By: jliedl
Nixonland’s on my summer to-read list – a bit of a stretch for this early modernist but it sounds as if it’s a fascinating read. Having read Perlstein’s earlier book, I’m interested in seeing how this...
View ArticleBy: Tenured_Radical
The not-so-new-anymore archivist at Yorba Linda is (by all accounts) fantastic, and has handled beautifully the transition from the more hagiographic presidential library to a professionally managed...
View ArticleBy: Patrick S. O'Donnell
I’m awaiting a copy of Stanley I. Kutler’s The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1990). Any strong opinions of this book? And I suspect that in many ways it was the Pentagon Papers...
View ArticleBy: Rick Perlstein
Clair, the argument that RN’s reelection was virtually assured when Watergate happened ain’t so–not on June 17, and certainly not when they first put in the bugs they were breaking into the DNC the...
View ArticleBy: Tenured_Radical
Nice Rick — thanks for this. You are the one who has done the research, and knows the intimate details of what CREEP was thinking. I was going by Nixon’s job approval ratings, which were 62% in June...
View ArticleBy: jluchok
While speculation about what would have happened we will never know. Sometimes the most likely thing never happens. Had Watergate not happened it is still possible that events would happened by 1976...
View ArticleBy: hmcleaver
Marginal note: Jimmy Carter was hardly an “outsider”; he came to be the democratic candidate through the Trilateral Commission, of which he was a member, and proceeded to appoint roughly 20 of its...
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In an electoral sense, Carter most certainly was an outsider: he was barely known outside the state of Georgia; and he was our first President to openly profess his spiritual life as a born-again...
View ArticleBy: westtexas
The other shocking thing about Watergate is how hard it is to find/see the tapes of the hearings.
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