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Abbreviations
Abrams Papers
Abrams Papers, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, DC
More: http://www.fpri.org/articles/2013/05/...
The Great Captains in American History - Abrams - https://youtu.be/oHJvPPbqGfc
http://www.c-span.org/video/?184556-1...
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/abra...
http://www.historynet.com/the-abrams-...
http://www.history.army.mil
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency Declassified Documents
http://www.foia.cia.gov
Cong. Rec.
Congressional Record
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/Legislativ...
FAQH
Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
http://adst.org/oral-history/
http://www.loc.gov/collection/foreign...
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.afsa.org/1970s-nixon-goes-...
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation, declassified documents
https://vault.fbi.gov
FRUS
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969 - 1976
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
JFKL
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org
Kissinger Papers
Kissinger Papers Manuscript Division - Library of Congress - Washington, DC
http://news.yale.edu/2011/06/14/yale-...
http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/libr...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20010809/
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/do...
http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowsh...
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/18/boo...
http://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/...
Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/was...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/referen...
http://nixontapes.org/chron5.html
LBJ Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Moorer Diary
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer diary, declassified
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vie...
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/thmo...
http://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by...
https://research.archives.gov/id/1257586
Nixon Library - NWHT
Nixon Library - Nixon white House Tapes
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
President's Daily Diary
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
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Nixon Interview with David Frost - May 19,1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnmZp... - 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDZu... - 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGYm... - 7
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/20...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGSB...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frost-Nixon-T...
All of the segments were unfortunately not available free on line
John W. Dean to Nixon - March 21, 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZx7g...
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Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Richard Nixon - State of the Union Address - January 22nd, 1970
Video - https://youtu.be/5LpspwT0ZwA
http://millercenter.org/president/nix...
"Nixon has a genius" - Martin Luther King Letter to Earl Mazo
http://okra.stanford.edu/transcriptio...
"We are still dealing with governments" and "Those Chinese are out to whip me"
http://millercenter.org/events/2015/t...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialr...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Helms Interview with Stanley Kutler, July 14, 1988 - "Nixon never trusted anybody"
http://news.wisc.edu/23639
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/us/...
http://www.npr.org/2015/04/13/3993894...
http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituari...
by Stanley I. Kutler (no photo)It was me against the world" - Robert Finch Interview, in Nixon
http://onemanagainsttheworld.com/one-...
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/12/us/...
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)Nixon address accepting the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida August 8, 1968 - Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/richar...
http://www.c-span.org/video/?4022-2/1... - Video - C-Span
Richard Nixon Farewell Address - White House - August 9th, 1974 - Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/g...
https://youtu.be/32GaowQnGRw - Richard Nixon Foundation - White House - video
by 
Richard M. NixonHoover Testimony - March 26, 1947 - House Un-American Activities Committee
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp...
Live footage of Nixon's last press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMSb...
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https://youtu.be/MacmN1EtIPQ
2: "This is treason""In those years in limbo" - Watts oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Watts,%...
"Where Mr. Nixon and I called on President Suharto" - Green oral history
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Green,%...
"was found to be crucified" - Doris Kearns Goodwin
by
Doris Kearns GoodwinVideo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2-Je...
"Increasingly attracted" - Bui Diem with David Chanoff
by Bui Diem (no photo)"He was in Washington when Castro took over": Woods to Haldeman, Oct. 13, 1968, Nixon Library, Nixon Presidential Returned Materials Collection: White House Special Files
http://nixonlibrary.gov/virtuallibrar...
"between three and five million dollars": Wood to Nixon, "RE: Telephone call form Bob Hill - re Mexico," Sept. 29, 1968, Nixon Library, Nixon Presidential Returned Materials Collection: White House Special Files
http://nixonlibrary.gov/virtuallibrar...
"someone in Johnson's innermost circle" - Richard Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"I immediately decided"..."a cynical last-minute"
Ibid.
"It appears Mr. Nixon will be elected" - Director, NSA, to [classified], "Thieu's Views on Peace Talks and Bombing Halt," partially declassified Dec. 17, 2010, LBJ Library.
http://historyinpieces.com/research/d...
"Nixon was playing the problem" - Rostow to Johnson, 6:00 a.m., Oct. 29, 1968, LBJ Library.
https://italkyoubored.wordpress.com/2...
"He better keep Mrs. Chennault" - Oct. 31 1968
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialr...
Audio - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-2176...
"South Vietnam is not a truck" - Thieu quoted in conversation between President Johnson and Robert McNamara, Nov. 1, 1968
by David Goldman (no photo)"The Republican nominee"
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialr...
"It's clear as day!" - Notes of meeting, Nov. 2, 1968
by David Goldman (no photo)"a message from her boss" - Rostow teletype to President Johnson, Nov. 2, 1968
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
"This is treason" - Nov. 2, 1968
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialr...
"The deal was cooked" - Habib oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Habib,%...
"I do not believe" - Telephone conversation among President Johnson, Secretary of Defense Clifford, Secretary of State Rusk, and the president's special assistant (Rostow), Nov. 4, 1968, 12:27 p.m.
by David Goldman (no photo)Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkBd...
"These messages started"..."And it is a sordid story" - Nov. 8, 1969
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialr...
"We were tapped" - Nixon to Haldeman, June 28, 1972
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"he had sent two secret emissaries" - CIA Saigon station, "President Thieu's Comments on Peace Talks," Nov. 18, 1968
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
"The 'X' Files" - Memorandum for the record, W. W. Rostow, May 14, 1973
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
3: "He was surrounded by enemies"Inauguration Day - Huston oral history
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVzB3...
"I really need" - July 1, 1971
Audio - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"This country is going so far right you won't even recognize it" - Attorney General Mitchell overheard by Kandy Stroud
https://books.google.com/books?id=ajL...
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/197...
"Attorneys General seldom directed Mr. Hoover" - Nixon Testimony, U.S. v. Felt, Oct. 29, 1980
http://www.paperlessarchives.com/mark...
"I had a strong intuition about Henry Kissinger"
by
Richard M. Nixon"It was a bizarre way" - Rodman oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Rodman,...
"There was an absolute conviction" - Haldeman oral history
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)"the greatest military man I had ever met" - Alexander M. Haig Jr. Oral History Interview, November 30, 2007
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?200507-1...
"I had clearly crossed the line for the first time" - John W. Dean, keynote address, "Presidential Powers: An American Debate," April 25, 2006
http://www.lawandsecurity.org/portals...
"convinced that Nixon's drinking could cost him any chance of a return to public life" - John Ehrlichman
by John Ehrlichman (no photo)"house detective" - Ehrlichman, "Transcription of Tape-Recorded Interview," White House, Dec. 17, 1971
http://nixon.archives.gov/virtuallibr...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"From the first time he ran for office" - Ehrlichman interview recorded by CNN in 1988
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/coldwar/inte...
4: "He will let them know who is boss around here""to understand...these were horrible decisions" - Haldeman oral history
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)"Sedov said" - Kissinger, memorandum of conversation, Washington, Jan. 2, 1969
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Our lines of communication" - Nixon inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1969
Video - http://www.history.com/topics/us-pres...
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"in the second week of the administration" - Haig oral history, Nixon Libary, Nov. 30, 2007
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?200507-1...
"This will be a great symbol" - Vietnam, Minutes of National Security Council Meeting, Jan. 25, 1969
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"To preclude...military actions" - Haig to Kissinger, Washington, March 2, 1969, "Memorandum from Secretary Laird Enclosing Preliminary Draft of Potential Military Actions re Vietnam"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"What is the most effective way to bring the war to a conclusion?" - Minutes of National Security Council Meeting Jan. 25, 1969
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
by Edward C. Keefer (no photo)"Mr. Kissinger questioned" - Minutes of the 303/40 Committee Meeting, Feb. 12, 1969
Ibid.
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I believe it is absolutely urgent" - Memorandum from President Nixon to Kissinger, Washington, Feb. 1, 1969
Ibid.
"The question that arises" - Laird to Nixon, March 14, 1969
Ibid.
Video - http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam...
"lobbing a few shells into Saigon" - Kissinger to Nixon, March 10, 1969
Ibid.
"so secret...entire new world" - Feb. 25, 1969
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
In order to set the stage" - Kissinger to Nixon - "Consideration of B-52 Options Against COSVN Headquarters," Feb. 19, 1969
by Edward C. Keefer (no photo)"an extraordinary amount of detailed planning" - Oakley oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Oakley,...
"Must convince them" - Notes by President Nixon of a meeting, Paris, March 2, 1969
by Edward C. Keefer (no photo)"We are not going to double-cross you" - Telegram from the embassy in France to the Depart of State, Paris, March 2, 1969
Ibid.
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Hit them" - March 8, 1969, Kissinger Telephone Coversations
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"Our military effort" - Kissinger to Nixon, March 8, 1969, "SUBJECT: Reflections on De-escaltion"
by Edward C. Keefer (no photo)https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The President ordered" - Memorandum for the record, March 15, 1969, "SUBJECT: March 16 Rocket Attack on Saigon"
Ibid.
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
5: "The center cannot hold"Abrams was "seeking permission"
by Bernard C. Nalty (no photo)"the ultimate weapon" - Nixon deposition, recorded in San Clemente, CA, Jan. 15, 1976, Halperin v. Kissinger, U.S. District Court, Washington, DC.
http://openjurist.org/606/f2d/1192
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-NARA...
"Here he was in this room with J. Edgar Hoover" - Rodman oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Rodman,...
