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From: The President: Richard Nixon’s Secret Files, edited by Bruce Oudes (Harper & Row, 661 pp., $22.50)

This compilation of memos from the Nixon White House is already a best-seller among the Nixon-obsessed, who will be poring over it, collecting further evidence of the famous Nixonian weirdness. They won’t be disappointed. Indeed, even the unobsessed cannot help being intermittently fascinated by the question: Just how weird was Richard Nixon?

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From: The President: Richard Nixon’s Secret Files, edited by Bruce Oudes (Harper & Row, 661 pp., $22.50)

This compilation of memos from the Nixon White House is already a best-seller among the Nixon-obsessed, who will be poring over it, collecting further evidence of the famous Nixonian weirdness. They won’t be disappointed. Indeed, even the unobsessed cannot help being intermittently fascinated by the question: Just how weird was Richard Nixon?