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Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Nixon was elected the 37th President of the United States (1969-1974) after previously serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from California. After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign the office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.
Reconciliation was the first goal set by President Richard M. Nixon. The Nation was painfully divided, with turbulence in the cities and war overseas. During his Presidency, Nixon succeeded in ending American fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the U.S.S.R. and China. But the Watergate scandal brought fresh divisions to the country and ultimately led to his resignation.
His election in 1968 had climaxed a career unusual on two counts: his early success and his comeback after being defeated for President in 1960 and for Governor of California in 1962.
Born in California in 1913, Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law. In 1940, he married Patricia Ryan; they had two daughters, Patricia (Tricia) and Julie. During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific.
On leaving the service, he was elected to Congress from his California district. In 1950, he won a Senate seat. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate.
As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.
His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing.
Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria.
In his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins on record.
Within a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called "Watergate" scandal, stemming from a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign. The break-in was traced to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. A number of administration officials resigned; some were later convicted of offenses connected with efforts to cover up the affair. Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation.
As a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973. Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President.
Faced with what seemed almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America."
In his last years, Nixon gained praise as an elder statesman. By the time of his death on April 22, 1994, he had written numerous books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy.
The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Frank Freidel and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2006 by the White House Historical Association.
(Source: The White House | Richard M. Nixon)
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Patricia Ryan Nixon
As the wife of the President Richard Nixon, Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was an avid supporter of charitable causes and volunteerism.
Born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16 in Ely, Nevada, "Pat" Nixon acquired her nickname within hours. Her father, William Ryan, called her his "St. Patrick's babe in the morn" when he came home from the mines before dawn.
Soon the family moved to California and settled on a small truck farm near Los Angeles--a life of hard work with few luxuries. Her mother, Kate Halberstadt Bender Ryan, died in 1925; at 13 Pat assumed all the household duties for her father and two older brothers. At 18, she lost her father after nursing him through months of illness. Left on her own and determined to continue her education, she worked her way through the University of Southern California. She held part-time jobs on campus, as a sales clerk in a fashionable department store, and as an extra in the movies--and she graduated cum laude in 1937.
She accepted a position as a high-school teacher in Whittier; and there she met Richard Nixon, who had come home from Duke University Law School to establish a practice. They became acquainted at a Little Theater group when they were cast in the same play, and were married on June 21, 1940.
During World War II, she worked as a government economist while he served in the Navy. She campaigned at his side in 1946 when he entered politics, running successfully for Congress, and afterward. Within six years she saw him elected to the House, the Senate, and the Vice Presidency on the ticket with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Despite the demands of official life, the Nixons were devoted parents to their two daughters, Tricia (now Mrs. Edward Cox), and Julie (now Mrs. David Eisenhower).
A tireless campaigner when he ran unsuccessfully for President in 1960, she was at his side when he ran again in 1968--and won. She had once remarked succinctly, "It takes heart to be in political life."
Pat Nixon used her position as First Lady to encourage volunteer service--"the spirit of people helping people." She invited hundreds of families to nondenominational Sunday services in the East Room. She instituted a series of performances by artists in varied American traditions--from opera to bluegrass. Mrs. Nixon took quiet pride in adding 600 paintings and antiques to the White House Collection.
She had shared her husband's journeys abroad in his Vice Presidential years, and she continued the practice during his Presidency. Her travels included the historic visit to the People's Republic of China and the summit meetings in the Soviet Union. Her first solo trip was a journey of compassion to take relief supplies to earthquake victims in Peru. Later she visited Africa and South America with the unique diplomatic standing of Personal Representative of the President. Always she was a charming envoy.
Mrs. Nixon met the troubled days of Watergate with dignity. "I love my husband," she said, "I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments." She died at home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, on June 22, 1993. Her husband followed her in death ten months later. She and the former President are buried at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.
The biographies of the First Ladies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The First Ladies of the United States of America,” by Allida Black. Copyright 2009 by the White House Historical Association.
(Source: The White House | Patricia Ryan Nixon)
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Patricia "Tricia" Nixon Cox
Patricia "Tricia" Nixon Cox (born February 21, 1946) is the elder daughter of the 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, and sister to Julie Nixon Eisenhower.
Cox performed more of a ceremonial role during her father's political career than did her younger sister Julie Nixon Eisenhower, accompanying him to many campaign stops and, after his presidential inauguration, state trips around the world.
She is married to Edward Finch Cox and is the mother of Christopher Nixon Cox.
Cox attended Finch College in Manhattan, New York, a since-closed women's college best known as a "Finishing School" for affluent young women. At her graduation on June 14, 1968, her father served as a special guest speaker. Cox was presented at the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City in 1964.
Cox married Harvard Law student Edward Finch Cox in a White House Rose Garden ceremony on June 12, 1971
She has lived a very private life, staying home to care for her son, Christopher Nixon Cox, born in March 1979. Her husband is now a corporate attorney and the chairperson of the New York Republican State Committee. She serves on the boards of many medical-research institutions, as well as the Richard Nixon Foundation at the Nixon Library in California.