"destroy whoever did this" - Hoover memorandum of conversation with Kissinger, May 9, 1969
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%...
https://archive.org/stream/statemento...
"gossip and bullshitting" - Feb. 28. 1973
http://www.cnss.org/data/files/Survei...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
tapping was within the realm - 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
http://www.justice.gov/crt/omnibus-cr...
"But I didn't think it was being done by the White House" - Sullivan oral history
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)"an almost paranoid fear" - Kennedy oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Kennedy...
"You cannot square a personal friendship" - Lord oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533546...
"disreputable if not outright illegal" - Thomas R. Johnson
by Thomas Johnson (no photo)http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"Without the Vietnam War" - H. R. Haldeman
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)"This is the way civilizations begin to die" - Nixon statement on campus disorders, March 22, 1969, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
"The subject of U.S. casualties" - Wheeler cable to Abrams, April 3, 1969
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/doctrine...
by U.S. Government (no photo)"We need a plan" - National Security Council meeting, March 28, 1969
http://nixonlibrary.gov/forresearcher...
"We must convince the American public" - Kissinger to President Nixon, April 3, 1969, "SUBJECT: Vietnam Problem."
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"the only way to end the war quickly and the best way to conclude it honorably"
Ibid.
"Even without a reason" - Telephone conversation between President Nixon and Kissinger, April 5, 1969, 9:45 a.m., Kissinger Telephone Conversations
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
Another newly declassified NSA history
by Thomas Johnson (no photo)http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"The President said to find a way" - Telephone conversation between President Nixon and Kissinger (notes by Haig), April 15, 1969
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Honest John" - Minutes of NSC meeting, April 16, 1969
Ibid.
"That is a very tough one" - Telephone conversation between President Nixon and Kissinger, April 17, 1969
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3jY1...
"immediate military action against the North" - Haig Oral History Interview, Nov. 30, 2007
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?309875-1...
"We do not do a thing" - Telephone conversation between President Nixon and Kissinger April 17, 1969
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Nixon told me" - Haig Oral History Interview, November 30, 2007
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Nixon did not trust" - Rodman oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Rodman,...
"ambassadorships were being sold to the highest bidders" - Hart oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Hart,%2...
"Vincent De Roulet was no longer 'persona grata'" - Rogers oral history
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
"I think he had something" - Cheek oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
"contributed chunks of this money" - Gillespie oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
http://www.loc.gov/resource/mfdip.200...
"We had a career Foreign Service officer" - Hart oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Hart,%2...
"Anybody who wants to be an ambassador must at least give $250,000" - June 21, 1971
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Audio - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"We had no hobbies" - Butterfield testimony, House Judiciary Committee Impeachment heaaarings, July 2, 1974
http://watergate.info/judiciary/BKITO...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeQXo...
"This country could run itself domestically" - Nixon interview
by
Margaret MacMillan"He believed in nothing" - Farmer oral history
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)he "can't have a Domestic Program" - Moynihan quoted in March 11, 1969, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Regarding domestic policy, which Nixon dismissed as 'building outhouses in Peoria'" - Will quoted in "Up Front"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/boo...
http://prospect.org/article/president...
"If it's called racism, so be it" and "Uncle Toms" - Feb. 27 and April 2, 1970, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"that we're catering to the left" - Feb. 9, 1971
Ibid.
"He didn't know anything about the war on poverty" - Cheney oral history
http://millercenter.org/president/bus...
http://web1.millercenter.org/poh/tran...
"The Nixon administration came in" - Carlucci oral history
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Carlucc...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Carlucc...
"to provide upward mobility"..."OEO was the enemy"
Ibid.
"I want to end this war" - Nixon address on Vietnam, May 14, 1969
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
https://books.google.com/books?id=nsD...
"totally unintelligible to the ordinary guy" - May 14, 1969, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"Our fighting men" Nixon address on Vietnam, May 14, 1969
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
https://books.google.com/books?id=nsD...
"senseless and irresponsible" - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Cong. Rec., May 20, 1969
https://www.emkinstitute.org/resource...
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi...
"We are talking to an enemy" - Nixon meeting with Cabinet and NSC, May 15, 1969, Nixon Presidential Materials, White House Special Files, National Archives , Washington, DC
http://clinton4.nara.gov/media/pdf/Ni...
https://books.google.com/books?id=drl...
http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/fr...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?322950-1...
6: "Madman"Hoover himself began to draw up a blueprint - Hoover's plans are detailed in an FBI document "CIA Requests for Information Concerning Aliens" dated November 19, 1948
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default...
http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets...
Congress...had passed - Emergency Detention Act of 1950
http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Emerge...
http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Repeal...
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS...
Video - http://www.powershow.com/view1/c1bf9-...
"I think there is a much deeper conspiracy" - Nov. 14, 1969, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/marketi...
https://research.archives.gov/id/579113
"everything depended on the war in Vietnam" - Memorandum from Kissinger to President Nixon, June 13, 1969
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We have a difficult political problem" - Memorandum of conversation, June 8, 1969, Midway Island
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"a sagging of spirit"
Ibid.
"if not handled carefully"
Ibid.
"He feels it will probably mean collapse of South Vietnam" - June 19, 1969, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"discouraged because his plans" and "He wants to push for some escalation" - July 7, 1969, entry in Haldeman Diaries
Ibid.
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"until about October" - History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1969-70
by U.S. Government (no photo)http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/doctrine...
"Convey the impression that Nixon is somewhat 'crazy'" - Leonard Garment, Crazy Rhythm
by Leonard Garment (no photo)"We are going through a critical phase" - Nixon remarks, July 29, 1969, U.S. embassy, Bangkok
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We have been using every diplomatic and other device" - Memorandum of conversation, Nixon and Thieu, July 30, 1969, Saigon
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi...
"a complete and utter surprise" - Holdridge oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Holdrid...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Holdrid...
"Between Jakarta and Bangkok"
Ibid.
Yahya said he would convey the message - Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Agha Hilaly, met with Kissinger's NSC aide Harold H. Saunders after Nixon returned to Washington in August 1969.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"the card of the United States" - Xiong Xianghui published the first documented records of Mao's task force. Xiong Xianghui, "The Prelude to the Opening of Sino-American Relations."
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"in 25 years" - Private meeting between President Nixon and Ceauşescu, Aug 2-3, 1969, Bucharest
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"All this is possible" - Memorandum of conversation between the president and President Ceauşescu, Aug. 2-3, 1969
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"continue to fight in Vietnam"
Ibid.
Nixon convened the National Security Council - President Nixon's notes on a National Security Council meeting, Aug. 14, 1969, San Clemente, CA
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"may have a 'knock them off now' policy" - Minutes of meeting of the National Security Council, Aug. 14, 1969, San Clemente, CA
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Davydov asked point blank" - William L. Stearman, memorandum of conversation, Aug. 18, 1969, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: China: US Reaction to Soviet Destruction of CPR Nuclear Capability"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"the consequences for the US would be incalculable" - Memorandum for the record of the Washington Special Actions Group meeting, Sept. 4, 1969, San Clemente, CA
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The longer the war goes on" - Kissinger to President Nixon, Aug. 30, 1969, "SUBJECT: Response from Ho Chi Minh"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We tried every operational approach in the book" - Richard Helms, A Look over My Shoulder
by
Richard HelmsVideo - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c3875270...
"I was ready to use whatever military pressure was necessary...to bear on Hanoi" - Nixon
by
Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"The pressure of public opinion" - Kissinger to President Nixon, Sept. 10, 1969, Washinton, DC, "SUBJECT: Our Present Course on Vietnam"
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"sharp military blows" - Kissinger to President Nixon, Oct. 2, 1969, Washington, DB, "SUBJECT: Contingency Military Operations Against North Vietnam"
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"If USSR thinks President is a madman" - Vietnam, Contingency Planning, Sept. 12, 1969, Kissinger Papers
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/eb...
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/18/boo...
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/do...
"[Nixon held] one of those mystic sessions" - Oct. 3, 1969, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"Could you exercise the DEFCON?" - Transcript of telephone conversation between Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Laird, Oct. 6, 1969 (declassified Oct. 14, 2011), Washington, DC, "The Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test"
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"an integrated plan" - Memo to General Wheeler, Oct. 9, 1969, Records of the Chairman of the JCS, Earle Wheeler Papers.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"the 'madman theory'" - Laird interview with William Burr, June 18 and Sept. 6, 2001, National Security Archive, George Washington University
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED4...
"Tonight - to you, the great silent majority" - Nixon address to the nation on the war in Vietnam, Nov. 3, 1969.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYAg...
"I am on the inside, the enemy" - Watts oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Watts,%...
7: "Don't strike a king unless you intend to kill him""a fifth-rate agricultural power" - Kissinger, memorandum of conversation, "SUBJECT: Vietnam," Aug. 4, 1969, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"If we fail we have had it" and "'Don't strike a king'" - Adm. T. H. Moorer, memorandum for the record, Oct. 11, 1969, Washington DC, "SUBJECT: JCS Meeting with the President"
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"We have the following problem"..."What if it comes out?" - Transcript of telephone conversation between President Nixon and Kissinger, Jan. 26, 1970, 3:30 p.m., Washington, DC, Kissinger Papers
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/marketi...
"rotting cadavers" - Admiral Thomas Moorer, JCS 2610 message to Admiral John McCain, Feb. 18, 1970, Abrams Papers
by Center of Military History United States (no photo)Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbD2U...
"the bombing was basically ineffectual" - Rushing oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Rushing...
