On August 10, Nixon took an evening cruise on the Sequoia with Billy Graham. “The P went into considerable detail on his leadership decadence theory at dinner,” Haldeman recorded. The problem, said the president, was not the “hippies or youth,” but rather “our leadership class”—the ministers (“except for the Billy-Graham type fundamentalists”), the teachers, the business leaders, the politicians—who had “become soft.”7
Leadership Decadence
