Tag Archives: Richard Nixon

C-SPAN: Booknotes With Brian Lamb- Leonard Garment: Crazy Rhythm (1997)

Source:The New Democrat Len Garment was a friend and law partner of Richard Nixon in the mid and late 1960s and then went on to work in President Nixon’s White House in 1969 and the early 1970s. I believe he … Continue reading

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The Associated Press: ‘Opening of The Senate Watergate Committee (1973)’

“(17 May 1973) Scenes from the United States Senate hearing into the Watergate Affair. Senate Watergate Committee chairman, Sam Ervin makes a statement… From The Associated Press Without the Senate Watergate Committee, President Nixon doesn’t get impeached at least in that … Continue reading

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Bill Boggs TV: John Dean- Interview With Bill Boggs

“John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. In this position, he became deeply involved in events leading … Continue reading

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Politics & Prose: John Dean- The Nixon Defense

“What did the president know, and when did he know it? That was the iconic question of the Watergate scandal and Dean, who served as Nixon’s legal counsel, argues that it remains to be answered. Using his own transcripts of … Continue reading

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The Film Archives: David Frost- Oral History on Richard Nixon Interviews- Vietnam War To Watergate

Source:The Film Archives First of all, I believe that Richard Nixon already knew by 1968, or at the very latest in the early days of his presidency in 1969 that the Vietnam War was already lost. Just from his own … Continue reading

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Frost/Nixon Interviews: Full Interview About Watergate

I covered this last week, but the White House coverup of Watergate was about ending a story that the Nixon White House thought could explode in their faces. Which was an attempted burglary of Democratic National Headquarters. Even though the … Continue reading

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Frost/Nixon The Complete Interviews: Foreign Policy

The real genius of the Nixon Presidency was the foreign policy. President Nixon and his National Security Director, could simply see things happening twenty-years in advance. I don’t believe we’ve ever had two people that high up in the U.S. … Continue reading

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CSPAN: ‘The Dark Side of Henry Kissinger: The Dirty Secrets of The Nixon White House – Price of Power (1983)’

Source:CSPAN– Henry Kissinger was President Richard Nixon’s chief foreign affairs and national security advisor, from 1969-74. “At the height of Kissinger’s prominence, many commented on his wit. In February 1972, at the Washington Press Club annual congressional dinner, “Kissinger mocked … Continue reading

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TNT: Nixon & Kissinger (1995) Starring Beau Bridges & Ron Silver

Source:TNT Films– Ron Silver as Henry Kissinger. “Story of how Kissinger worked to try and end the Vietnam crisis while Nixon maneuvered to keep his political image strong until election time.” Source:TNT I saw this movie last night in preparation … Continue reading

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Henry Higgins: Who Was Richard Nixon

Source:Henry Higgins With all due respect to BBC, I don’t think you can explain who was Richard Nixon in under an hour. To explain someone as the narrator in this film said is one of if not the most fascinating … Continue reading

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