(Source: Project Gutenburg | Tricia Nixon)
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Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who was born on July 5, 1948, is the second daughter of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, and Pat Nixon. She is married to David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower and a prominent military historian. They have three grown children, and live near Philadelphia.
Julie Eisenhower is best known as the passionate, stalwart supporter of her father through the Watergate investigation and crisis in his second term that led to his resignation in disgrace in August 1974. She was so visible that the journalist Nora Ephron said Julie had become her father’s “First Lady in practice if not in fact.” She gave scores of interviews, often attacking the press, and, she told reporters, she helped keep her father from quitting earlier than he did. When her father resigned on Aug. 8, 1974, she was standing behind him, and one of the most memorable images of that historic moment was of her and her father hugging afterward.
While her father served as president, she also wrote several books and worked as assistant managing editor of the Saturday Evening Post. She was far more comfortable in the public eye than her mother or her sister, Tricia, who is best remembered for her big White House wedding to Edward Cox.
After the tumultuous years of Richard Nixon’s presidency and its traumatic end, Mrs. Eisenhower and her husband led a quiet, private life. He is the author of several works of history, and is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Eisenhower has raised her family, given occasional speeches, and written books, including one on her mother titled “Pat Nixon: The Untold Story” (1986). She also became active in the managing of her father’s presidential library in Yorba Linda, Calif.
It was in that role that she had a rare return to the spotlight, when a feud she was having with her sister over who would control operations at the Nixon library and birthplace became public. The dispute was resolved in August 2002, after the sisters ended two days of court-ordered mediation with a confidential agreement.
Julie Eisenhower was back in the news during the 2008 presidential campaign, when it was reported that she had contributed $2,300 to Barack Obama in his bid for the Democratic nomination for president, the maximum allowed in the primary season under federal election laws.
Julie Nixon attended Smith College and earned a master’s degree from The Catholic University of America in 1972. She had met David Eisenhower at the 1956 Republican National Convention, when they were both 8 years old. His grandfather and her father were being nominated for second terms as president and vice president. They were married in December 1968.
(Source: The New York Times | Julie Nixon Eisenhower)
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Spiro Agnew
Spiro Agnew was born on November 9, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1966, he was elected governor of Maryland. He was elected vice president under Richard Nixon in 1969, but resigned from his second term in 1973 after being charged with bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud. Following the scandal, Agnew became a business consultant and wrote a novel. He died on September 17, 1996, in Berlin, Maryland.
Early Life
Spiro Theodore Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 9, 1918. His father was a Greek immigrant, and his mother a widow from Virginia. After attending Baltimore public schools, in 1937, Spiro Agnew enrolled at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied chemistry. Three years later, he transferred to the University of Baltimore School of Law, and started attending night classes there. While Agnew was in law school, he earned a living with a day job at an insurance company.
Marriage and Military
In late 1941, Spiro T. Agnew was drafted into the peacetime Selective Service System. After completing his training as a tank officer at Fort Knox, in 1942, Agnew married his law school classmate, Elinor Isabel Judefind, nicknamed Judy. Not long after, Agnew was drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War II, ultimately earning a Bronze Star for his service.
In 1946, Agnew was able to go back to the University of Baltimore Law School through the GI Bill of Rights. That same year, his wife gave birth to the first of the couple's four children.
Lawyer and Local Politician
Spiro Agnew completed his law degree in 1947. Soon after, he began practicing at a Baltimore legal firm, and eventually started a private practice in nearby Towson. Agnew had just purchased a house in the suburbs when, in 1950, he was recalled to active duty in the Korean War. Upon his return to Baltimore, Agnew became active in local politics. In 1957, he was appointed to served on the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals. In 1962, he was elected the first Republican county executive of the 20th century. Four years later, he won election to the Maryland governorship.
Vice President
In 1969, Agnew was elected the 39th vice president of the United States, serving under Richard Nixon's Republican administration. During his term, he became known for his outspoken speeches criticizing protesters of the Vietnam War, and for accusing Democrats of being "soft on Communism."
In 1973, Agnew was accused of having committed extortion, bribery and income-tax violations while in office as Maryland's governor. Initially, Agnew refused to resign if indicted, stating that he would only leave his office by impeachment. Nixon was also in danger of being impeached, as a result of the Watergate scandal. When Agnew was indicted, his lawyers plea-bargained with a federal judge on his behalf; he ultimately agreed to resign on October 10, 1973.
Forced to leave politics, Agnew became an international trade consultant. He died of leukemia on September 17, 1996, at the age of 77, in Berlin, Maryland.
(Source: Biography | Spiro Agnew)
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Gerald R. Ford
When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974 as our 38th President, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances...This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts."
When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts."
It was indeed an unprecedented time. He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign.
Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks. There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace.
The President acted to curb the trend toward Government intervention and spending as a means of solving the problems of American society and the economy. In the long run, he believed, this shift would bring a better life for all Americans.
Ford's reputation for integrity and openness had made him popular during his 25 years in Congress. From 1965 to 1973, he was House Minority Leader. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1913, he grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He starred on the University of Michigan football team, then went to Yale, where he served as assistant coach while earning his law degree. During World War II he attained the rank of lieutenant commander in the Navy. After the war he returned to Grand Rapids, where he began the practice of law, and entered Republican politics. A few weeks before his election to Congress in 1948, he married Elizabeth Bloomer. They have four children: Michael, John, Steven, and Susan.