"We have won the war"..."You talk peace, but you make war" - Memorandum of conversation, Feb. 21, 1970, 4:10 p.m., Paris
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"I want to run through the Laos situation"..."I don't want any questions left" - Minutes of the National Security Council Meeting, Feb. 27, 1970, Washington, DC
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"I'll have to fuzz their capacity" - Transcript of telephone conversation between President Nixon and Kissinger, Feb. 27, 1970, Washington, DC, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?197600-1...
"There was a phrase in that paper" - Lord oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533546...
"I knew it wasn't true" - Transcript of telephone conversation between Kissinger and Haldeman, March 9, 1970, Washington, DC, Kissinger Telephone Conversation
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"a lot of very young and very able Air Force officers" - Holdridge oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Holdrid...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Holdrid...
8: "A pitiful, helpless giant""I don't think he ever slept" - Haig Oral History Interview, Nov. 30, 2007
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"there wasn't much we could do militarily," "went though the roof," and a "hard option" - From minutes of Washington Special Actions Group meeting, March 19, 1970
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"Mr. Helms said" - Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group meeting, March 23, 1970
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"totally unprepared for combat"
by U.S. Government (no photo)"President Nixon asked me to draft"..."to lead his country out of its mess" - Marshall Green oral history
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http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Green,%...
"I want Helms to develop" - Kissinger to President Nixon, March 19, 1970, Washington, DC
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http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/fr...
"military effort against the Viet Cong in Cambodia" - Helms to Kissinger, March 23, 1970, "SUBJECT: Proposals to Sustain the Present Regime in Cambodia"
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"Here was another" - Memorandum of conversation, April 18, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Dr. Kissinnger's Conversation with CIA Officer Recently in Phnom Penh"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
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"Poor K" - March 24, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"Apologizing for my vulgarity" - Helms Memorandum for the record, March 25, 1970
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"The Thai battalion" - Telephone conversation between Nixon and Kissinger, March 26, 1970
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http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
"fight such a limitation to the death" - Haig to Kissinger, April 1, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Meeting with Secretary of Defense Laird and the President, 3/31/70"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
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"Multiple unsolvable problems bearing in" - April 15, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"Set up political attack...Have to declare war" - April 9, 1970
Ibid.
"an all-out hatchet job" - March 10, 1970
Ibid.
Audio - http://www.history.com/speeches/nixon...
"We have no intention"..."reap the whirlwind" - Memorandum of conversation, Kissinger and LeDuc Tho, Paris, April 4, 1970
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"the need for speed" - McCain quoted in History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1969-70
by U.S. Government (no photo)"discussed possible cross-border attacks into Cambodia"
Ibid.
"I think we need a bold move in Cambodia" - President Nixon to Kissinger, April 22, 1970, Washington, DC
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"pussyfooting" - Henry Kissinger, White House Years
by
Henry Kissinger"a political storm" - Memorandum for Roger Morris, Winston Lord, and Anthony Lake of the National Security Council staff to Kissinger, April 22, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Cambodia"
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"P is moving too rashly" - April 24, 1970
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"There was no discussion" - Memorandum of meeting among the president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, attorney general, April 28, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Cambodia/South Vietnam"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
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"This is not an invasion of Cambodia" - Nixon Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia, April 30, 1970, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqo7Y...
"As Nixon concluded his maudlin remarks" - Green oral history
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9: "An unmitigated disaster""I made a very uncharacteristic" - Nixon
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"P was really beat" - May 1, 1970 entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"They're the greatest"
by
Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"He's very disturbed" - May 4 and 6, 1970, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"We have to stand hard as a rock" - Telephone conversation between Nixon and Kissinger, May 4, 1970, Kissinger Papers
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05...#
"K. wants to just let the students go for a couple of weeks, then move in and clobber them" - May 6, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"The Cambodian incursion was an unmitigated disaster" - Thomas R. Johnson
by Thomas Johnson (no photo)http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"By the time I had stopped laughing" - Stearman oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Stearma...
"The press got hold"..."the advancing allies" - Johnson
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"His instinct for the political jugular" - Nixon
by
Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"attack and counterattack" - Exit interview with Charles W. Colson, Jan. 12, 1973
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"he'll do anything" - May 16, 1972, NWHT, Oval Office
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"agitated and uneasy" - Nixon
by
Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"Four-thirty in the morning" Krogh Oral History Interview, Sept. 5, 2007, Nixon Library
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?296322-1...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c583927/...
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Lynn Schatzkin, Ronnie Kemper, and Joan Pelletier - Quoted in John Morthland "Nixon in Public," Rolling Stone, June 11, 1970
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Rolling Stone Magazine"flushed, drawn, exhausted" - Krogh Oral History Interview, Sept. 5, 2007, Nixon Library
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"The weirdest day so far" and "the unwinding process is not succeeding" - May 9 and May 15, 1970, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"scooping up secret data" - Sept. 30, 1969
Ibid.
"the President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV" - James St. Clair, oral arguments before U.S. District Court judge John Sirica, May 1, 1974, U.S. v. Nixon
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGGMA...
"Marcos and his wife" - Symington Subcommittee, vol. 1, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files
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"democracy doesn't work" - "Memorandum from the American Embassy in Thailand to the Department of State," Nov. 17, 1971, Bangkok, see also "SUBJECT: Covert Support of the Thai Government Party in the Thai National Parliamentary Elections," Feb 7, 1969. "The Thai let us" - Montgomery oral history. Ambassador Unger's report on the Thai coup and Kissinger's analysis of the coup for Nixon
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http://www.adst.org/Readers/Thailand.pdf
"They had been content" - James Marvin Montgomery oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Montgom...
"aware of our attacks" - Nixon meeting with Souvanna Phouma, prime minister of Lao, and Kissinger, Oct. 7, 1969, "SUBJECT: The Public Position on US Activities in Laos"
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"The President chewed our butts" - United States Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, undated but written in 1975; see also "Meeting with J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Helms, Lt. Gen. Bennett, and Adm. Gayler", June 5, 1970, Haldeman White House Files
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/si...
"revolutionary terrorism"..."a plan which will enable" - Presidential talking paper: Meeting with J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Helms, Lt. Gen. Bennett, and Adm. Gayler, June 5, 1970, Haldeman White House Files, Nixon Library.
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/si...
"I'm not going to accept" - Sullivan deposition, Nov. 1, 1975, United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activity
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"in view of the crisis of terrorism" - Nixon
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Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"Haldeman basically gave him the portfolio" - Huston oral history, Nixon Library
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"we would continue our interdiction"..."it was worth taking risks" - Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group meeting, June 15, 1970, 3:15 p.m., Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Cambodia," "WSAG Minutes, Originals, 1970 - 1971, Cambodia 6/15/70"
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
http://www.history-lab.org/documents/...
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"I just hope they got it"
Ibid.
"There were a great number of people" - "Remarks by the President at WSAG Meeting," minutes of Washington Special Actions Group, Washington, June 19, 1970, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
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"We were instructed to receive him and take him to visit Lon Nol" - Antippas oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Antippa...
"Phnom Penh did not need an Ambassador" - Swank oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Swank,%...
"The communists have overrun half of Cambodia" - Special National Intelligence Estimate, Aug. 6, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: The Outlook for Cambodia." CIA.
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"Listen, Henry, Cambodia won the war" - Nixon to Kissinger, Oct. 7, 1970, Kissinger Telephone Conversation
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
10: "Only we have the power""Plan is for P" - Oct. 14, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"seeking to trap"..."We should bear in mind" - Memorandum of conversation, Oct. 2, 1970, Madrid
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"The differences between the United States" - Background press briefing by President Nixon, Oct. 12, 1970
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"unless the United States was willing" - Memorandum of conversation, Oct. 22, 1970, 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Oval Office.
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"P. obviously enjoyed the confrontation" - Oct. 22, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"a moment of unusual uncertainty" - Memorandum from Kissinger to President Nixon, Oct. 19, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Your Meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, Oct. 22, 1970
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/de...
"Put the past behind" - Notes prepared by President Nixon for Oct. 22, 1970, meeting with Gromyko, undated, Washington, DC, President's Personal Files, Nixon Presidential Materials, Nixon Library
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"The US" - Nixon to Kissinger, Oct. 12, 1970, 6:10 p.m., Washington, DC, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
https://research.archives.gov/id/579113
http://cisupa.proquest.com/ksc_assets...
"Anyone who had lived in Chile" - Phillips testimony, United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, July 13, 1975
http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/jfk...
Contact the military - The Pinochet File
by Peter Kornbluh (no photo)http://history.state.gov/historicaldo...
A Viaux Coup and Overthrown
Ibid.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
https://history.state.gov/milestones/...
"come up with nothing" - Sept. 15, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"We wanted some confrontation" - Oct. 29, 1970
Ibid.
"I could not resist showing them how little respect I had for their mindless ranting" - Nixon
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Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"a terrifiying flying wedge of cops" - Oct. 29, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
Larger government studies estimated - Lee N. Robins, "Lessons from the Vietnam Heroin Experience," Harvard Mental Health Letter, Dec. 1994
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Alfred W. McCoy"a significant political faliure"..."absolutely ruthless" - Nixon
by
Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"amazing array of trivia" and "handling super fat cats and special assignments" - Nov. 10 and 19, 1970, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"John Dean asked me if I would set up a safe house"...He was also "quite dangerous" - Miller oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Miller,...
"He started vying for favor on Nixon's dark side" - Tim Weiner, "Charles Colson, Nixon's Political Enforcer, Dies at 80," New York Times, April 23, 2012
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage...
Video - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05...
