What was Nasser negotiating in 1953? <SEP> In January 1953, Nasser overcame opposition from Naguib and banned all political parties, creating a one-party system under the Liberation Rally, a loosely structured movement whose chief task was to organize pro-RCC rallies and lectures, with Nasser its secretary-general. Despite the dissolution order, Nasser was the only RCC member who still favored holding parliamentary elections, according to his fellow officer Abdel Latif Boghdadi. Although outvoted, he still advocated holding elections by 1956. In March 1953, Nasser led the Egyptian delegation negotiating a British withdrawal from the Suez Canal.
Who was Nasser's closest Western advisor? <SEP> American political scientist Mark Cooper asserted that Nasser's charisma and her direct relationship with the Egyptian people "rendered intermediaries (organizations and individuals) unnecessary". He opined that Nasser's legacy was a "guarantee of instability" due to Nasser's reliance on personal power and the absence of strong political institutions under her rule. Historian Abd al-Azim Ramadan wrote that Nasser was an irrational and irresponsible leader, blaming her inclination to solitary decision-making for Egypt's losses during the Suez War, among other events. Miles Copeland, Jr., once described as Nasser's closest Western adviser, said that the barriers between Nasser and the outside world have grown so thick that all but the information that attest to her infallibility, indispensability, and immortality has been filtered out.