"The Great Silent Majority"
In 1964 and 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called on Americans' “better angels” with speeches on the “Great Society” and immigration. His successor, Richard Nixon, asked for support in 1969 from the…
330 viewsIn 1964 and 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called on Americans' “better angels” with speeches on the “Great Society” and immigration. His successor, Richard Nixon, asked for support in 1969 from the…
330 viewsIrwin Gellman re-examined the 1960 presidential campaign, candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, and the close outcome of the election. The Richard Nixon Foundation hosted this event at…
633 viewsHofstra University U.S. history professor Carolyn Eisenberg talked about the Vietnam War during the Nixon/Kissinger years. This virtual event was hosted by the Wilson Center in Washington,…
346 viewsBob Bostock, a head speechwriter for George W. Bush administration EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, talked about the EPA’s origins and the environmental politics and policies of…
256 viewsAttorney Rufus Edmisten served as the deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee, which was chaired by North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin. In his book, That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Hell Politics,…
399 viewsPresident Nixon’s daughter, Tricia, married Edward Cox on June 12, 1971, in the first Rose Garden wedding. Their reception followed in the East Room. The White House Naval Photographic…
1,785 viewsIn his first address to the nation on Vietnam, President Richard Nixon proposed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam as long as the North Vietnamese removed their forces as…
1,349 viewsThe Federalist Society hosts a legal panel to discuss recently revealed documents used by prosecutors investigating Watergate and suspected wrongdoing by President NIxon and his administration.…
130 viewsFormer House Newt Speaker Gingrich (R-GA) paid tribute to former President Richard Nixon’s legacy at the Grand Strategy Summit, hosted by the Richard Nixon Foundation. He praised the former…
207 viewsVice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, traveled around the world in July of 1956 with stops in Hawaii, the Philippines, Taiwan, South Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, and Turkey. Highlights…
418 viewsGeoff Shepard was the youngest lawyer on President Nixon’s White House staff and is the author of The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President. He gave his account of the…
616 viewsDwight Chapin talked about his years with Richard Nixon. He worked on Mr. Nixon’s 1962 California campaign for governor and was with him in the White House until the Watergate scandal led…
373 viewsJohn Roy Price, a senior domestic policy adviser to President Nixon, gave a behind-the-scenes view of the 37th president’s domestic agenda -- which included guaranteed family income, a national…
436 viewsReporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein talked about their reporting for the Washington Post of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building on…
2,608 viewsAmerican University professor Joseph Campbell taught a class about the 1972 Watergate scandal and, what he calls, “the myth of heroic journalism.” He argued that the unraveling of the Watergate scandal…
1,459 viewsJohn Dean taught a class about Watergate and the discovery of the Nixon White House taping system. In June 1973, during testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee, Mr. Dean implicated…
2,556 viewsJill Wine-Banks, a former Watergate Assistant Special Prosecutor, and Geoff Shepard, a former deputy to the Nixon administration’s Special White House Counsel, talked about the 50th…
1,418 viewsDwight Chapin, an aide to former President Richard Nixon, took part in a Library of Congress panel discussion marking the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the Democratic National…
375 viewsViewers called in to give their opinions on Watergate’s legacy and trust in government.
1,257 viewsDan Balz talked about the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the impact it had on trust in government.
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