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The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought
about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political
shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as Ken Hughes reveals
in his powerful new book, in all the thousands of hours of
declassified White House tapes, the president orders a single
break-in--and it is not at the Watergate complex. Hughes's
examination of this earlier break-in, plans for which the White
House ultimately scrapped, provides a shocking new perspective on a
long history of illegal activity that prolonged the Vietnam War and
was only partly exposed by the Watergate scandal.
As a key player in the University of Virginia's Miller Center
Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a
decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of
transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses. Hughes's
unparalleled investigation has allowed him to unearth a pattern of
actions by Nixon going back long before 1972, to the final months
of the Johnson administration. Hughes identified a clear narrative
line that begins during the 1968 campaign, when Nixon, concerned
about the impact on his presidential bid of the Paris peace talks
with the Vietnamese, secretly undermined the negotiations through a
Republican fundraiser named Anna Chennault. Three years after the
election, in an atmosphere of paranoia brought on by the explosive
appearance of the Pentagon Papers, Nixon feared that his
treasonous--and politically damaging--manipulation of the Vietnam
talks would be exposed. Hughes shows how this fear led to the
creation of the Secret Investigations Unit, the "White House
Plumbers," and Nixon's initiation of illegal covert operations
guided by the Oval Office. Hughes's unrivaled command of the White
House tapes has allowed him to build an argument about Nixon that
goes far beyond what we think we know about Watergate.
"Chasing Shadows" is also available as a special e-book that
links to the massive collection of White House tapes published by
the Miller Center through Rotunda, the electronic imprint of the
University of Virginia Press. This unique edition allows the reader
to move seamlessly from the book to the recordings' expertly
rendered transcripts and to listen to audio files of the
remarkable--and occasionally shocking--conversations on which this
dark chapter in American history would ultimately turn.
In this provocative predecessor to Fatal Politics, presidential
tapes expert Ken Hughes provides a shocking new perspective on a
pattern of illegal actions by Richard Nixon only partly exposed by
the Watergate scandal. Going back to the final months of the
Johnson administration, Hughes reveals how Nixon secretly
undermined the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese. He goes on to
show how Nixon’s fears of his treasonous act's being exposed
eventually led to illegal covert actions guided by the Oval Office.
Through his unrivaled command of the secret White House tapes,
Hughes builds an argument about Nixon that goes far beyond what we
think we know about Watergate.
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A Bone To Pick
Ken Hughes
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Discovery Miles 4 680
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In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows (""the best account yet of
Nixon's devious interference with Lyndon Johnson's 1968 Vietnam War
negotiations""-- Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of
the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal
Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon's
reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president's darkest
secret.Forty years after the fall of Saigon, and drawing on more
than a decade spent studying Nixon's secretly recorded Oval Office
tapes--the most comprehensive, accurate, and illuminating record of
any presidency in history, much of it never transcribed until now--
Fatal Politics tells a story of political manipulation and betrayal
that will change how Americans remember Vietnam.
In his widely acclaimed Chasing Shadows ("the best account yet of
Nixon's devious interference with Lyndon Johnson's 1968 Vietnam War
negotiations" - Washington Post), Ken Hughes revealed the roots of
the covert activity that culminated in Watergate. In Fatal
Politics, Hughes turns to the final years of the war and Nixon's
reelection bid of 1972 to expose the president's darkest secret.
While publicly Nixon promised to keep American troops in Vietnam
only until the South Vietnamese could take their place, in private
Nixon agreed with his top military, diplomatic, and intelligence
advisers that Saigon could never survive without American boots on
the ground. Afraid that a pre-election fall of Saigon would scuttle
his chances of a second term, Nixon put his reelection above the
lives of American soldiers. Postponing the inevitable, he kept
America in the war into the fourth year of his presidency. At the
same time, Nixon negotiated a "decent interval" deal with the
Communists to put a face-saving year or two between his final
withdrawal and Saigon's collapse. If they waited that long, Nixon
secretly assured North Vietnam's chief sponsors in Moscow and
Beijing, the North could conquer the South without any fear that
the United States would intervene to save it. The humiliating
defeat that haunts Americans to this day was built into Nixon's
exit strategy. Worse, the myth that Nixon was winning the war
before Congress "tied his hands" has led policy makers to adapt
tactics from America's final years in Vietnam to the
twenty-first-century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, prolonging
both wars without winning either. Forty years after the fall of
Saigon, and drawing on more than a decade spent studying Nixon's
secretly recorded Oval Office tapes--the most comprehensive,
accurate, and illuminating record of any presidency in history,
much of it never transcribed until now-- Fatal Politics tells a
story of political manipulation and betrayal that will change how
Americans remember Vietnam. Fatal Politics is also available as a
special e-book that allows the reader to move seamlessly from the
book to transcripts and audio files of these historic
conversations.
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