As President, Ford tried to calm earlier controversies by granting former President Nixon a full pardon. His nominee for Vice President, former Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, was the second person to fill that office by appointment. Gradually, Ford selected a cabinet of his own.
Ford established his policies during his first year in office, despite opposition from a heavily Democratic Congress. His first goal was to curb inflation. Then, when recession became the Nation's most serious domestic problem, he shifted to measures aimed at stimulating the economy. But, still fearing inflation, Ford vetoed a number of non-military appropriations bills that would have further increased the already heavy budgetary deficit. During his first 14 months as President he vetoed 39 measures. His vetoes were usually sustained.
Ford continued as he had in his Congressional days to view himself as "a moderate in domestic affairs, a conservative in fiscal affairs, and a dyed-in-the-wool internationalist in foreign affairs." A major goal was to help business operate more freely by reducing taxes upon it and easing the controls exercised by regulatory agencies. "We...declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers," he said.
In foreign affairs Ford acted vigorously to maintain U. S. power and prestige after the collapse of Cambodia and South Viet Nam. Preventing a new war in the Middle East remained a major objective; by providing aid to both Israel and Egypt, the Ford Administration helped persuade the two countries to accept an interim truce agreement. Detente with the Soviet Union continued. President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev set new limitations upon nuclear weapons.
President Ford won the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1976, but lost the election to his Democratic opponent, former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia.
On Inauguration Day, President Carter began his speech: "For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land." A grateful people concurred.
(Source:The White House | Gerald R. Ford)
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George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush, as the 41st President (1989-1993), brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States "a kinder and gentler nation" in the face of a dramatically changing world.
George Bush brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States "a kinder and gentler nation." In his Inaugural Address he pledged in "a moment rich with promise" to use American strength as "a force for good."
Coming from a family with a tradition of public service, George Herbert Walker Bush felt the responsibility to make his contribution both in time of war and in peace. Born in Milton, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1924, he became a student leader at Phillips Academy in Andover. On his 18th birthday he enlisted in the armed forces. The youngest pilot in the Navy when he received his wings, he flew 58 combat missions during World War II. On one mission over the Pacific as a torpedo bomber pilot he was shot down by Japanese antiaircraft fire and was rescued from the water by a U. S. submarine. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action.
Bush next turned his energies toward completing his education and raising a family. In January 1945 he married Barbara Pierce. They had six children-- George, Robin (who died as a child), John (known as Jeb), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy.
At Yale University he excelled both in sports and in his studies; he was captain of the baseball team and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation Bush embarked on a career in the oil industry of West Texas.
Like his father, Prescott Bush, who was elected a Senator from Connecticut in 1952, George became interested in public service and politics. He served two terms as a Representative to Congress from Texas. Twice he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate. Then he was appointed to a series of high-level positions: Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Chief of the U. S. Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1980 Bush campaigned for the Republican nomination for President. He lost, but was chosen as a running mate by Ronald Reagan. As Vice President, Bush had responsibility in several domestic areas, including Federal deregulation and anti-drug programs, and visited scores of foreign countries. In 1988 Bush won the Republican nomination for President and, with Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate, he defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the general election.
Bush faced a dramatically changing world, as the Cold War ended after 40 bitter years, the Communist empire broke up, and the Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union ceased to exist; and reformist President Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Bush had supported, resigned. While Bush hailed the march of democracy, he insisted on restraint in U. S. policy toward the group of new nations.
In other areas of foreign policy, President Bush sent American troops into Panama to overthrow the corrupt regime of General Manuel Noriega, who was threatening the security of the canal and the Americans living there. Noriega was brought to the United States for trial as a drug trafficker.
Bush's greatest test came when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, then threatened to move into Saudi Arabia. Vowing to free Kuwait, Bush rallied the United Nations, the U. S. people, and Congress and sent 425,000 American troops. They were joined by 118,000 troops from allied nations. After weeks of air and missile bombardment, the 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army.
Despite unprecedented popularity from this military and diplomatic triumph, Bush was unable to withstand discontent at home from a faltering economy, rising violence in inner cities, and continued high deficit spending. In 1992 he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat William Clinton.
(Source: The White House | George H W Bush)
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977. He also served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969, until November 3, 1975. In July, 1983 he was appointed by President Reagan to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985, and from 1984-1990 he served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. From 1986-1988 he was a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy of the National Security Council and Defense Department. He has served as a member of the Defense Policy Board since 2001.
At present, Dr. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He is also a member of the International Council of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; a Counselor to and Trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; an Honorary Governor of the Foreign Policy Association; and an Honor Member of the International Olympic Committee. Among his other activities, Dr. Kissinger served as a member of the Board of Directors of ContiGroup Companies, Inc. from 1988-2014 and remains an Advisor to the Board, a position he also holds at American Express Company since 2005, after serving on the Board from 1984. He is also a Trustee Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Director Emeritus of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.; and a Director of the International Rescue Committee.
Among the awards Dr. Kissinger has received have been a Bronze Star from the U.S. Army in 1945; the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973; the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian award) in 1977; and the Medal of Liberty (given one time to ten foreign-born American leaders) in 1986.
Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, came to the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a United States citizen in 1943. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1950 and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1952 and 1954.
From 1954 until 1969 he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University, in both the Department of Government and the Center for International Affairs. He was Director of the Harvard International Seminar from 1952 to 1969.
Dr. Kissinger is married to the former Nancy Maginnes and is the father of two children by a previous marriage.
(Source: Henry A. Kissinger Official Website)
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Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. was appointed Secretary of State by President Ronald Reagan and assumed the office on January 22, 1981. He served a relatively short time in office, facing many challenging situations before stepping down on July 5, 1982.
Rise to Prominence
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Haig attended the University of Notre Dame before transferring to the United States Military Academy at West Point. After graduating from the Academy in 1947, he embarked on a long and successful career in the military, serving with distinction in both Korea and in Vietnam.
Upon completing graduate studies at Georgetown University in 1962, he worked at the Pentagon under both Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. In 1969 he became military adviser to Henry Kissinger, and then Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security in 1971. He served as Chief of Staff for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in 1973-74, and then became Supreme Allied Commander in Europe in 1974, a position that he held until he resigned on January 3, 1979. After two years in the private sector, he returned to government service when President Reagan selected him to be Secretary of State.
Influence on American Diplomacy
As Secretary of State, Haig had hoped to restore the Department of State to the dominant position in foreign policy-making that it had lost during previous administrations. However, the United States faced many challenges during the time that Haig served as Secretary of State, including the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, the Solidarity movement in Poland, disputes with the People’s Republic of China over trade and Taiwan, escalating tensions between the United Kingdom and Argentina, and a new round of conflict between Israel, Lebanon, and Syria. He also had to deal with the intra-government turmoil that followed in the wake of the attempted assassination of President Reagan.
Haig did have some diplomatic successes, particularly in regards to relations with China, where he forged a balance that both stabilized relations with the PRC and allowed for the continuation of arms sales to the government on Taiwan.
He also strengthened the NATO alliance and helped to re-orient the focus of U.S. foreign policy back toward the Soviet Union, both of which reflected the overall foreign policy priorities of the Reagan Administration.
Nevertheless, his efforts to broker diplomatic resolutions to the disputes over the Falkland Islands and in the Middle East did not succeed. Throughout his tenure as Secretary, Haig was overshadowed in foreign policy matters by other members of the Administration and was thus unable to fully control the Administration’s diplomatic process. He resigned from office after only 18 months.
(Source: U. S. Department of State | Office of the Historian)
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L. Patrick Gray
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May 3, 1972 - April 27, 1973
Louis Patrick Gray, III was born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 18, 1916. He attended schools in St. Louis and Houston, Texas. After attending Rice University for a period, Mr. Gray enrolled at the United States Naval Academy and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1940. The Navy commissioned Mr. Gray as a line officer and he served throughout World War II and the Korean War.
In 1949, between his two tours of duty, Mr. Gray received a J.D. degree from George Washington University Law School. He was admitted to practice before the Washington D.C. Bar in 1949; later he was admitted to practice law by the Connecticut State Bar, the United States Military Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States Supreme Court. After retiring from the Navy in 1960 with the rank of Captain, Mr. Gray served as military assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1961, he entered private practice.
In the late 1960s, Mr. Gray returned to the federal government and worked in the Nixon administration in several different positions. In 1970, President Nixon appointed Mr. Gray as assistant attorney general for the Civil Division in the Department of Justice. In 1972, Mr. Gray was appointed deputy attorney general, but before he could be confirmed by the full Senate, his nomination was withdrawn. Instead, President Nixon designated him as Acting Director of the FBI. Gray served in this position for less than a year.
(Source: FBI | Louis Patrick Gray, III)
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Harry H. R. Haldeman
Harry Robbins Haldeman was born on October 27, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. He is also frequently referred to as either H. R. or "Bob" Haldeman. As a young man, Haldeman participated in the Boy Scouts of America and eventually attained the rank of Eagle Scout. He attended the prestigious Harvard School in Los Angeles and met his future wife, Joanne Horton, during those years. The two married in 1949.
As an undergraduate, Haldeman first attended the University of Redlands before attending the University of California. During World War II, Haldeman served in the US Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. Following the war, he attended the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated in 1948 with a BS in Business Administration. It was a student at UCLA that he first met future White House staffer John Ehrlichman.
After graduating from UCLA, Haldeman joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1949. He became an account executive at the firm's New York location before rising in 1959 to the position of vice president and manager of the agency's California office. He remained with the agency until 1968, at which time he became the Chief of Staff of Richard Nixon's victorious Presidential campaign. In previous election cycles, Haldeman worked as an Advance Man for Richard Nixon's Vice P:residential campaign in 1956 and as Tour Manager of Nixon’s unsuccessful 1960 Presidential campaign as well as the manager of Nixon's 1962 gubernatorial campaign in California.
Following the 1969 inauguration of Richard Nixon, Haldeman became the President's Chief of Staff with the official title of Assistant to the President. He served in that capacity until his resignation on April 30, 1973, which came as a result of his suspected involvement in the Watergate scandal.
