I Want to Make One Thing Perfectly Clear

1971, 1972 Ballantine edition
Compiled by Amram M. Ducovny
Illustrations by Peter Green
I Want to Make One Thing Perfectly Clear: The Illuminations of Richard M. Nixon
Original price $1.00, purchase price 50 cents
Falling apart paperback with stains
B-

This is better than The Begatting of a President because, one, it has direct quotes from Nixon, and two, Green's illustrations are actually pretty good.  The most interesting thing about it is how Nixon would contradict himself years, months, weeks, days, or in the case of a television interview, a minute later.  It does get to be a bit one-note after awhile, and I can't help wishing the book had come out a year or two later, so as to include Watergate. 

If Ducovny's name looks familiar, it's because his son is actor David, who put the H back into their last name after Amram took it out to avoid mispronunciation.  Amram died in 2003, only two years after publishing his first novel, Coney.  I haven't read it, but this book shows he was good at compiling at least.