Nixon’s Vietnam War pp13
Nixon also experienced mood swings from what he and Haldeman referred
to as excessive “activism” to excessive “passivity” the latter incorporating
doldrums.
EISENHOWER SOLDERAND PRESIDENT BY Stephen e. Ambrose.. pp537 Fair well
speech 1960 "The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist..The Mlitary Industrial Complex should never be
allowed to endanger our Liberties or democratic processes, we should take
nothing for granted" pp529 It wasn't so much Nixon's defeat as it
was Nixon's sense of rejection" pp481 nor could Elsenhower regard
a Nixon secessions with optimism,Nixon had few personal friends, lack of
warmth, "Glib" pp526, not give Nixon support pp500, Nixon then
instructed his lieutenants to eliminate the offensive passage pp523
TESTAMENT OF HOPEBY
by James M. Washington, pp 634 "We have no honorable intentions
in Vietnam" Martin Luther King@ Riverside Church NYC April 4,1967
assassinated April 4,1968.
THE KING OF THE WORLD, David Renmick, winner of the pulitzer prize
pp287 "I an't got no guarrel with them Vietnam... I refuse to be inducted
into the armed forces of the United states. April 28, 1967 pp291 Ail was
sentenced to five years in prison and a 10,000 fine.
Nixon Volume 1 Stephen E. Ambrose In 1960 Hannah told a reporter "after
we moved (from Yorba Linda) oil was found under the lemon grove-oil that
would have make us millionaires, if we remained- but while we were there
the lemon grove only kept us poor." Richard Nixon repeated the we-might
- have been-millionaires story to his faare well address to his Cabinet
and the staff on his last morning as President but the fact oil was never
found on the Yorba Linda property.
Richard Milhous Nixon The rise of an American Politician Roger Morris
Letter there disparaging stories about Frank Nixon's failure in Yorba Linda.
Though oil was never discovered on the hill, both Hannah and Richard would
tell writers that a strike had come in after they left and that the family
might have been wealthy. Again when oil was found in fact on the Santa
Fe Springs Station site they had padded over, there were more tales of
Frank Nixon's improvidence and the family's narrowly missing riches.
"The Day the Presses Stopped" David Rudinstine
pp2 introduction It was the first time since the adoption of the U.S.
Constitution that the federal government:"Nixon" had sued the
press to stop it Pentagon papers were written by the Secretary of Defence
McNamara fall of 1966 or earlier McNamara conclude that U.S. policies had
failed and that it would continue to fail." "McNamara warned
to stabilize U.S. air offensive becaus incressing the air raid would have
little impact on the North Vietnamese and might lead to an open War with
China.
There was only 14 copies of The Pentagon Papers which were clasified
top secret sensitive,
"Water Gate" by: Fred Emery
Simon and Shoester
pp 72 They had set up without sanctioning of Congressional oversight
a Secret Police squad in the Plumbers.
They acquired a taste for corruption convening themselves the boss
"Nixon" wanted
pp39 Pentagon Papers were a study of the U.S. Vietnamese war. It was
commissioned by Robert McNamara when he was Secretary of Defence 1964
"Tonic Gulf" and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by: Edwin
E. Moise Chapel Hill
On the night of August 4, 1964, the U.S.Navy destroyer Maddax and Turner
Joy reported that they were under attack by North Vietnamese torpedo boats
in the Gulf of Tonic. Within hours, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the
first U.S. airstrikes against North Vietnam. and on August 7, Congress
passed the "Tonic Gulf Resolution,Gave President Johnson authority
to take all necessary measures" to prevent further aggression...since
decided that what had appeared on radar screen as torpedo boats had actually
been false images generated by whether conditions, birds, or American planes.
overhead, In a careful reconstruction of that night's events.. Edwin Moise
conclusively demonstrates that there was no North Vietnamese attack.
Moises argues that U.S. policy was inconsistent. President Johnson's
senior military and civilian advisors were drawing up plans to escalate
the was. but at the same time. Johnson was cutting the U.S. military budget
instead of expanding it.
The New York Tines Sunday Febuary 14,1999
Week in Review, pp4 Views
"A Portfolio From Around the Nation
Kevin Siers,
the Chariotte Observer, North Amercan Syndicate