For his part in the events surrounding the scandal, he was tried in Federal court and convicted of perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice on January 1, 1975. Upon appeal, his original sentence of two-and-a-half to eight years was reduced to one to four years. He served 18 months at Lompoc Federal Prison in California before being paroled on December 20, 1978. That same year, Haldeman’s memoir The End of Power, coauthored with Joseph DiMona, was published.
Having returned to private life, Haldeman became a businessman and private consultant with interests in real estate development, hotels and restaurants. A lifelong Christian Scientist, Haldeman refused medical treatment for abdominal cancer and eventually died at his home in Santa Barbara, California on November 12, 1993. His personal White House-era diaries, known as The Haldeman Diaries, were published posthumously in 1994.
(Source: Nixon Presidential Library and Museum)
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Richard Helms
U.S. intelligence director, was born in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, the son of Herman Helms, a district manager for the Aluminum Company of America, and mother Marion McGarrah. His maternal grandfather, Gates McGarrah, was a leading international banker. Helms was educated at schools both in New Jersey and in Switzerland and Germany. As a young student in Europe, Helms became conversant in French and German. He returned to the United States to attend Williams College in Massachusetts where in 1935 he graduated magna cum laude, double-majoring in English literature and history. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, he served as class president and as editor of the college newspaper and yearbook, and he was voted "most likely to succeed" and "most respected" by his undergraduate peers.
Upon graduation from college Helms entered the field of journalism. Employed by United Press, he traveled in Europe and wrote about the Nazis as they began to seize power in Germany. He managed to meet and interview Adolf Hitler at a rally in Nuremberg in 1936. Helms was impressed by the dictator's pleasant manner as well as the well-managed political pageantry that accompanied his speeches, but was alarmed by Hitler's conversational references to war preparations. Helms returned to the United States and in 1937 began working as an advertising manager for the Indianapolis Times. In 1939 he met and soon married his first wife, Julia Bretzman Shields, a divorcée with two children. They had a son together.
OSS and CIA
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. Naval Reserve commissioned Helms as a lieutenant in July 1942; by August 1943 his foreign-language abilities had landed him in America's premier wartime intelligence organization, the Office of Strategic Services. He had OSS assignments in Britain, Luxembourg, and Germany. After the war Helms became a civilian employee in the War Department. In 1947 he transferred to the newly established Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was assigned to the Directorate for Plans, the operations side of the CIA.
By the early 1950s Helms had risen to the position of deputy to the head of the Directorate for Plans. In 1955 he supervised the digging of a five-hundred-meter tunnel from West Berlin to East Berlin, from which U.S. intelligence was able to wiretap the main Soviet telephone links that connected Moscow to East Berlin. This operation was eventually discovered by the Soviets and used for disinformation against the West, but Helms's superiors were sufficiently impressed by the tunnel achievement to boost him up the CIA's career ladder.
During the administration of John F. Kennedy, Helms knew about but did not plan or guide the disastrous Bay of Pigs covert operation in 1961, designed to overthrow Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba, and his Communist regime. When the presidential axe fell on those in charge of the failed operation, Helms escaped culpability and in 1962 was named head of the Directorate for Plans. He was immediately drawn into the ongoing goal of the Kennedy White House to free the Western Hemisphere from Castro's influence, either through further attempts to undermine his regime or by killing Castro himself. Although the degree to which President Kennedy is responsible for the assassination plot against Castro remains unclear, Helms returned from a visit to the White House with the belief that the president wanted Castro eliminated--the sooner the better. After initial attempts to assassinate Castro failed, Helms worked closely with the attorney general (and President Kennedy's brother) Robert Kennedy in planning covert actions by the CIA to overthrow Castro's rule in Cuba. The CIA's Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), Allen Dulles, assigned personnel in the Directorate of Plans to carry out the assassination; they in turn hired mafia bosses to assist in the effort. Several attempts against Castro's life were tried, including the use of exploding cigars and poison pills, but all failed--in large part because Castro proved elusive and well guarded by Soviet-trained security forces. When Helms inherited these operations against Castro as the new Directorate of Plans, he discontinued the overtures to the mafia but allowed the other plots to move forward--all unsuccessfully.
In 1965 Helms was named Deputy Director of the CIA, and in 1966 he headed the agency as Director of Central Intelligence. In this capacity he kept President Lyndon B. Johnson briefed on the war in Vietnam. Despite the United States' ongoing setbacks in the war, Helms initially enjoyed a close relationship with Johnson and visited with him regularly. Ongoing turbulence related to the Vietnam War put increasing strain on this relationship, however, and their meetings became fewer and fewer.
In 1968 Helms's first marriage ended in divorce, and the next year he married Cynthia McKelvie. Tall, dashing, and impeccably dressed, the spy chief Helms became a well-known figure around Washington. He was admired as an interesting conversationalist, a competent tennis player and social dancer, and an eager partygoer despite his reputation at work for being reserved and laconic.
