Behind Closed Doors

In the Room with Reagan & Nixon

By: Ken Khachigian

Narrated by: Dean Gallagher

Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

A compelling insider's account by the trusted adviser and confidante to America's presidential giants and political legends as he draws the curtains back on his most private moments with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon during revolutionary changes in our economy, politics, communications, foreign policy, and culture.

"Ken Khachigian has written the most lucid, most important work about the postwar period. For an inside look at how ugly politics can be-and how noble-you cannot miss this book. I still love Ken after fifty years and you will, too, when you read this jewel of a memoir." -Ben Stein, economist, law professor, multi-Emmy-awarded actor, speechwriter for presidents Nixon and Ford, novelist, and screenwriter

"This is essential reading for anyone wanting to know how Ronald Reagan shaped his crusading message of economic growth through tax cuts and limited government. Khachigian's is a fascinating account by one who takes you into the rooms where the decisions were made." -Larry Kudlow, host of Fox Business Network's Kudlow and former director, National Economic Council

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How I saved Nixon and Reagan

This volume embraces an extremely interesting subject. Told by a stereotypical Washington wonk who, like so many of his kind, are consummate self-promoters and ruthless maligners of others in the arena, particularly some who accomplished so much more in American affairs than he did. Like trout during a caddis hatch, climbing over everyone else to enable their noses to break the surface and snap the prize. Particularly unnerving was a third-grade editorial mistake by the narrator who repeatedly pronounced Lima (like the bean), Ohio as if it were a city in Peru. Fingernails on a chalkboard. Mr. Khachigian colloquially refers to himself as a "word donkey," but his work reveals him to be a word jackass in disguise.