'Final Days' on Wednesday

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34127, 13 April 1976, Page 1

'Final Days ' on Wednesday

The Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of President Nixon is one of the most dramatic political events of the century. More than anyone else, two young “Washington Post” reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, were responsible for

unearthing the scandal and bringing It to the door of the President himself. Now, In a chronicle of the last agonies of the Nixon Presidency, the two reporters have gone beyond that door. Their book, “The Final Days,” has rocked the

world even before its publication next month. It traces the effects of the scandal on Nixon, his wife, Pat, and on his daughters and close aides. It provides intimate, sometimes shocking, glimpses into the mind and manners of the most powerful man in the world — his

drinking, his confusion, his talk even of suicide. And it offers telling insights into the President’s chief lieutenants — and their private views on him. The book illustrates the arrogance and obstructions as Nixon and his advisers tried to put the Presidency

beyond the law—end the step-by-step way in which evidence was gathered from the most secret administration the United States has experienced.

"The Press” has acquired the New Zealand rights to this remarkable book, and will begin serialising "The Final Days” on Wednesday.