Nixon
The administration of Richard M. Nixon sought to clamp down on leaks within the executive branch. To this end, President Nixon signed a master spy plan in 1970, allowing use of America's intelligence agencies for domestic espionage against Vietnam War dissenters. The top figures in American espionage, including Richard Helms and J. Edgar Hoover, advocated this plan of action (known as the Huston Plan, after Tom Charles Huston, the young White House aide who drafted it). The plan's objective was to covertly gather information about student protesters who opposed the war, then employ the Federal Bureau of Information (FBI) to conduct clandestine operations to foil the protesters. These operations mostly involved harassment activities, including the use of anonymous letters designed to discredit protester groups. Hoover--at the time the FBI's director--soon grew concerned that the Huston Plan might leak to the public and undermine his standing in the intelligence community; he voiced his objections to the plan to the president, who in turn rescinded his initial approval of the domestic spy plan. Helms, for his part, had not objected to this employment of the CIA for domestic intelligence operations.
Then came the Watergate scandal. Helms's relationship with President Nixon, never close, went into a rapid downward spiral as the DCI resisted efforts by the White House to enlist the CIA in a cover-up of the Watergate affair. The president wanted the CIA to support the argument that national security interests prohibited the Federal Bureau of Investigation from tracing Watergate funds to the White House. Helms refused. In 1973, as the relationship between Nixon and the DCI soured, the president fired him, but he did grant Helms's request to become U.S. ambassador to Iran. Helms served in Tehran from March 1973 until December 1976, leaving a year before Iran became engulfed in revolution.
As DCI, at the behest of Nixon, Helms had also worked to destabilize the democratically elected regime of Salvador Allende in Chile. Allende, whose friendly relationship with the Soviet Union did not mesh with Nixon's preference for Western leaders who were "ABC"--anybody but Communists--was killed during a coup on 11 September 1973. In 1973 during the course of the confirmation hearings for Helms's ambassadorship to Iran, a member of the Senate asked Helms if the CIA had tried to overthrow Allende. Helms replied, "No, sir." When the Senate subsequently discovered that in fact the CIA had been deeply involved in anti-Allende covert actions, its members were outraged and pursued the question of Helms's perjury in court. In 1977, Helms conceded before a federal district court in Washington, D.C., that he had misled the committee. He defended himself on grounds that he had a sworn obligation to keep the nation's secrets, but this argument begged the question of why he never informed the committee members at least privately about the operations. The court convicted Helms on misdemeanor counts of lying before a congressional committee while under oath. "You stand before this court in disgrace and shame," said Judge Barrington D. Parker, who fined Helms $2,000 but suspended his two-year sentence. Outside the courtroom Helms declared that he would wear his conviction "like a badge of honor." Helms's allies inside and outside the CIA quickly raised the money to cover his fine.
In 1975, Helms drew fire from a Senate special investigative committee led by Senator Frank Church of Idaho to probe allegations of CIA intelligence abuses. This committee uncovered Helms's perjury about the Allende actions. Among other charges, the committee also accused Helms of "cooking" or politicizing intelligence to suit the policy needs of the Nixon administration, an accusation that Helms denied. With respect to the earlier administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, the Church Committee gave Helms higher marks for warning President Johnson that the war in Vietnam was going badly and was likely to fail-warnings that the president ignored, however.
When he returned to Washington, D.C., from Iran in 1976, Helms started a private consulting practice that specialized in the Middle East. It was called the Safeer Company, adopting the Farsi word for "ambassador." He also wrote a book-length memoir. Helms died in Washington, D.C., succumbing to multiple myeloma at the age of eighty-nine.
Helms is widely regarded as one of the most memorable of the people to hold the office of DCI since its creation in 1947. He is often thought of by fellow intelligence officers as the "professional's professional," having been the first career intelligence officer to make his way to the top of the intelligence establishment. Helms was a strong proponent of espionage, but during his time as DCI he remained skeptical about the likely success of large-scale covert actions meant to manipulate political and economic events abroad. He felt that the outcome of large clandestine operations, like the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, was difficult to predict and could lead to unintended consequences. Although Helms's relationships with presidents Johnson and Nixon (along with Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger) were shaky and often strained, he was viewed by his peers in the intelligence community as an astute manager of espionage who was loyal to the CIA. Among intelligence officers, he remains one of the most popular figures in the history of American espionage.
(Source: American National Biography Online)
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E. Howard Hunt(1918 - 2007)
E. Howard Hunt was a CIA agent and PR consultant before he teamed up with G. Gordon Liddy to organize the Watergate break-in.
Synopsis
As a CIA agent, E. Howard Hunt was involved in the Bay of Pigs fiasco of 1961. In 1970, Hunt joined the Nixon administration as a PR consultant and, along with G. Gordon Liddy, plotted a break-in of the Watergate Hotel to gain information for Nixon's re-election campaign. Both men were convicted and served time. Throughout his career, Hunt also wrote spy novels and memoirs like American Spy.
Early Life
E. Howard Hunt was born Everette Howard Hunt Jr. on October 9, 1918, in Hamburg, New York. A former CIA agent, E. Howard Hunt is best known for his involvement in the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. A graduate of Brown University, Hunt served in the U.S. Naval Reserves in the early 1940s before joining the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943. Also around this time, he worked on a documentary film for TIME magazine and served as a war correspondent for LIFE magazine. Skilled with words, Hunt won a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship in 1946 and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood for a time.
