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[Book #19784] Nixon: A Life. Jonathan Aitken

Nixon: A Life

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1993. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. 26 cm. xiv, 633, [1] pages. Illustrations. Principal Sources. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Minor sticker residue on rear DJ. Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is an Irish-born British former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom (1974–97), and a former Cabinet minister. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. Aitken was a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. After becoming a Christian, he later became the president of Christian Solidarity Worldwide and was ordained in the Church of England. He served as a war correspondent during the 1960s in Vietnam and Biafra, and gained a reputation for risk-taking when he took LSD in 1966 as an experiment for an article in the London Evening Standard and had a bad trip. He was also a journalist at Yorkshire Television from 1968 to 1970, presenting the regional news show Calendar. Aitken was the first person to be seen on screen from Yorkshire Television when it began broadcasting. In 1970, Aitken was acquitted at the Old Bailey for breaching section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, when he photocopied a report about the British government's supply of arms to Nigeria, and sent a copy to The Sunday Telegraph and to Hugh Fraser, a pro-Biafran Tory MP. Aitken's favorable biography, Nixon: A Life, of former US President Richard Nixon, was published in 1993. Although his was not an authorized biography, Aitken was one of the few biographers from whom Nixon accepted questions and to whom he granted interviews. More

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[Book #8222] Ambassador from the Prairie or Allison Wonderland. John M. Allison

Ambassador from the Prairie or Allison Wonderland

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 400 pages. Illustrations. Index. Some ink underlining and marks noted. The DJ is somewhat soiled and creased: some wear to top and bottom edges. John Moore Allison (April 7, 1905 – October 28, 1978) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 1953 to 1957. From 1957 to 1958, he was Ambassador to Indonesia and from 1958 to 1960 to Czechoslovakia. He was later a professor at the University of Hawaii. Allison earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Nebraska in 1927. Allison worked as an English teacher,including at the Imperial Japanese Naval Engineer Officers Academy. Allison joined the Foreign Service in 1932. On January 26, 1938, Allison, American consul in Nanjing, was struck by a Japanese soldier. This incident is known as the "Allison Incident." Japanese Consul-General Katsuo Okazaki formally apologized. After Japan's surrender, he served in various State Department leadership positions covering Japan and the Far East from 1946 to 1952. Allison participated in the drafting of the Treaty of San Francisco, serving as John Foster Dulles's aide during the negotiation of the treaty. Allison was named United States Ambassador to Japan in 1953. In March 1954, 16 years after the "Allison Incident," Allison and the man who had apologized to him in Nanjing, Japanese Foreign Minister Okazaki, signed the U.S. and Japan Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement on behalf of their respective countries. After his mentor John Foster Dulles died in 1959, Allison retired from the Foreign Service in 1960. More

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