Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

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[PDF file]: […] on the list of his exposés is long. He reported on the Watergate scandal for the New York Times (had Fox News existed at the time would Nixon have got away with it?); he helped destroy the reputation of the international war criminal, Henry Kissinger; he revealed US involvement in the overthrow of the […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

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[PDF file]: […] to defend itself against a supposedly ‘hostile press’). It is worth noting that the Washington Post’s investigation of the Watergate scandal, culminating in the downfall of President Nixon, did not involve any use of the US FOI Act anyway. Ford’s attempt to use Watergate as an excuse to ‘smother’ FOI managed to achieve the […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

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[PDF file]: […] Eden to order a halt within 24 hours. In the US voting was taking place in the presidential elections at precisely that moment and, although the Eisenhower- Nixon ticket breezed home with 57% of the popular vote, the US had insisted on an immediate ceasefire. It’s never been really clear why the UK and […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] article didn’t credit Thomas Mahl, the man who originally researched the story.49 Virtually the last connection to the old isolationist wing of the Republican Party is former Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan. In one of his recent columns, about the Putinhacked-the-election story, he wrote the following:50 ‘The top officials of the CIA and Carl Gershman, […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] certainly possible that the cold war might have thawed a bit more had he lived — and remember that it was cold warriors and war criminals Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who reached out to Moscow and Beijing — there is no reason to believe that he was going to pull out of Vietnam, […]

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot

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[PDF file]: […] in some of his personal enmities and paranoid vendettas while he was about it, so much the better. Eisenhower himself stays out of the limelight but Richard Nixon can be observed hovering in the wings throughout this section, clearly taking notes. There is a delightful vignette in which a military intelligence officer was called […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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[…] certainly possible that the cold war might have thawed a bit more had he lived — and remember that it was cold warriors and war criminals Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who reached out to Moscow and Beijing — there is no reason to believe that he was going to pull out of Vietnam, […]

Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy by Kash Pramod Patel

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[PDF file]: […] The Plot against the King 3: The Return of the King was illustrated by James Scrawl and published by Brave Books in 2024. 1 2 causing Richard Nixon in particular many problems, but really going after Donald Trump without restraint because of the threat that he posed to its continued rule. The ‘corrupt bureaucrats’ […]

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[…] certainly possible that the cold war might have thawed a bit more had he lived — and remember that it was cold warriors and war criminals Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger or 72 73 Did they? I remember it as Wastemoreland but Google tells me there were other puns, including Waste-more-men. 74 27 who […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] The Plot against the King 3: The Return of the King was illustrated by James Scrawl and published by Brave Books in 2024. 1 2 causing Richard Nixon in particular many problems, but really going after Donald Trump without restraint because of the threat that he posed to its continued rule. The ‘corrupt bureaucrats’ […]

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