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Authors: Tim Weiner

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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon (56 page)

Truman, Harry S.

U-2 spy planes

Ulasewicz, Tony

Unger, Leonard

United Nations

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

U.S. Congress

Camp David tapes and

Ford as vice president and

Nixon elected to

Nixon’s contempt for

war powers and

Watergate and

U.S. Constitution

executive privilege and

impeachment and

special prosecutor and

war powers

U.S. House of Representatives

Judiciary Committee

Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

U.S. Navy

U.S. Senate

Armed Services Committee

Foreign Relations Committee

impeachment and

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Committee)

U.S. Senate Special Select Committee on Emergency Powers and War Powers

U.S. Supreme Court

Nixon’s nominations to

Pentagon Papers and

warrantless wiretaps and

White House tapes and

United States v. Agnew

United States v. Mitchell

United States v. Nixon

Valenzuela, Camilo

Veliotes, Nicholas A.

Verification Panel

Vesco, Robert

Viaux, Roberto

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)

Vietnam War.
See also
antiwar protests, Cambodia; Laos; North Vietnam; South Vietnam

casualties

China and

Christmas Bombing and

CIA and

Congress and

cost of

Diem and

early efforts to end

fall of Saigon and

heroin trade and

Ho Chi Minh and

Ho Chi Minh Trail and

Joint Chiefs and

LBJ and

My Lai massacre and

Nixon addresses on

NSC and

Paris Peace Accords

Paris peace talks

Pentagon Papers and

Philippines and

POWs and

public opinion and

secret Cambodia bombing and

secret spending on

Soviets and

Thai junta and

Vietnamization and

war powers and

Vogt, John

Wallace, George C.

Walsh, Jack

Walters, Vernon

War Powers Act (1973)

warrantless wiretapping

Warren, Earl

Washington, George

Washington March of 1969

Washington Post

Washington Special Actions Group

Washington Star

Watergate break-in (June 17, 1972).
See also
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities; White House tapes;
and specific individuals

defendants sentenced

hush money and

indictments and

McCord letter to Sirica on

planned and approved

trials

Watergate federal grand jury

Nixon’s inner circle indicted by

Watergate special prosecutor

articles of impeachment and

Cox appointed

Cox fired

Jaworski appointed

Watts, William

Wayne, John

Weather Underground

Welander, Robert

Weyand, Frederick C.

Wheeler, Earle

White, Alfred Joseph

White, Bob

White, Theodore

White House Correspondents’ Dinner

White House tapes

June 20, 1972 (eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap)

June 23, 1972 (“smoking gun”)

March 21, 1973 (“cancer on presidency”)

April 15, 1973

Blue Book of expurgated

final release of

first installed

impeachment and

recording ended

Senate Watergate Hearings discover

subpoena of

Supreme Court and

Wicker, Tom

Will, George

Wilson, Woodrow

Wong, Al

Woods, Rose Mary

Woodward, Bob

World War I

World War II

World War III, threat of

Wright, Charles Alan

Yeagley, J. Walter

Yeats, William B.

Ye Jianying

Yom Kippur War

Young, David R.

Zablocki, Clement

Zhou En-lai

Ziegler, Ron

 

About the Auhor

T
IM
W
EINER
is the author of five books.
Legacy of Ashes,
his history of the CIA, won the National Book Award. His journalism on secret government programs received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. As a correspondent for
The New York Times,
he covered war and terrorism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and other nations. He directs the Carey Institute’s nonfiction residency program in upstate New York and teaches as an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton. You can sign up for email updates
here
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Also by
Tim Weiner

Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Enemies: A History of the FBI

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Author’s Note

CHAPTER ONE

“A great, bad man”

CHAPTER TWO

“This is treason”

CHAPTER THREE

“He was surrounded by enemies”

CHAPTER FOUR

“He will let them know who is boss around here”

CHAPTER FIVE

“The center cannot hold”

CHAPTER SIX

“Madman”

CHAPTER SEVEN

“Don’t strike a king unless you intend to kill him”

CHAPTER EIGHT

“A pitiful, helpless giant”

CHAPTER NINE

“An unmitigated disaster”

CHAPTER TEN

“Only we have the power”

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“We’re not going to lose this war”

CHAPTER TWELVE

“It’s a conspiracy”

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“I can see the whole thing unravel”

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“It is illegal, but…”

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“Night and Fog”

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“From one extreme to another”

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

“This is the supreme test”

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

“Palace intrigue”

CHAPTER NINETEEN

“We have produced a horrible tragedy”

CHAPTER TWENTY

“A hell of a way to end the goddamn war”

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

“You could get a million dollars”

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

“Vietnam had found its successor”

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

“The President of the United States can
never
admit that”

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

“The same enemies”

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

United States v. Richard Milhous Nixon

Epilogue

Judgments

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Also by Tim Weiner

Copyright

 

ONE MAN AGAINST THE WORLD Copyright © 2015 by Tim Weiner. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Frontispiece photograph courtesy of the Nixon Library

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Weiner, Tim.

    One man against the world: the tragedy of Richard Nixon / Tim Weiner. — First edition.

            pages cm

    ISBN 978-1-62779-083-3 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-62779-084-0 (e-book)

1.  Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913–1994.   2.  Presidents—United States—Biography.   3.  United States—Politics and government—1969–1974.   I.  Title.

    E856.W425 2015

    973.924092—dc23

    [B]                                    2015012381

e-ISBN 978-1-62779-084-0

First Edition: July 2015

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