These sections both are packed with tremendous reporting and detail, from what various characters were thinking to what was written on a piece of paper folded inside someone’s pocket to the throwaway line that Henry Kissinger had a pornographic novel with him on a diplomatic trip abroad. The second section devotes a chapter to each day of Nixon’s final week in office. It focuses mainly on Nixon’s White House taping system, which recorded him participating in the Watergate coverup, and the legal wrangling over the president releasing those tapes.
The first provides context about the months leading up to Nixon’s departure, basically picking up where Woodward and Bernstein’s first book, the iconic ‘All the President’s Men,’ leaves off. But what ‘The Final Days’ lacks in style and energy it makes up for in substance and detail.
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