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Author Locker, Ray, author.

Title Nixon's gamble : how a president's own secret government destroyed his administration / Ray Locker.

Publication Info. Guilford, Connecticut : LP, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY NIXON    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.924 LOCKER    Check Shelf
Description xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Taking the gamble. Origins ; Nixon takes charge (1969) ; First moves (1969) ; The secret wiretaps (1969) ; The military's harsh awakening (1969) ; Cooking intelligence with SALT (1969-1970) ; The Cambodia sideshow (1970) ; Nixon's war with the FBI (1970) ; Chile (1970) ; Laos and other crises (1970-1971) ; China (1971) ; Pentagon papers and FBI (1971) ; India-Pakistan (1971) ; Triumphs (1972) ; Watergate and early cover-up (1972) -- The unraveling. Early 1973 ; May 1973 ; The White House tapes ; Spy ring cover-up (1973-1974) ; Impeachment (1974) -- Epilogue. Ramifications.
Summary "After taking the Oath of Office, Richard Nixon announced that 'government will listen ... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in' and signed National Security Decision Memorandum 2. Using years of research and newly released NSC and administration documents, Ray Locker upends conventional wisdom about the Nixon presidency and shows how the creation of this secret, unprecedented, extra-constitutional government undermined U.S. policy and values; and sowed the seeds of his own destruction by creating a climate of secrecy, paranoia, and reprisal that still affects Washington today"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 -- Political and social views.
Official secrets -- United States -- Hisory -- 20th century.
Paranoia -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Revenge -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974.
United States -- Military policy.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9781493009312 hardcover
1493009311 hardcover
9781493019458 (electronic)
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