CIA Operative
It is believed that Hunt began working for the CIA around 1949, which was a fairly new organization then. Over the years, he worked on a number of operations around the world, including the failed attempt to unseat Cuban dictator Fidel Castro known as the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 during the Kennedy administration. Outside of his duties as a CIA operative, Hunt found time to write a number of thrillers and spy novels, including The Violent Ones (1950), Return from Vorkuta (1965) and Diabolus (1968).
Watergate
After retiring from the CIA in 1970, Hunt worked at public relations firm in Washington, D.C., for a time before becoming a part-time consultant at the White House in 1971. Serving the administration of President Richard Nixon, he was known as a "plumber," or a person who helps fix information "leaks." Hunt was involved to stopping the leaks associated with the Pentagon Papers incident, in which a defense analyst gave The New York Times a confidential report on Vietnam. For his next project, Hunt worked with G. Gordon Liddy to gain information on Nixon’s political opposition for his re-election campaign. The two devised a plot to spy on the National Democratic Committee by breaking into its headquarters in the Watergate building complex in Washington, D.C. Hunt recruited five men for the job-four of whom he had known from the Bay of Pigs incident. The secret mission proved not to be so secret when the burglars were caught in the NDC offices on June 17, 1972.
Although the White House denied any involvement in the crime, the plot began to unravel as Hunt's telephone number was found in the address books of some of the burglars. Three months after the burglars' arrest, he and Liddy were indicted charges related to the crime. Hunt also suffered a personal tragedy that December. His wife, Dorothy, died in a plane crash. The crash was investigated and eventually ruled an accident.
Punishment
In January 1973, Hunt pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy, burglary and eavesdropping. That same year, his memoir, Give Us This Day, was released and provided an inside look at his career with the CIA. Hunt continued sharing spy stories with 1974's Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent.
Originally sentenced to 35 years in prison, Hunt's sentence was later reduced to two and a half to eight years in prison and he was fined $10,000. He served more than 32 months in prison before being paroled in 1977. All the while, Hunt continued with his writing career. He published such novels as The Gaza Intercept (1981), Cozumel (1986), Ixtapa (1994), Dragon Teeth (1997) and Sonora (2002).
E. Howard Hunt died on January 23, 2007, in Miami, Florida. His final book, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, was released after his death. He was survived by his four children from his first marriage and two children from his second marriage to Laura E. Martin.
(Source: Biography)
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
In the 1960 campaign, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President as John F. Kennedy's running mate. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th United States President, with a vision to build "A Great Society" for the American people.
"A Great Society" for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere was the vision of Lyndon B. Johnson. In his first years of office he obtained passage of one of the most extensive legislative programs in the Nation's history. Maintaining collective security, he carried on the rapidly growing struggle to restrain Communist encroachment in Viet Nam.
Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas, not far from Johnson City, which his family had helped settle. He felt the pinch of rural poverty as he grew up, working his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos); he learned compassion for the poverty of others when he taught students of Mexican descent.
In 1937 he campaigned successfully for the House of Representatives on a New Deal platform, effectively aided by his wife, the former Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor, whom he had married in 1934.
During World War II he served briefly in the Navy as a lieutenant commander, winning a Silver Star in the South Pacific. After six terms in the House, Johnson was elected to the Senate in 1948. In 1953, he became the youngest Minority Leader in Senate history, and the following year, when the Democrats won control, Majority Leader. With rare skill he obtained passage of a number of key Eisenhower measures.
In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice President. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President.
First he obtained enactment of the measures President Kennedy had been urging at the time of his death--a new civil rights bill and a tax cut. Next he urged the Nation "to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor." In 1964, Johnson won the Presidency with 61 percent of the vote and had the widest popular margin in American history--more than 15,000,000 votes.
The Great Society program became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Congress, at times augmenting or amending, rapidly enacted Johnson's recommendations. Millions of elderly people found succor through the 1965 Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act.
Under Johnson, the country made spectacular explorations of space in a program he had championed since its start. When three astronauts successfully orbited the moon in December 1968, Johnson congratulated them: "You've taken ... all of us, all over the world, into a new era. . . . "
Nevertheless, two overriding crises had been gaining momentum since 1965. Despite the beginning of new antipoverty and anti-discrimination programs, unrest and rioting in black ghettos troubled the Nation. President Johnson steadily exerted his influence against segregation and on behalf of law and order, but there was no early solution.
The other crisis arose from Viet Nam. Despite Johnson's efforts to end Communist aggression and achieve a settlement, fighting continued. Controversy over the war had become acute by the end of March 1968, when he limited the bombing of North Viet Nam in order to initiate negotiations. At the same time, he startled the world by withdrawing as a candidate for re-election so that he might devote his full efforts, unimpeded by politics, to the quest for peace.
When he left office, peace talks were under way; he did not live to see them successful, but died suddenly of a heart attack at his Texas ranch on January 22, 1973.
