One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon (56 page)
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Authors: Tim Weiner
Tags: #20th Century, #Best 2015 Nonfiction, #History, #Nonfiction, #Political, #Retail, #United States
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
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
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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
“He was surrounded by enemies”
“He will let them know who is boss around here”
“Don’t strike a king unless you intend to kill him”
“We’re not going to lose this war”
“I can see the whole thing unravel”
“We have produced a horrible tragedy”
“A hell of a way to end the goddamn war”
“You could get a million dollars”
“Vietnam had found its successor”
“The President of the United States can
never
admit that”
United States v. Richard Milhous Nixon
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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