All Posts Tagged With: "Richard M. Nixon"
Doc of the Day: Richard Nixon's Smoking Gun Tape
On June 23, 1972, the “Smoking Gun Tape” of President Richard Nixon was recorded in the Oval Office at the White House. A few days earlier, on June 17, 1972, five men employed by Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) had been arrested at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in [...]
23Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
In the News: Additional Nixon documents and tapes released
On December 2, the National Archives and the Nixon Presidential Library will be releasing an additional 200 hours of White House tape recordings and 90,000 pages of documents from Richard Nixon’s administration. The recordings, which represent the 12th such release since 1980, cover the period from November 1972 to January 1973. Among the subjects discussed [...]
2Dec2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
In the News: Presidential debates
Last night in New York, Barack Obama and John McCain participated in the third and final presidential debate of this 2008 election. The focus was on domestic issues, including the economy. The debate transcript can be seen here, at the Web site of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the organization that conducts the debates. For [...]
16Oct2008 | mdblogger | 7 comments | Continued
Doc of the Day: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
On August 7, 1964, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The resolution marked the beginning of the Vietnam War, authorizing American military intervention “to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.” Thus, after years of providing indirect help to the South Vietnamese government against the Vietcong—Communist rebels [...]
7Aug2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued