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University of Washington history professor William Rorabaugh talked about the 1960 presidential election. He discussed the candidates, and how Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice…

Purdue University professor Kathryn Brownell explained how Richard Nixon’s media strategy changed from his 1960 presidential campaign loss, through his election in 1968 and during his…

A Time to Begin is a 1968 film created for Republican Richard Nixon’s campaign, showing the former Vice President visiting New Hampshire and Wisconsin and speaking with voters. Richard…

Professor Margaret O’Mara talked about the 1968 presidential election and the events that affected the outcome. She spoke about how the Vietnam War eroded political support for President…

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College professor Richard Faulkner taught a class on the Vietnam War, focusing on the Tet Offensive in 1968 though the U.S. withdrawal in the early 1970s. He…

Elizabeth Drew talked about a new edition of her book, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall. The book, originally published in 1975, covers the dissolution…

Nixon-era officials revisited the administration’s drug abuse initiatives in the early 1970s. They discussed treatment approaches, law enforcement strategies, and President Nixon’s famous…

Veterans of Richard Nixon’s White House gathered to talk about the president’s relationship with Congress. As he began his first term in 1969 he faced the opposition party in control of…

Henry Kissinger was secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford. American History TV was at the Organization of American Historians' annual meeting in Sacramento, California, where we…

John Farrell, Richard Nixon, Will Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower, and Sharon Weinberger, The Imagineers of War, talked about the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower. This…

In this portion of tapes recorded during his time in the White House, President Nixon discussed the Supreme Court’s decision in the 1971 New York Times Co. v. U.S. case with FBI Director J.…

In this portion of tapes recorded during his time in the White House, President Nixon told FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that he wanted federal law enforcers to target Daniel Ellsberg, the man…

In this portion of tapes recorded during his time in the White House, President Nixon discussed the publishing of the Pentagon Papers by the New York Times with some of his advisers.

Joseph Rodota provided a history of the Watergate complex, including the notorious scandal connected to its name, and shared stories of many of its notable residents.

Bruce Herschensohn, who served as Deputy Special Assistant to the President in the Nixon Administration, talked about his time in the White House, and major events including the Vietnam War…

Bill Minutaglio and Steven Davis recounted the Nixon administration’s efforts to apprehend Timothy Leary after his escape from prison in 1970.

A group of authors and journalists who covered the Watergate scandal gathered to discuss the political scandal of the 1970s that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. They also draw…

This program focused on what motivated President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev during the period known as Détente. It was part of a conference convened by the University of…

John Farrell talked about his book Richard Nixon: The Life, in which he chronicles Mr. Nixon’s political career from his early days in Congress to his tenure and downfall as president.…

Former National Security Council member Sven Kraemer talked about President Richard Nixon’s Cold War détente strategy. Mr. Kraemer is the author of Inside the Cold War From Marx to Reagan:…