That was Nixon’s first one hundred days. A remarkably successful public relations campaign selling the new presidency as a magnanimous respite from a cacophonous era of division. A popular set of moves to clamp down on dissent, greeted by a media Establishment newly eager to kowtow to a conservative “Middle America” as eminently responsible. Already, a secret escalation of the Vietnam War. Already, Nixon’s own grand dreams that he could make the world order anew, bring new peace and stability to the globe.