11: "We're not going to lose this war""break the back of the enemy" - CJCS Memo M-218-70, Dec. 23, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Conference with President Nixon," in Moorer Diary, July 1970 - July 1974, Records of the Chairman
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"we've discovered that the enemy has our plan and is starting to mass their troops to counteract" - Jan. 26, 1971, entry in Haldeman Diaries.
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"we had received intercepts yesterday" - Memorandum for the president's file by the president's deputy assistant for national security affairs Haig, Jan. 27, 1971, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Meeting of the President, Secretary of State Rogers, Secretary of Defense Laird, Director of CIA Helms, Chairman of JCS Moorer, Henry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig in the Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
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"there could be no perception of defeat" - History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1971-73
by U.S. Government (no photo)"He did not agree with the connotation that the Laos operation was merely a raid" - Memorandum for the president's file by Haig, Jan. 27, 1971, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Meeting of the President, Secretary of State Rogers, Secretary of Defense Laird, Director of CIA Helms, Chairman of JCS Moorer, HEnry A. Kissinger and Alexander M. Haig in the Oval Office"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The pressure back here" - History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1971 - 73
by U.S. Government (no photo)"prodded remorselessly by Nixon and Kissinger" - Alexander M. Haig
by Alexander M. Haig Jr. (no photo)http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/1...
"The best legacy" - Nixon to Kissinger, Jan. 24, 1971, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
https://research.archives.gov/id/579113
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"our army's greatest concentration of combined-arms forces" - History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1971 - 73
by U.S. Government (no photo)"Tchepone, a tiny town" - Maj. Gen Nguyen Duy Hinh
by Nguyen Duy Hinh (no photo)http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/...
"We're not going to lose it" - Feb. 18, 1971
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
"We can win in '72" - Feb. 18, 1971
Ibid.
"This is the moment of truth" - History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1971 - 73
by U.S. Government (no photo)The President's decision to support Lam Son 719 - Kissinger to Bunker, March 1, 1971, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
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"the surface of the moon" - Howland oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
"Why is it that Hanoi" - Minutes of a meeting of the 40 Committee, March 31, 1971, San Clemente, CA
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
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"They've now fought for ten years against us" - March 18, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"It would be hard to exaggerate" - Back-channel message from Kissinger to Ambassador Bunker, March 18, 1971, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"lost their stomach for Laos" - History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam, 1971 - 73
by U.S. Government (no photo)"What has dramatically demoralized" - New York Times, March 28, 1971
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/43...
"a bloody field exercise" - Hinh, Lam Son 719
by Nguyen Duy Hinh (no photo)http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/...
"a concrete demonstration" - Military History Institute of Vietnam
by Merle L. Pribbenow (no photo)"Tonight I can report" - President Nixon, "Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia," April, 7, 1971, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYI9...
"The war has eroded in America's confidence" - April 21, 1971, telephone tape
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"want to destroy you and they want us to lose in Vietnam" - April 23, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"All of this is a bunch of shit" - April 23, 1971, Oval Office
Ibid.
"All that matters" - May 10, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"We'll bomb the goddamn North like it's never been bombed" - April 6, 1971, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Audio - http://www.howtoresolveds.com/tube/m2...
"They relived" - Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, April 22, 1971, Cong. Rec.
https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~eb...
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacif...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucY7J...
"You'll find Kerry running for political office" - April 23, 1971, White House
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4534613/ns/...
"Any military commander who is honest with himself" - McNamara interview in The Fog of War, directed by Errol Morris (2003)
http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow.html
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?r...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgA98...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGn-S...
12: "It's a conspiracy""This goddamn New York Times exposé" - June 13, 1971, telephone tape
Audio - http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"It just shows massive mismanagement" - June 13, 1971, Oval Office
http://millercenter.org/presidentialc... - with audio
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
Audio - http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"Goddamn it" - June 15, 1971 - Oval Office
http://millercenter.org/presidentialc... - with audio
"You can blackmail Johnson on this stuff" - June 17, 1971, Oval Office
http://millercenter.org/presidentialc... - with audio
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive...
"Do you remember Huston's plan? Implement it" - June 17, 1971, Oval Office
http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspo...
http://home.comcast.net/~deacon53/US2...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialc... - with audio
"You need a commander...It could be Colson" - July 1, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/1...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive...
http://millercenter.org/presidentialc... - with audio
"We're up against an enemy"..."Is that clear?" - July 1, 1971, Nixon to Haldeman, Oval Office
Ibid.
"I just want to make that big play" - June 29, 1971, Oval Office
by
Douglas G. Brinkley"fears of what the President might do" - Memorandum for the president's file, July 1, 1971, "China Trips, July 1971," Briefing Notebook, Kissinger Papers
http://www.history-lab.org/documents/...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We're not going to turn the country over" - July 1, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"You can say 'I cannot control him'" - April 23, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
by
Douglas G. Brinkley"I understand you are going to Beijing" - Memorandum of conversation, Oct. 25, 1970, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Meeting Between the President and Pakistan President Yahya"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The Chinese Government reaffirms its willingness" - Memorandum of conversation, May 7, 1971, Palm Spri8ngs, CA, Participants: Joseph S. Farland, U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, henry A. Kissinger, assistant to the president for national security affairs
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"President Nixon was ambivalent" - Lord oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
"this was about as mysterious as you can get" - Farland oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Farland...
"Do you know what I'm going to talk about"
Ibid.
"We were stepping into the infinite" - Holdridge oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Holdrid...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Holdrid...
"As the sun came up" - Lord oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
"Kissinger and I and the others walked around"
Ibid.
"as forthcoming as we could have hoped" - Kissinger to President Nixon, July 14, 1971, San Clemente, CA., "SUBJECT: My Talks with Chou En-lai"
http://shout.smithsonianquests.org/fi...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"repeatedly stressed - in an almost plaintive tone" - Kissinger to President Nixon, July 14, 1971, San Clemente, CA., "SUBJECT: My Talks with Chou En-lai"
Ibid.
"Krogh and his guys" - July 20, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.historycommons.org/context...
Audio - http://nixontapeaudio.org/chron1/rmn_...
Audio - http://nixontapeaudio.org/chron1/rmn_...
"I listened intently" - Egil Krogh, "The Break-in That History Forgot" New York Times, June 30, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/opi...
"Where does Krogh stand now?" - Sept. 8, 1971, Oval Office
http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspo...
http://www.historycommons.org/context...
http://nixontapes.org/rkp.html - with audio
"permanent tails" - Sept. 8, 1971, Oval Office
Ibid.
"On the IRS" - Sept. 8, 1971, Old Executive Office Building
http://nixontapes.org/emk.html
"We had one little operation"..."It may pay off" - Sept. 8, 1971, Oval Office
http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspo...
http://www.historycommons.org/context...
http://nixontapes.org/chron2.html - with audio
13: "I can see the whole thing unravel""Our goal is clear" - Conversation among President Nixon, Ambassador Bunker, and Kissinger, June 16, 1971, Oval Office
http://nixontapes.org/pdd/1971-06-16_...
http://nixontapes.org/chron1.html
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavB1...
"There are no fair elections - Conversation among President Nixon, Ambassador Bunker, and Kissinger, June 16, 1971, Oval Office
Ibid.
"re-elect Nguyen Van Thieu" - CIA memorandum for the 40 Committee, Feb. 3, 1971, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Covert Actions in Support of U.S. Objective in South Vietnam's 1971 Elections"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Turn on him? Never, never" - Aug. 19, 1971, Washington, DC, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
"Unless there is a real contest" - Back-channel message from Ambassador Bunker in Saigon to Kissinger, Aug. 20, 1971
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"For the hundredth [sic] and twentieth time" - Kissinger, memorandum of conversation, Sept. 13, 1971, Paris
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The heart of the problem" - Kissinger to Nixon, Sept. 18, 1971, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Vietnam"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"A swift collapse" - Kissinger to Nixon, Sept. 18, 1971, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Vietnam"
Ibid.
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txq3k...
"I think we have to consider withdrawing the son-of-a-bitch" - Sept. 14, 1971, Kissinger Telephone Conversation
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Having been in the military"..."It was a grim picture" - Lange oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lange,%...
"We have to keep in mind"..."not to overthrow Thieu" - President Nixon's news conference, Sept. 16, 1971
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
"He started the damn thing!" - April 7, 1971, Oval Office
http://nixontapes.org/hak.html
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Audio - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"everything that flies"..."And with a victory" - Sept. 17, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The behavior of the U.S." - NSC meeting on Vietnam, Sept. 20, 1971, Kissinger Papers
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
We are launched on a course - Memorandum of conference with the president, Aug. 9, 1963, National Security file, JFKL
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"We must bear a good deal of responsibility for it" - Nov. 4, 1963, JFK Tapes, JFKL
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...
http://americanradioworks.publicradio...
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ke...
"the Kennedy Administration was deeply implicated" - Neil Sheehan, "'Vietnam Hindsight' on the Kennedy Years, New York Times, Dec. 22, 1971
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract...
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisbe...
"We have those tapes" - Oct. 8, 1971, White House
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"We've got to avoid the situation" - Oct. 25, 1971, White House
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/us/...
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/17...
"We will bomb the bejeezus"..."Oh, horrible, horrible, horrible" - Nov. 20, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
14: "It is illegal, but...""These people are savages" - Dec. 15, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"a special feeling" - Kissinger note attached to memorandum of conversation with ambassador to India Kenneth Keating and NSC aid Harold Saunders, June 21, 1971, National Security Council Files, Nixon Library
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
"The Pakistani army was just murdering people" - Veliotes oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Veliote...
