Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] always was an American project. It was Washington that drove European integration in the late 1940s, and funded it covertly under the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.’ And for the second time Evans-Pritchard failed to mention – perhaps he is simply unaware of it – that this has been known on the […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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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 […]