his cover-up of the Watergate scandal, the only president to ever leave the

Oval Office in such fashion. This lonely, paranoid, fallen man is the surprising inspiration for the main character of

A.M. Holmes' latest book, May We Be Forgiven? An absolute whirlwind of a read that within a few

pages has seen the death of two characters, the incarceration of another, infidelity, the

orphaning of a child, a terminal act of revenge

and an adoption. Academic and Nixon obsessive Harold is our companion on this eventful journey

when his dull life is ruptured by his super-successful brother George, who having caused a terrible

road accident, commits an even more he heinous crime within his own home.

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