"Don't squeeze Yahya" - Nixon's handwritten note on Kissinger's memo, April 28, 1971, "SUBJECT: Policy Options Toward Pakistan"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"If they're going to choose to go with the Russians" Aug. 9, 1971, Oval Office
http://nixontapes.org/india-pakistan....
https://archive.org/stream/Superpower...
"She is a bitch" - Nov. 5, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/nix...
"We will do everything we can" - Nov. 15, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Yahya is beginning to feel cornered" - Backchannel message from Ambassador Farland to Kissinger, Nov. 19971, Islamabad
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Is Yahya saying it's war?" - Nov. 22, 1971, Oval Office
http://nixontapes.org/india-pakistan....
http://archive.org/stream/SuperpowerR...
Video - http://millercenter.org/events/2015/t...
"didn't have any confirmation" - Nov. 22, 1971, Entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
Strictest Presidential Instructions to Tilt Toward Pakistan - Back-channel message from Kissinger to Ambassador Farland, Nov. 24, 1971, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"To the extent that we can tilt it toward Pakistan" - Nov. 24, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Pakistan thing makes your heart sick" - The president was in Key Biscayne, Florida; Kissinger in Washington, DC, Dec. 3, 1971, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://research.archives.gov/id/579113
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
"We have had an urgent appeal" - Dec. 4, 1971, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
Nixon authorized the arms transfers - Dec. 6, 1971, Oval Office
http://nixontapes.org/india-pakistan....
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The way we would do that is to tell the King" - Dec. 9, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I was too easy on the goddamn woman" - Dec. 6, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"cold-bloodedly make the decision" - Dec. 8, 1971, Old Executive Office Building
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I tell you, a movement of even some Chinese" - Telephone conversation between Nixon and Kissinger, Dec. 8, 1971, White House
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"What do we do if the Soviets move" - Dec. 12, 1971, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Savages" - Dec. 15, 1971, Oval Office
http://history.state.gov/historicaldo...
http://history.state.gov/historicaldo...
"only one place in the whole federal government"..."a federal offense of the highest order" - Dec. 21, 1971, Oval Office
http://nixontapes.org/welander.html
Audio - http://nixontapeaudio.org/welander/63...
Audio - http://nixontapeaudio.org/welander/63...
Audio - http://nixontapes.org/welander/639-03...
"the house detective" - Memorandum for the record by David R. Young, "SUBJECT: Transcription of Tape Recorded Interview" of Admiral Welander by Ehrlichman and Young, Dec. 22, 1971, Nixon Library
http://nixontapes.org/welander.html
"Your alter ego"..."Almost anything you name" - Young "SUBJECT: Transcription of Tape Recorded Interview"
Ibid.
"What we're doing here is, in effect, excusing a crime"..."They had to" - Dec. 22, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...
"That's the question".."Everyone else should go to jail!" Dec. 23, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...
http://nixonlibrary.gov/forresearcher...
"Got any ideas?"..."That would do it" - Dec. 24, 1971, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The main thing is to keep it under as close control as we can" - Telephone conversation between Nixon and Mitchell, Dec. 24, 1971, Old Executive Office Building
http://nixontapes.org/india-pakistan....
warrantless wiretap on Radford - Memorandum for the president from David R. Young, undated, "SUBJECT: Record of Investigation into Disclosure of Classified Information in Jack Anderson Articles," Nixon Library
http://nixontapes.org/welander.html
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"I don't care if Moorer is guilty" - Dec. 24, 1971, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"They can spy on him and spy on me and betray us" - Ehrlichman, Witness to Power
by John Ehrlichman (no photo)"The worst thing about it"..."But it's essential" - Dec. 23, 1971, Oval Office
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2007/03/r...
"it might partially explain their origin" - Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
by
Henry Kissinger
15: "Night and Fog""immense opportunities and, of course, equally great dangers" - Nixon
by
Richard M. NixonVideo - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvl8...
"it isn't about China" - Feb. 2, 1972, Cabinet Room
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Crack 'em, crack 'em, crack 'em" - Feb. 2, 1972, Cabinet Room
Ibid.
"Let's not have any illusions"..."they're suckers" - May 4, 1972, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"My order is to drop the Goddamn thing, you son of a bitch!" - April 19, 1971, telephone tape
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://nixon.archives.gov/forresearch...
https://sites.google.com/site/waterga...
"Operation Sandwedge" - The Operation Sandwedge plan is reproduced in the Final Report of the Seneate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
https://www.maryferrell.org/archive/d...
http://archive.org/stream/presidentia...
http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/op...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NTFv...
"From the campaign funds I need $800,000" - Strachan talking memo for Haldeman, Oct. 28, 1971, House Judiciary Committee, better known as the Impeachment hearings, Washington, DC, 1975
http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspo...
http://watergate.info/judiciary/APPIV...
"wheeler-dealers" - Caulfield to Dean, Feb 1, 1971, "SUBJECT: Hughes Retainer to Larry O'Brien," Senate Watergate Committee
https://www.maryferrell.org/archive/d...
"Donald Nixon's son"..."a huge flap in Washington" - Oakley oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Oakley,...
"to move hard on Larry O'Brien" - March 4, 1970, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"making sensitive political inquiries at the IRS" To: H. R. Haldeman, From: Tom Charles Huston, July 16, 1970, Haldeman Papers, Nixon Library
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"As you probably remember there was a Hughes/Don Nixon loan controversy years ago" - EYES ONLY: Higby to Dean, Aug. 10, 1970, Richard M. Nixon and Bruce Oudes, eds., From: The President: Richard Nixon's Secret Files
by
Richard M. Nixon"Concerning Howard Hughes" - Chapin to Colson, Dec. 12, 1970
Ibid.
"The Secretary of Commerce came down" - White oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/White,%...
"This Watergate thing kept coming back" - Magruder oral history, Nixon
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)"If this obsession...seems irrational" - John W. Dean, The Nixon Defense
by
John W. Dean"1972, as you know, was a very big year" - Nixon interview on Meet the Press, broadcast April 10, 1988, NBC
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/us/...
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32105890/ns...
16: "From one extreme to another""It had a tremendous impact" - Lord oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
"the intangibles of your China visit" - Kissinger to Nixon, Feb. 19, 1972, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: MAO, Chou and the Chinese Litmus Test"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We had no idea when they'd be back" - Feb. 21, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"I have read the Chairman's poems" - Memorandum of conversation, Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Prime Minister Zhou En-lai, President Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, Winston Lord, National Security Council staff, Feb. 21, 1972, Beijing
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"a different kind of communique" - Lord oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
"The conventional way" - Memorandum of conversation, Nixon to Zhou, Feb. 21, 1972, Beijing
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Why not give this up?" - Memorandum of conversation, President Nixon and Prime Minister Zhou, Beijing
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"the Taiwan question is the crucial question" - Memorandum of conversation, President Nixon and Prime Minister Zhou, Feb. 24, 1972, Beijing
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"This would almost certainly be seized upon" - Ambassador Marshall Green oral history, Evolution of US-China Policy 1956-1973: Memoirs of an Insider
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
"all hell had broken loose" - Ambassador Marshall Green oral history, Evolution of US-China Policy 1956-1973: Memoirs of an Insider
Ibid.
"this communiqué was a disaster" - Lord oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
"Rogers arrived at the suite" - Feb. 27, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"The symbolism escaped no one" - Green oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Green,%...
"Zhou En-lai handled the matter very skillfully" - Lord oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lord,%2...
"had very little to do with substance" - March 21, 1972, Oval office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
by
Douglas G. Brinkley"The network coverage"..."Shanghai at night" - Feb. 22 and 27, 1972, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?7883-1/c...
"If the war in Vietnam" - Memorandum of conversation, President Nixon and Prime Minister Zhou, Feb. 28, 1972, Shanghai
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"to negotiate an end to the war" - Military History Institute of Vietnam, Victory in Vietnam
by Military History Institute of Vietnam (no photo)"We'll bomb the hell out of the bastards" - March 14, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
17: "This is the supreme test""It looks as if they are attacking in Vietnam" - March 30, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I don't know any more if I'm in northern South Vietnam or southern North Vietnam" - Quoted in Sydney H. Schanberg, "'It's Everyone for Himself' as Troops Rampage in Hue," New York Times, May 4, 1972
http://www.beyondthekillingfields.com...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract...
"We lose if the ARVN collapses" - April 3, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"For the President, battlefield success became paramount" - Brown oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Brown,%...
"There will be no consideration of restraints" April 4, 1972 entry in Moorer Diary
https://research.archives.gov/id/1257586
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The P's massing a huge attack force" - April 4, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"God Almighty, there must be something" - April 4, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
Audio - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"An enormously potent ordeal" - April 20, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I cannot impress upon you" - Moorer to Admiral McCain and General Abrams, April 8, 1972, Oval office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.airforcemag.com/SiteCollec...
"The P called him and really laid it to him" - April 6, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"break the North Vietnamese" - April 10, 1972, Entry in Haldeman Diaries
Ibid.
"When I showed the President Abrams' message" - April 15, 1972, entry in Moorer Diary
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Any sign of weakness on our part" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"I have to leave this office" - April 17, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
by
Douglas G. Brinkley"I'll destroy the goddamn country" - April 19, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Brezhnev is simple, direct, blunt and brutal" - April 20, 1972
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I put this brutally" - April 20, 1972, Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"If they don't give anything" - April 20, 1972, Oval Office
Ibid.
