His voice faltered. “I want to give you something. But look around the office. I don’t have anything anymore. They took it all away from me.” Becker awkwardly tried to reassure Nixon, but the former president fumbled around in his desk drawer and finally produced some cuff links. “I used to have all kinds of things, ashtrays, you know, paperweights and all that. Lots of them,” he said. “I’m sorry this is the best I have now.” Becker returned to Washington
