The Last Liberal Republican
The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixon's senior domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price--a member of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, a cofounder of the Ripon Society,…
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The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixon's senior domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price--a member of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, a cofounder of the Ripon Society, and an employee on Nelson Rockefeller's campaigns--joined Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and later John D. Ehrlichman, in the Nixon White House to develop domestic policies, especially on welfare, hunger, and health. Based on those policies, and the internal White House struggles around them, Price places Nixon firmly in the liberal Republican tradition of President Theodore Roosevelt, New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, and President Eisenhower.Price makes a valuable contribution to our evolving scholarship and understanding of the Nixon presidency. Nixon himself lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and China. The Last Liberal Republican provides firsthand