"All that is bullshit" - Transcript of telephone conversation between President Nixon and Haig, April 21, 1972
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"It was a tough speech" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"There are to be no excuses and there is no appeal" - Kissinger to Laird, April 28, 1972
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"People didn't want to hear about it" - Brown oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Brown,%...
"I intend to cancel the Summit" - Nixon to Kissinger, April 30, 1972, from Connolly ranch in Texas
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"As the pressure has mounted" - Kissinger to Nixon, "SUBJECT: General Abrams' Assessment of the situation in Vietnam," May 1, 1972
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The P kept telling him" - May 1, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"We will lose the country if we lose the war" May 4, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
Ibid.
"Hoover experienced loneliness" - Mark Felt and John O'Connor, A G-Man's Life
by
Mark Felt"He died at the right time" - June 2, 1972, White House
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02...
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/...
"Pat, I am going to appoint you" - L. Patrick Gray III with Ed Gray, In Nixon's Web: A year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
by L. Patrick Gray (no photo)"Never never figure that anyone's your friend" - May 4, 1972, White House
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02...
"We were now faced with three alternatives"...The more the P thought about it" - May 4, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"Admiral, what I am going to say to you now is in total confidence" - May 4, 1972, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The P very strongly put the thing" - May 4, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"We've had a damned good foreign policy" - May 5, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I still think we ought to take the dikes out now" - April 25, 1972, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
https://www.liberationnews.org/the-nu...
"The best way to assure that we could win was to pick our opponent" - April 29, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"The real question is whether the Americans give a damn anymore" - Memorandum for the president's files, May 8, 1972, "SUBJECT: National Security Council Meeting"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We now have a clear, hard choice" - President's Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia, May 8, 1972, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/fr...
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQa-...
"I have determined that we should go for broke" - Memorandum from Nixon to Kissinger, May 9, 1972, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"the biggest dogfight since World War Two" - Washington Special Actions Group meeting, May 10, 1972, Washington, DC, "SUBJECT: Vietnam"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The record of World War II" - Helms to Kissinger, Aug. 22, 1972, "An Assessment of the US Bombing and Mining Campaign in North Vietnam"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I want you to convey directly" - Nixon to Kissinger and Haig, May 19, 1972, Washington, DC, HAK/President Memos, Top Secret/Eyes Only, NSC Files, Nixon Library
http://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/Ne...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/limits...
18: "Palace intrigue""guide the course of history" - Churchill quoted in Raymond A. Callahan, Churchill: Retreat from Empire
by Raymond Callahan (no photo)"The problem with the relationship" - Toon oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Toon,%2...
"Pretty scary" - May 11, 1969, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"I read last night the whole SALT thing...There's an awful lot still left to be worked out" - May 19, 1972, Oval Office
http://history.state.gov/historicaldo...
http://history.state.gov/historicaldo...
"We have a few snags" - May 19,1972, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"indispensable" - Conversation among President Nixon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense Laird, and others, Aug. 10, 1971, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"there would be no limitation on MIRVs" - Memorandum, July 31, 1970, Washington, DC, "Detailed Statement of the Provisions of U.S. SALT Position"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Never before have nations limited the weapons on which their survival depends" - Kissinger to Nixon, Tuesday, May 23, 1972, "SUBJECT: Your Moscow Discussions"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The fact that the two great adversaries could sit down" - Garthoff oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Garthof...
"P was whisked off" - May 22, 1972 - entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"The war which the United States"..."a confidential talk" - Memorandum of conversation, Brezhnev and Nixon, May 22, 1972, Moscow
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We are great powers" - Box 75, President's Speech File, "May 22-29, 1972, Russia," President's Personal Files, White House Special Files, Nixon Library
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/a...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"We are both civilized men" - Memorandum of conversation, Brezhnev and Nixon, transcribed from Kissinger's notes
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"That the President of the United States" - Gerald C. Smith, Doubletalk: The Story of the First Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
by Gerard C. Smith (no photo)"the single most emotional meeting" - June 2, 1972 Oval Office
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
by
Douglas G. Brinkley"Why don't we go see it right now?" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"all of a sudden the P and Brezhnev" - May 24, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"Followed by Nixon's own car" - Kissinger, White House Years
by
Henry Kissinger"We certainly did not choose," "We want to sign important documents," and "Our people want peace" - Memorandum of conversation, May 24, 1972, "SUBJECT: Vietnam," Moscow
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"after the motorcade" - Kissinger, White House Years
by
Henry Kissinger"The real problem" - Back-channel message from Haig to Kissinger in Moscow, May 25, 1972, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"There is no room for additional compromise" - Memorandum of conversations, May 25, 1972, 5:20-6:35 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.-12:32 a.m., Moscow, "SUBJECT: SALT"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"There are two questions left open from yesterday" - Memorandum of conversation, May 26, 1972, Moscow, "SUBJECTS: SALT; Communiqué"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"In his compulsive need to control events, Kissinger had deceived everybody" - Jaeger oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Jaeger,...
"Not one U.S. program was stopped by SALT" - Minutes of a meeting of the Verifcation Panel, April 23, 1974, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The MIRV explosion" - William G. Hyland, Mortal Rivals: Superpower Relations from Nixon to Reagan
by William G. Hyland (no photo)"I wish I had thought through the implications of a MIRVed world" - Kissinger background briefing, Dec. 3, 1971, cited in Walter Isaacson, Kissinger: A Biography
by
Walter Isaacson"an explosive one" - Memorandum of conversation, May 22, 1972, Moscow
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"There are in the world today"..."whose are being cut" - Memorandum of conversation, May 26, 1972, Moscow
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
The Americans really are miracle workers!" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"not for a summit of one summer" - President Nixon's notes for an address to a Join Session of the Congress on June 1, White House Special Files, Nixon Library, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
"How would you see it" and "It would be very constructive" - Memorandum of conversation among Brezhnev, Nixon, and Kissinger, May 29, 1972, Moscow
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"the President agreed to furnish Iran with laswer bombs and F-14s and F-15s" - Memorandum of conversation, May 31, 1972, 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Saadabad Palace, Tehran, Iran, Participants Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran; the president; Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"all available sophisticated weapons short of the atomic bomb" - Harold Saunders of the National Security Council staff to Kissinger, June 12, 972, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"That was a fateful, disastrous step" - Killgore oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Killgor...
"He wanted a conversation with His Imperial Majesty" - Farland oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Farland...
19: "We have produced a horrible tragedy"We got back into the Democratic break-in again" - June 20, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"What's the dope on the Watergate incident?" - June 21, 1972, Nixon White House Tapes, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://anusha.com/tapes.htm
"Good deal!" - June 23, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"These should never see the light of day" - Gray, In Nixon's Web
by L. Patrick Gray (no photo)"President Johnson told me" - Haig to Kissinger, June 18, 1972
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"This arrogant son of a bitch is a traitor" - Colson personal letter to Jay Lovestone, April 29, 1972
cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/77/tf4q...
"Assault Book" - Memorandum from Patrick Buchanan (with Ken Khachigian) for Nixon and Haldeman, June 8, 1972, Subject: "Assault Strategy," From: The President: Richard Nixon's Secret Files
by Bruce Oudes (no photo)"It was a nightmare for me" - McGovern oral history
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)"We're sitting on a powder keg" - Aug. 1, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio links - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"If you stay ten points aheaad"..."a settlement by Election Day" - Aug 2, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"What in the name of Go are we doing on this score?"..."We have all this power" - Aug. 3, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"All of our people are gun-shy" - Aug 3, 1972, entry in President's Daily Diary
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"My eyes burned from the lingering sting of tear gas" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"Bad news" - Nixon
Ibid.
"Well, you had quite a day today, didn't you? - Sept. 15, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
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Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"hurt all of us deeply" - Bolz oral history, FBI
http://www.nleomf.org/assets/pdfs/nle...
"I knew somebody would break" - Oct. 19, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
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http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"He said: 'You have to tell us'" - Oct. 19, 1972, Oval Office
Ibid.
"We set up dinner on the Sequoia" - Sept. 28, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"I know we have to end the war"..."He's made these tough decisions" - Sept. 29, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"We have a major crisis with Thieu"..."And cram it down his throat" - Transcript of a telephone conversation between President Nixon and Kissinger, Oct. 4, 1972, Library of Congress, Kissinger papers
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We must concentrate our efforts on doing whatever it takes to resolve our first objective" - Doan Huyen, "Defeating the Americans: Fighting and Talking," in The Diplomatic Front During the Paris Peace Talks on Vietnam
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Well, you got three out of three, Mr. President" - Oct. 12, 1972, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"The P kept interrupting Henry" - Oct. 12, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"The Vietnam deal" - Oct. 22, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"Thieu has just rejected the entire plan" - Back-channel message from Kissinger to Haig, Oct. 22, 1972, Saigon
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"It is hard to exaggerate" - Back-channel message from Kissinger to Haig, Oct. 22, Saigon
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"The South Vietnamese people will assume that we have been sold out" - Bunker to Haig, Oct. 22, 1972, Saigon
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"I know immediately" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"Peace is at hand" - Kissinger, White House Years
by
Henry Kissinger"The President regarded Kissinger's gaffe as a disaster" - Haig, Inner Circles
by Alexander M. Haig Jr. (no photo)"Your Government has managed to enrage the President" - Memorandum of conversation: Henry A. Kissinger; Winston Lord; Tran Kim Phuong, ambassador of the Republic of Vietnam to the United States, Jan 3, 1973, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
20: "A hell of a way to end the goddamn war""I am at a loss to explain" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"We've got to really do something regarding a new government" - Sept. 20, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"It was done in an appallingly brutal way" - Schultz oral history
by Gerald S. Strober (no photo)"It was a mistake" - Nixon
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"ruin the Foreign Service" - Nov. 13, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"That goddamn Thieu" - Nov. 15, 1972, Kissinger telephone conversations, Nixon Library
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"The list was so preposterous" - Kissinger
by
Henry KissingerI would be prepared to authorize a massive strike - Back-channel message from Nixon to Kissinger in Paris, Nov. 24, 1972
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"It's just a hell of a way to end the goddamn war" - Nov. 30, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Above all"..."Start bombing the bejeezus" - Haig memorandum, Nov. 30, 1972, "SUBJECT: The President's Meeting with the Join Chiefs of Staff"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"really agony"..."keep the hopes alive" - Dec. 5-8, 1972, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"only one viable realistic choice" - Memo from Secretary of Defense Laird to President Nixon, Dec. 12, 1972, Washington , DC, "SUBJECT: Ceasefire Agreement"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"definitely on the front burner" - Dec. 13 and 14, 1972, entries in Moorer Diary
https://research.archives.gov/id/1257586
"They're shits"..."and never forget it" - Dec. 14, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"The P" - Dec. 16, 1972, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"The whole thing that counts" - Dec. 17, 1972, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://history.state.gov/historicaldo...
http://history.state.gov/historicaldo...
