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Dean and
death and grave of
death of Hoover and
declassified documents on
Deep Throat known to
DEFCON alert and
diary of
Diem assassination and
domestic policy and
domestic spying and
drinking and
early life and rise of
Ehrlichman and
elections of 1960
elections of 1968
elections of 1972
Ellsberg and
FBI and
FBI and, Gray nomination
final year of presidency
Ford pardon and
foreign policy and
Frost interviews of
Greek junta and
Haig and
Haldeman and
health problems of
Helms on
heroin task force and
Hiss and
Ho Chi Minh and
Hoover and
Hughes and
Huston Plan and
“I am not a crook” statement
impeachment and
inaugurals and
India-Pakistan war and
inner circle of
insomnia and
IRS and
Italy and
ITT and
Jaworski as special prosecutor and
JFK and
Joint Chiefs’ spying and
Kent State and
Key Biscayne and
King on
Kissinger and
Kleindienst and
Laird and
Laos and
LBJ and
leaks and
legacy of
marriage of
memoirs of
mental state of
midterm elections of 1970 and
military records falsified by
Mitchell and
mother and
My Lai and
national security and
national security team and
Nixon Doctrine and
North Korea and
North Vietnam bombing and
NSA watch list and
NSC and
nuclear arms and
O’Brien and
Pakistan and
personality and paranoia of
Plumbers and
pomp and
postpresidency and
POWs and
Presidential Library
Presley and
press and
press conferences and
Rebozo and
resignation of
Richardson and
Rogers and
Rumsfeld and
SALT talks and
San Clemente and
Saxbe appointed attorney general by
secret statutes and
Senate Foreign Relations Committee and
Senate Watergate hearings and
Six Crises and
Soviets and
Soviet summits and
Supreme Court appointments and
Supreme Court decision on tapes and
Taiwan and
Thai generals and
Thurgood Marshall and
trip to Asia and Eastern Europe
trip to Belgium
trip to China
trip to Europe
trip to France
trip to Indonesia
trip to Iran
trip to Ireland
trip to Middle East
trip to Pakistan
trip to Spain
vice presidency of
Vietnam and
Vietnam and, LBJ sabotaged by
Vietnam funding and
Vietnamization and
Vietnam Peace Accords of 1973 and
Vietnam peace talks and
Walters memcons and
War Powers Resolution and
warrantless wiretapping and
Watergate break-in and arrests and
Watergate investigation and
as Watergate unindicted coconspirator
Watergate white paper and
White House Correspondents’ Dinner and
White House tapes and
White House tapes subpoena fight
Yom Kippur War and
Nixon, Thelma Ryan “Pat” (wife)
Nixon, Tricia (daughter)
North Atlantic Council
North Korea
North Vietnam
bombing of
Cambodia and
China and
Laos and
LBJ bombing halt and
Paris Peace Accords
peace talks and
nuclear weapons
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Kissinger)
Oakley, Robert
Obama, Barack
O’Brien, Lawrence
Odle, Robert C., Jr.
oil embargo
Olympics (Munich, 1972)
Operation Sandwedge
Pakistan
war vs. India
Palestinians
Pappas, Thomas
Parkinson, Kenneth
Pelletier, Joan
Pentagon Papers
Petersen, Henry
Philippines
Phillips, David Atlee
Plumbers
Podgorny, Nikolai V.
Powell, Lewis
POWs
Pratt, Mark
Presley, Elvis
Price, Ray
Proxmire, William
Rabin, Yitzhak
Radford, Charles
RAND Corporation
Ransom, David M.
Reagan, Ronald
Rebozo, C. G. “Bebe”
Rehnquist, William
Republican National Committee
Republican National Convention
of 1952
of 1964
of 1972
Republican Party
Richardson, Elliot
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rodman, Peter
Rogers, Kenneth
Rogers, William
Nixon’s relationship with
resignation of
Romania
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rose, Horace Chapman “Chappie”
Rostow, Walt W.
Ruckelshaus, William
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rush, Kenneth
Rushing, Charles E.
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Richard
Sadat, Anwar
SALT talks
Sanchez, Manolo
Sanders, Don
Saturday Night Massacre
Saudi Arabia
Saunders, Hal
Sawyer, Diane
Saxbe, William B.
Scalia, Antonin
Schatzkin, Lynn
Schlesinger, James
Schmidt, Helmut
Schneider, René
Scott, Hugh
Scott, Win
Scowcroft, Brent
Secret Service
Sedov, Boris
September 11, 2001, attacks
Sequoia (presidential yacht)
Shaffer, Charles N., Jr.
Shanghai communiqué
Sheehan, Neil
Shelton, Turner B.
Shultz, George P.
Sinatra, Frank
Sirica, John
McCord letter to
White House tapes and
Six Crises (Nixon)
Smirnov, Leonid V.
Smith, Gerald
Smith, Michael B.
Smith, Sandy
Snowden, Edward
Somoza, Anastasio
Sonnenfeldt, Helmut
South Vietnam. See also Vietnam War
CIA and
Diem coup and
elections in
fall of
Laos and
LBJ and
<
br /> Nixon meets leaders of
peace blocked by
South Vietnamese Army (ARVN)
Souvanna Phouma
Soviet Union
Arab-Israeli conflict and
China and
DEFCON and
dissolved
India and
madman tactic and
Nixon on
nuclear arms and
SALT and
summit of 1972 (Moscow)
summit of 1973 (U.S.)
summit of 1974 (Moscow)
Vietnam and
Yom Kippur War and
Spain
Spínola, António de
Stalin, Joseph
Stans, Maurice
State Department
St. Clair, James D.
Stearman, William Lloyd
Stein, John
Stennis, John
Stone, W. Clement
Strachan, Gordon
Sturgis, Frank
Sudan
Suddarth, Roscoe S.
Suharto
Sullivan, William H.
Swank, Emory C.
Symington, Stuart
Syria
Taiwan
Talenti, Pier
Talmadge, Herman
Tasca, Henry
Tchepone attacks
terrorism
Thailand
Time
Toon, Malcolm
Toufanian, Hassan
Townhouse Operation
Tran Kim Phuong
Treasury Department
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
TIM WEINER 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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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
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* Terrorism started showing its modern masked face in 1970. Arab radicals seized international flights and held Americans hostage. An Iraqi planted a car bomb at New York’s Kennedy Airport; his target was the Israeli leader Golda Meir. American Zionists tried to kill Soviet diplomats in the United States. The Palestinian gang Black September murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Germany and assassinated the American ambassador in Sudan. Nixon set up the first presidential commission on terrorism in 1972. It met once; nothing came of it. Each crisis was addressed as it arose, without a policy or a strategy. The Weathermen killed no one but themselves, due to their incompetent bomb making and their persistent intake of psychedelic drugs.