voices.washingtonpost.com - 12/5/2008
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Henry Kissinger, left, and President Richard M. Nixon together after Kissinger's swearing in as 56th secretary of state, Sept. 22, 1973. (AP File)
Newly released memos and tape recordings from President Richard Nixon 's archives shed new light on Nixon's decision-making process in his ...
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 12/2/2008
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From NBC’s John Rutherford Richard Nixon 's reputation
takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives...
releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today's opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is ...
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New Nixon tapes: Ruthless, cynical, profane
josephcaoforcongress.com - 12/3/2008
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Joseph Cao Anh "Joseph" Quang Cao, 41, was
born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam,...
the fifth of eight children. He grew up in Vietnam during the most turbulent years of the Vietnamese Civil War and can vividly remember bombs exploding next to ...
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statesman.com - 12/5/2008
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Johnson thought meddling derailed planned Vietnam peace talks
on eve of 1968 election, according to final recordings...
made public. By Mark Lisheron AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, December 05, 2008 Just days before the pivotal 1968 presidential ...
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In tapes, LBJ accuses Nixon of treason
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LBJ Tapes Contain Unexploded Bombshells -- Lies, Treason and Perhaps Tens of Thousands of Lives Lost
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... and Nixon presidencies . LBJ was furious with Nixon, audiotapes of telephone conversations now show, over the likelihood that Nixon put politics first ahead of bringing the Vietnam war to a swift conclusion in 1968. As LBJ told Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen, ...
Plastered President
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... The beat goes on today. One would think the fifty year Nixonian hate fest would finally die a natural death. It’s as if the media and Hollywood have a secret tribal ritual whereby, in order to prove their manhood, the participants take on the pen, the camera and the shovel to dig into archival material, in a search for anything at all that hasn’t been uncovered that they can use to pound ...
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