HTY/POL 301 Career Prep and HTY 339: Historiographical Essays and HTY 499/POL 499 Senior Seminar: Nixon

A historical look at the Watergate Affair examining its political significance and its influence on Richard Nixon's place in history.

Preparing for the first trial -- The trial begins -- Searching for the truth -- Verdict -- The McCord letter -- Sentences and appeals -- The battle for the tapes -- The claim of executive privilege -- Saturday-night massacre -- Confrontation -- The eighteen-minute gap -- Listening to the tapes -- The countdown begins -- Last desperate ploy -- The pardon -- Lawyers, defendants, and jurors -- Trials and judgments -- Justice is done -- Appendix. Transcripts: Meeting between the President and H.R. Haldeman, June 23, 1972 from 10:04 to 11:39 A.M. ; Meeting between the President and H.R. Haldeman, June 23, 1972 from 1:04 to 1:13 P.M. -- Opinions. Sustaining subpoena issued to Richard Nixon, August 29, 1973 by Judge Sirica ; On Nixon's appeal to the U.S. Court of appeals, October 12, 1973 ; On releasing evidence to the House Judiciary Committee, March 18, 1974 by Judge Sirica ; On the release of tapes, Supreme Court, July 24, 1974 by Chief Justice Warrren E. Burger ; On Liddy's motion for reduction of sentence, June 20, 1975 by Judge Sirica.

Working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful figures in America in the second half of the twentieth century. While their personalities could hardly have seemed more different, both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition, driven by their own inner demons, and often ruthless in pursuit of their goals. Tapping into a wealth of recently declassified archives, Robert Dallek uncovers fascinating details about Nixon and Kissinger's tumultuous personal relationship and brilliantly analyzes their shared roles in monumental historical events--including the nightmare of Vietnam, the unprecedented opening to China, d#65533;tente with the Soviet Union, the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, the disastrous overthrow of Allende in Chile, and the scandal of Watergate.

From acclaimed biographer Stephen E. Ambrose comes the life of one of the most elusive and intriguing American political figures, Richard M. Nixon. From his difficult boyhood and earnest youth to bis ruthless political campaigns for Congress and Senate to his defeats in '60 and '62, Nixon emerges li

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