(Source: The White House)
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G. Gordon Liddy
One of the leading European newspapers, Le Matin, of Paris, describes G. Gordon Liddy as "a man of fantastic intelligence and complexity." Educated privately by Benedictines and Jesuits, G. Gordon Liddy earned a B.S. degree from Fordham University and an Ll.D. from the Fordham Law School, graduating as an editor of The Fordham Law Review. After two years service as an Army artillery officer during the Korean War, G. Gordon Liddy entered the FBI as a Special Agent, rapidly earned multiple commendations from the late J. Edgar Hoover and, at age 29, became the youngest Bureau Supervisor at FBI national headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he served during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.
G. Gordon Liddy resigned from the FBI in 1962 to practice international law in Manhattan. Thereafter he served as a prosecutor, ran unsuccessfully for Congress from the 28th district of New York, then in 1968, ran the presidential campaign of Richard Nixon in that district. In the Nixon administration, Mr. Liddy served first as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury; was then appointed Enforcement Legislative Counsel, authored the Explosives Control Act and, in 1971 was sent to the White House as Staff Assistant to the President of the United States. At the White House, G. Gordon Liddy had oversight responsibility for Treasury policy on firearms and explosives and authored the memorandum that led to the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Subsequently he was assigned additional special duties as a member of the top secret White House Special Investigations Group. G. Gordon Liddy resigned his White House post to accept the positions of General Counsel of the 1972 Republican presidential campaign and the campaign finance committee, with additional duties as campaign political intelligence director. The rest is history.
For his role in Watergate, and for refusing steadfastly to implicate others, Liddy was sentenced to over twenty years in prison. He served nearly five years, many in maximum security, including 106 days of solitary confinement, before his release by President Carter "in the interests of justice". Rated by the Treasury Department as a pistol expert whose draw and hit was timed electronically by the FBI at 60/100 of a second, Liddy was once specially assigned by the Secret Service to protect President Eisenhower. He is an FAA licensed pilot and a life member of the Special Operations Association.
He has authored five New York Times Best Sellers as well as numerous magazine articles. His latest book, FIGHT BACK Tackling Terrorism Liddy Style, was on the New York Times bestsellers list within two weeks.
G. Gordon Liddy has lectured extensively, from Berkley to The United States Military Academy at Westpoint and The Oxford Union. He is an actor in motion pictures and television including co-starring roles in Miami Vice, Airwolf, MacGyver, Feds, Perry Mason and 18 Wheels of Justice. Liddy is also a frequent guest on Fox Television's Hannity & Colmes, and other top rated news shows on MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC. In 1992, G. Gordon Liddy enrolled with the Israeli Defense Force Paratroop School at Tel Nov, qualified for, and was awarded his wings. In October 2001, he re-qualified, and has made three additional jumps with the elite IDF parachute regiment. In January 2003 he was granted the honor of leading the stick out of the aircraft.
Having visited Israel five times, as well as Egypt, Turkey, Kuwait, and Iraq in March 2006, Liddy hit the ground with Pentagon Officials in Iraq and Kuwait spending two weeks on the battle lines with U.S. Military, he has much to convey about the war in Iraq. In August 2003, July 2005, and August 2006, he rode his Harley Davidson motorcycle the full 1,846 miles from Washington, D.C., to Sturgis, South Dakota for the annual motorcycle festival. He's also ridden with the Los Angeles chapter of Hell's Angels and is a member of the Honor Legion of the Police Department of the City of New York. In November 2005, after just having celebrated his 75th birthday, The G-Man was selected to compete in the highest rated reality TV show, NBC's Celebrity Fear Factor in which, competing against people half his age, he won two out of three events and a pair of custom built motorcycle choppers. The show aired, September 2006.
G. Gordon Liddy's lecture audiences have ranged from an association of independent over the road truck drivers to the Oxford Union and, according to The Wall Street Journal; he is "one of the most sought after speakers in the nation." G. Gordon Liddy is a 32° Scottish Rite Mason.
Today, G. Gordon Liddy is the host of The G. Gordon Liddy Show. His nationally syndicated radio program celebrated 15 years in February 2007. The show is broadcast live from Washington, D.C. via the Radio America Network and is heard on Sirius and XM satellite radio and around the world via internet streaming.
(Source: AEI Speakers Bureau)
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Copying here from a different thread on Bentley's advice. Please feel free to delete the other post if needed. Thanks!Here are the photos that I took today at the Nixon Library and Museum. I hope you all enjoy them. It is in Yorba Linda, CA. It is the birthplace of Nixon.
Pictures of Museum, Childhood home and Marine One
Scans of the brochure
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Weiner repeatedly refers to NSC Histories among other documents. Has anyone found an online source for these materials or are they only available in the National Archives?
Michael wrote: "Weiner repeatedly refers to NSC Histories among other documents. Has anyone found an online source for these materials or are they only available in the National Archives?"Michael, check the Bibliography link:
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I have it broken out by chapters. If I could find it online, it's there. It's quite extensive.
Wikipedia has some great background/a timeline on Russia-US relations. Peruse when you have time:Soviet Union/US Relations:
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Here is a short snippet of Henry Kissinger's "Peace at Hand" address to the nation in 1972:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bTJj...
YouTube Video's of the Frost/Nixon interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yf9v...
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Nixon's "Checkers" speech from 1952, noted in Chapter 22 on pages 255-256.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqjwB...
Here is some information about the classification of information today:Executive Order 13526- Classified National Security Information
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