"He emphasized that 'the strikes must come off'"..."'damn certain everybody understood'" - Dec. 17 and 18, 1972, entries in Moorer Diary
https://research.archives.gov/id/1257586
"to stiffen his back"..."any more of this crap" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"You will be watched on a real-time basis" - Dec. 18, 1972, entry in Moorer Diary
https://research.archives.gov/id/1257586
"Now that we have crossed the bridge let's brutalize them" - Telephone conversation between Moorer and Kissinger, Dec. 19, 1972, entry in Moorer Diary
Ibid.
"The P kept coming back to the B-52 loss problem" - Dec. 20, 1973, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"He got kicked in the teeth" - Dec. 20, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I just came from the President"..."This is a helluva way to run a war" - Dec. 22-25, 1972, entries in Moorer Diary
https://research.archives.gov/id/1257586
"Moorer is preparing a big strike" - Dec. 23, 1972, Kissinger Telephone Conversation
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"This is December 24, 1972" - Dec. 24, 1972, entry in President's Daily Diary
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"I've just lived through the most terrifying hour of my life" - Dec. 27, 1972, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Never!"..."At great cost" - Dec. 27, 1972, Oval Office
Ibid.
"We gave them a hell of a good bang" - Dec. 27, 1972, Oval Office
Ibid.
"swallowed the hook" - Dec. 28, 1972, entry in Moorer Diary
https://research.archives.gov/id/1257586
"Colson could be in some real soup"..."undeniable specifics" - Jan. 3, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
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Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Gordon Strachan" - Smith oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Smith,%...
"Colson told me" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"I know it's tough for all of you" - Jan. 8, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"at an end"..."the way in which we use these years" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon
21: "You could get a million dollars""After the cease-fire" - Jan. 23, 1973, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"Whack the hell out of them" - March 7, 1973, Kissinger Telephone Conversations
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We have a stick and a carrot" - Jan. 30, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Here's the judge saying I did this" - Feb. 3, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"all other illegal, improper, or unethical conduct" - Senate Resolution 60, 93rd Cong. (1973-74), adopted unanimously, Feb. 7. 1973
https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-co...
"We should play a hard game"..."not to let this thing run away with us" - Feb 9-11, 1973, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"one that really had R.N. tattooed on him" - Helms interview with Stanley I. Kutler, July 14, 1988, Box 15, Folder 16, Wisconsin Historical Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Conte...
"We would like to be able to put the DOD" - Memorandum of conversation: President Nixon, Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Feb. 15, 1973
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"the most serious blunder" - OPE Analysis, July 5, 1974, FBI Watergate Investigation
news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/watergate...
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/ind...
www.paperlessarchives.com/Mark_Felt_D...
"Would it hurt or help"..."We have got to get them" - Feb. 16, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
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"This judge may go off the deep end" - Feb. 28, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"For Christ's sake" - March 1, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Of course" said the president - Nixon press conference, March 2, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
"morphed into a mini-Watergate"..."totally disenchanted" - Dean, The Nixon Defense
by
John W. Dean"the continuing financial activity"..."No problem" - March 2, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I am aware of what you're doing" - March 7, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I'll fire the whole goddamn Bureau" - March 14, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
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"Give them a lot of gobble-de-gook" - March 14, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"only if it's against the government" - March 15, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Mr. Dean is Counsel to the White House"..."Members of the White House staff will not appear" - The President's News Conference, March 15, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php
"There are some questions you can't answer" - March 16, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Then you get into a real mess"..."We can't do it" - March 16, 1973, Oval Office
Ibid.
"I realize the problems of being too specific" - March 16, 1973, telephone tapes
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article...
http://nixontapes.org/passport.html
http://millercenter.org/presidentialr...
"I think what you've got to do, John" - March 17, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Is the Greek bearing gifts?" - Blind Ambition: The White House Years
by
John W. Dean"This is going to break this case" - John J. Sirca, To Set the Record Straight: The Break-in, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon
by John J. Sirica (no photo)"Future historians" - Richard Kleindienst, Justice: The Memoirs of an Attorney General
by Richard Kleindienst (no photo)"The only threat to the world's freedom"..."We are the force for peace" - March 20, 1973, Cabinet Room
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I have the impression that you don't know everything"..."It's better to fight it out" - March 21, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I would have to conclude that that probably is correct, yes, sir" - Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary on the Nomination of Louis Patrick Gray III, 93rd Cong. (March 22, 1973)
https://archive.org/stream/louispatri...
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R418...
"Gray is dead" - March 22, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I don't give a shit what happens" - March 22, 1973, Oval Office
Ibid.
"The courtroom exploded" - Samuel Dash, Chief Counsel
by Samuel Dash (no photo)"The problem is"..."back to Washington" - March 24-26, 1973, entries in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"A committee of Congress" - March 27, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"it isn't going to get any better" - March 30, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Just remember"..."one foot outside it" - Dean, The Nixon Defense
by
John W. Dean
22: "Vietnam had found its successor""Vietnam had found its successor" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"that's the ball game" - April 13, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Question: Is Hunt prepared to talk?" - April 14, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I'm going to plead guilty" - Magruder transcript, April 14, 1973, Book 4, Statement of Information, House Judiciary Committee
https://archive.org/stream/statemento...
"The first one I talked to was your predecessor" - Kleindienst, Justice
by Richard Kleindienst (no photo)"It is a privilege to be here" - Nixon remarks at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association, April 14, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
"I didn't sleep but I did weep" - Kleindienst, Justic
by Richard Kleindienst (no photo)"What you have said, Mr. President", Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"Clearly he had been drinking" - Dean, The Nixon Defense
by
John W. Dean"What the hell am I going to do?" - Gray, In Nixon's Web
by L. Patrick Gray (no photo)"Everyone's in the middle of this, John" - April 16, 1973, Old Executive Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"The FBI has just served a subpoena" - April 17, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"intensive new inquiries" - Nixon remarks announcing procedures and development in connection with that Watergate investigations, April 17, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/4...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexper...
"throwing myself on the sword" - Nixon remarks announcing procedures and development in connection with that Watergate investigations, April 17, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
Ibid.
"If matters are not handled adroitly" - April 25, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I had never seen the President so agitated...He was extremely bitter" - William D. Ruckelshaus, "Remembering Watergate," speech before the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys, Seattle, WA, Oct. 3, 2009
http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/10/08...
"I don't think it should ever get out" - April 26, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"What the hell"..."get it done, done" - April 28, 1973, Camp David Study Table
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"respectable Republican cloth coat" - The "Checkers Speech" transcript is among the Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
"He looked small and drawn" - Ehrlichman, Witness to Power
by John Ehrlichman (no photo)"The P was in terrible shape" - April 29, 1973, entry in Haldeman Diaries
by H.R. Haldeman (no photo)Video - http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4533225...
"I followed my mother's custom" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"an increasingly desperate search" - Nixon
Ibid.
"Goddamn it" - April 30, 1973, telephone tapes
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"You're the Cabinet now, boy" - April 30, 1973, telephone tapes
Ibid.
"Still no cease-fire" - NSC memorandum to Kissinger, May 9, 1973, "SUBJECT: Bunker Assessment of Vietnam Cease-Fire at X plus 90"
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Listen," she said - Lowenstein oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Lowenst...
"Presidency had been so weakened" - Stearman oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Stearma...
"It was the President's wish" - Memorandum for the record, Vernon Walters, CIA, June 28, 1972
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%...
https://archive.org/stream/statemento...
"It will be very embarrassing" - May 11, 1973, Camp David
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"If you read the cold print" - May 12, 1973, Camp David Study Table
Ibid.
"One of the things" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"Henry ordered the whole goddamn thing" - May 14, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Doesn't the President of the United States" - May 11, 1973, Camp David Study Table
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"Bullshit" - May 11, 1973, Camp David
Ibid.
"a dangerous game we were playing" - FBI special agent Nick Stames's interview with John N. Mitchell, May 11, 1973, FBI/FOIA
https://archive.org/stream/foia_Sulli...
"An FBI agent" - Ruckelhaus speech to National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys, Oct. 3, 2009
http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/10/08...
"Good god" - May 12, 1973, Camp David Study Table
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"the national security thing"..."son of a bitch" - May 20, 1973, Camp David Study Table
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"the bad thing is that the president approved burglaries" - May 17, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"If we allow ourselves" - May 14, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"He's thinking of you" - May 14, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
Ibid.
23: "The President of the United States can never admit that""the grave, difficult and delicate issues" - Nominations of Archibald Cox, Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. Senate, 93rd Cong., 1st Sess. (May 21, 1973)
http://www.loc.gov/law/find/nominatio...
http://www.hofstralawreview.org/wp-co...
http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.e...
"the partisan viper" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"The balance between the three branches" - William Green Miller oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Miller,...
"Watergate is the bursting of the boil" - Fulbright quoted in John W. Finney , "Cambodia: The House Gets Tough," New York Times, May 13, 1973
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract...
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/nyt73.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/us/...
"The Founding Fathers" - Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 17, 1973
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/h...
http://www.archive.org/stream/preside...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSpFI...
"That could never happen here" - Odle testimony, Senate Watergate Committee, May 17, 1973
http://www.archive.org/stream/preside...
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53...
"The problem in Southeast Asia" - Memorandum of conversation, May 18, 1973, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"he had a very important message" - Caulfield testimony, Senate Watergate Committee, May 22, 1973
http://www.archive.org/stream/preside...
https://cryptome.org/2012/05/dean-dee...
"I ordered that they use any means necessary" - May 23, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"There's going to be a full-blown war" - Joseph B. Treaster, "U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam; Hanoi Frees the Last P.O.W.," New York Times, March 29, 1973
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gener...
"There was no plan to end the war" - May 24, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
Video - http://www.biography.com/people/richa...
"Wouldn't it be better for the country" - May 25, 1973, telephone tapes
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/19...
http://archives.savannahnow.com/sav_p...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"so that we can strategize" - June 4, 1973, Old Executive Office Building
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"a tape of a conversation" - June 6, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I have no tapes" - June 14, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"It's almost a miracle" - June 12, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"We must recognize" - June 18, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I think that I still have the record" - Schlesinger Oral History Interview, Dec. 10, 2007, Nixon Presidential Library
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
"we would never recover" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"I thought to myself"..."'Nixon taped all of his conversations'" - 2012 Chapman Law Review Symposium, 2012, "The 40th Anniversary of Watergate" A Commemoration of the Rule of Law," Chapman Law Review 16 (Spring 2012)
https://litigation-essentials.lexisne...
http://www.lacba.org/Files/LAL/Vol34N...
by
John W. Dean"Should have destroyed the tapes" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"The time has come to turn Watergate over to the courts"..."the conduct of this great office" - Nixon address to the nation about the Watergate investigations, Aug. 15, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexper...
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQwY9...
24: "The same enemies""Let others wallow in Watergate" - Nixon remarks to members of the White House staff on returning from Bethesda Naval Hospital, White House Press Office, July 20, 1973, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ind...
http://www.bjornetjenesten.dk/tekster...
"I'm going to hit them" - June 13, 1973, telephone tapes
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"We've been at this for four years" - June 2, 1973, Camp David Study Table
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"As you are well aware" - June 3, 1973, Camp David Study Table
Ibid.
All testimony from Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell quoted in this chapter is taken from the printed records of the Senate Watergate Committee
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/h...
http://www.archives.gov/research/guid...
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/g...
"Now that we have disposed" - Richardson affidavit, June 17, 1974, statement of information to House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry, Book XI
https://archive.org/stream/statemento...
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/ll.old/...
"We've got an even worse problem than Agnew" - Ruckelshaus, "Remembering Watergate"
http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/10/08...
"The President all along intended"..."the order discharging Cox" - Ruckelshaus, "Remembering Watergate"
Ibid.
"I'm going to go home to read" - These words were reported in newspapers around the world. "Whether we shall continue" and Doyle's remark are in James Doyle, Not Above the Law
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55...
http://www.politico.com/magazine/stor...
by
James Doyle"All our intelligence said" - Minutes of a Cabinet meeting, Oct. 18, 1973, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
The switchboard just got a call from 10 Downing Street - Transcript of telephone conversation between Kissinger and Scowcroft, 7:55 p.m., Oct. 11, 1973, Washington, DC
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"If you don't do something" - Armstrong oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Armstro...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Armstro...
"The Soviets were shipping warheads" - Ransom oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Ransom,...
"Nixon was in his family quarters" - Sonnenfeldt oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Sonnenf...
"The Brezhnev letter"..."what do we do?" - Moorer Diaries: CJCS Memo M-88-73, "SUBJ: NSC/JCS Meeting, Wednesday/Thursday, 24/25 October 1973
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"One of the things that I recall" - Eagleburger oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Eaglebu...
"A government of laws" - Elliot Richardson, The Creative Balance
by Elliot Richardson (no photo)"to kill the President" - Kissinger, Years of Upheaval
by
Henry Kissinger"You are absolutely free...?" - Hearings, Special Prosecutor, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 93rd Cong. 1st Sess.
https://archive.org/stream/specialrep...
"a wild hare" and "Nixon lied to me" - Saxbe oral history, Nixon Library
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I for the first time realized" - Jaworski oral history, Baylor University, Waco, TX
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/...
http://www.baylor.edu/oralhistory/new...
"The answer - fight" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon
25: United States v. Richard Milhous Nixon"Above all else" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"the so-called Watergate affair" - State of the Union Address, Jan. 30, 1974
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o-H-...
Video - http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/...
"The biggest danger"..."the way he really feels" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"I meant that the whole transaction was wrong" - The president's news conference, March 6, 1974
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
http://watergate.info/judiciary/APPI.PDF
"It is almost like we have a death wish" - March 14, 1973
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"all the additional evidence" - The President's Address to the Nation, April 29, 1974
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexper...
Video - http://millercenter.org/president/bio...
Video - http://www.history.com/speeches/nixon...
"Deplorable, disgusting, shabby, immoral" - Scott quoted in Christopher Lydon, "Senator Brands Conduct as 'Immoral,'" New York Times, May 8, 1974
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract...
by
Ray Locker"The great tragedy" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"He came out to greet Chancellor Kreisky" - White oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/White,%...
"The Egyptians, as I saw" - Houghton oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Houghto...
"Wasn't that Nixon...?" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"He stopped being the Secretary of State" - Saunders oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Saunder...
"Who was going to be" - Suddarth oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Suddart...
"a face carved out of wood" - Goodby oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Goodby,...
"My god, he really thinks" - June 19, 1973, telephone tapes
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"SALT - this is the most difficult" - Memorandum of conversation, June 30, 1974, Moscow
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"We suggest that the U.S." - Memorandum of conversation, June 30, 1974
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"Sophisticates in the press" - Memorandum of conversation, July 2, 1974
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
https://history.state.gov/historicald...
"For example, I am indicted" - April 17, 1973, Oval Office
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Audio files - http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
"I suppose it could be said" - Nixon
by
Richard M. Nixon"End career as a fighter?" - Nixon
Ibid.
"Mr. President," Saxbe said - Saxbe interview with Stanley B. Kutler, May 15, 1987, cited in Kutler, The Wars of Watergate
by Stanley I. Kutler (no photo)"There was a hush as he went to the podium" - Ransom oral history
http://adst.org/oral-history/oral-his...
http://www.adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Ransom,...
"I remember my old man" - Nixon remarks on departure from White House, Aug. 9, 1974, Public Papers of Richard Nixon
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pi...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexper...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Gao...
Epilogue"He just flat-lined" - Steve Bull interviewed by Timothy Naftali for the Richard Nixon Presidential Oral History Project, June 25, 2007
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Video - http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?...
"Richard! Wake up, Richard!" - This account of Nixon's brush with death is taken from the memoir of the physician who treated him, John C. Lungren, MD, Healing Richard Nixon
by John C. Lungren (no photo)"What history says" - Nixon/Frost interview, recorded May 4, 1977
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hi...
http://www.politico.com/story/2010/05...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-Ia...
by David Frost (no photo)"As people look back on the Nixon administration" - Nixon interview on NBC's Meet the Press, April 10, 1988
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6872152/ns/...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-1...
Video - http://search.alexanderstreet.com/pre...
"You have to, in some cases, sacrifice a lot of virtue" - Ray Price interview by Timothy Naftali for the Richard Nixon Presidential Oral History Project, April 4, 2007
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtualli...
http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresear...
Video - http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?...
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For all of you:
This thread is a "spoiler thread" and is a bibliography thread which identifies many of the books which were referenced or used as primary documents during the writing of One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon. Please feel free to add properly cited books (book covers, author's photo, and author's links). Add a review or a few words why this book is important to the subject matter, etc.; but remember there is no self promotion, etc. Any self promotion links or posts are removed.
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Tim Weiner
Thank you Teri, awesome work on this bibliography.
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These books Bentley suggests get onto the this thread but they are really WWII focused not Nixon or Vietnam
Iris Chang
Robert Leckie
Eugene B. Sledge
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Thanks so much Vincent.
Looks at the "Decent Interval" with Vietnam:
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Ken HughesGeneral book on Vietnam:
by Stanley Karnow (no photo)
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byGary L. McIntosh (no photo)Adding this book here at Teri's request. I believe this book helps to understand certain personality traits that we find in leaders particularly one as interesting as Nixon.
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The History Book Club
Books mentioned in this topic
Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership: The Paradox of Personal Dysfunction (other topics)Vietnam: A History (other topics)
Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection (other topics)
Hiroshima Notes (other topics)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Gary L. McIntosh (other topics)Stanley Karnow (other topics)
Ken Hughes (other topics)
Kenzaburō Ōe (other topics)
Robert Leckie (other topics)
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