WaPo's review of Fear
It’s hard to imagine a more disturbing portrait of a president than the one Bob Woodward painted of Richard Nixon in his final days: paranoid, poisoned by power, pounding the carpet and talking to the portraits on the walls. But the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, as recounted by Woodward in his new book, “Fear,” are strikingly similar and in some ways even more gut-wrenching. Then, as now, the country faced a crisis of leadership caused by a president’s fatal flaws and inability to function in the job.
In both “Fear” and “The Final Days,” which he co-authored with Carl Bernstein, Woodward shows how a federal criminal investigation clouds and then comes to obsess a president and paralyze the operations of the White House. At a moment when feverish talk of presidential impeachment dominates the political discourse, “Fear” is full of Nixonian echoes, including Trump’s childishly short attention span and refusal to read briefing papers. Nixon’s aides were instructed not to give him anything more complicated than a Reader’s Digest article.
“Fear” is an important book, not only because it raises serious questions about the president’s basic fitness for the office but also because of who the author is. Woodward’s dogged investigative reporting led to Nixon’s resignation. He has written or co-authored 18 books, 12 of them No. 1 bestsellers; broken other major stories as a reporter and associate editor of The Washington Post; and won two Pulitzer Prizes. His work has been factually unassailable. (His judgment is certainly not perfect, and he has been self-critical about his belief, based on reporting before the Iraq War, that there were weapons of mass destruction.)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/bob-woodwards-meticulous-frightening-look-inside-the-trump-white-house/2018/09/06/b30ebc5e-b1e6-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.37fe3bfd8a45
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If you trust the Washington Post.., and
If you trust Bob Woodward
If you trust the "free press"
Then.........Woodward is right, and almost everything Trump says is a lie and is wrong
Think back, .....who has a better reputation for telling the truth?.................case closed. 
Its release date is September 11th, by the way
I hope people remember that the HUGE HUGE difference between Nixon and Drumpf is that Nixon was a lawyer, a U.S. civil service worker, a Naval Officer (in WW2), a U.S. Congressman for 3 terms, and a U.S. Senator for 2 years before being elected Eisenhower's Vice President (and in that position for 8 years) - all before he became President (for 1.5 terms).
So Nixon knew exactly how government worked, literally from the very bottom to the very top.
Compare and contrast with what befouls the WH at the moment. 
They may have behaved the same way when cornered but they did so from 2 polar opposite perspectives.
when you have anyone who has managed to situate himself far below "Tricky Dick" while in the WH.
given what happens to "everything he touches". 
