Watergate

A Brief History with Documents
Herausgeber: Kutler, Stanley I

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Produktbeschreibung

Watergate: A Brief History with Documents places the reader at the epicenter of one of the most significant political scandals in American history. Watergate represented a constitutional crisis on a scale not experienced since the Civil War, and the documents included in this volume capture the powerful emotions of this crucial moment, revealing the partisan politics that were at play and the extraordinary efforts of participants to bring the episode to a conclusion without causing permanent damage to the Constitution. The documents include excerpts from speeches, news conferences, congressional testimony, memos, and court rulings. Transcripts of tapes involving the White House staff, President Richard Nixon, members of Congress, the CIA, and FBI, and others are supplemented with transcripts of recently released tapes that reveal Nixon's innermost thoughts and reactions to events as they unfolded, including his awareness of the identity of the anonymous source known as "Deep Throat." This book serves as a powerful lesson in how American law and politics work and will resonate deeply with all readers, especially a new generation unfamiliar with the constitutional crisis that shook our nation and ultimately toppled a presidency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781405188487
• ISBN-10: 1405188480
• Artikelnr.: 28103001

Autorenporträt

Stanley I. Kutler is the E. Gordon Fox Professor Emeritus of American Institutions, History, and Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of several books on American history, including Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (1997), which resulted from his successful lawsuit against the National Archives and Nixon that forced the release of the long-suppressed Watergate tapes. He is also the author of The Wars of Watergate (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
The Cast of Characters viii
Introduction 1
Watergate: A Brief History 5
I Richard Nixon: At Work and in His Own Words 9
Acceptance Speech: 1968 9
The Personality of the President 10
The Man on Top 12
II The White House Horrors 19
Plumbers and Enemies 19
III The Watergate Break-In 31
The Burglary 31
The Role of the President's Campaign Committee 34
What Did the White House Know? 36
The White House Reacts: Private and Public Comment 37
IV Cover-Up! The White House Responds 41
The "Smoking Gun": Using the CIA 41
The Money Trail 47
"Stonewalling" and Perjury 59
V The Conspiracy Unravels: Judge Sirica, the Ellsberg Case, the Senate, and
the Special Prosecutor 75
Fatal White House Leaks 75
Sirica and McCord 76
Defections: Dean and Magruder 79
The Ellsberg Case 82
Nixon Responds 87
The President and His Men: Taped Conversations, February-April 1973 90
Haldeman and Ehrlichman Resign 109
The Special Prosecutor 111
The Special Prosecutor: Nixon's Reaction 114
The Special Prosecutor Takes Over 117
Senate Select Committee: John Dean 117
Senate Select Committee: Ehrlichman and Haldeman 122
Senate Select Committee: Revelation of the Tapes 131
VI The Tapes and the Saturday Night Massacre 135
The Battle for the Tapes 135
The President Retreats 145
October: The Cruelest Month 148
The Saturday Night Massacre 155
The President Succumbs 156
The New Special Prosecutor 158
The 18¿-Minute Tape Gap 163
VII The Final Agony: Impeachment, Resignation, Pardon 167
Nixon Embattled 167
The Impeachment Inquiry 176
U.S. v. Nixon 190
Resignation 198
The Pardon 203
Appendix 207
Watergate Special Prosecution Force Criminal Actions Final Report, 1975 207
Bibliographical Note 219

Rezensionen

"With his judicious selection of documents and his insightfuland clear narrative, Stanley Kutler, the dean of Watergatehistorians, provides the best brief treatment of the greatestpolitical scandal in American history."
Melvin Small, Wayne State University, author of ThePresidency of Richard Nixon

"Professor Kutler is the indispensable historian ofWatergate, and this is the indispensable sourcebook -- the keydocuments, placed in the deep context that only an expert canprovide."
Stanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University,editor-in-chief of The Oxford International Encyclopedia ofLegal History

"A fair-minded and accessible collection of key documents onthe most important political/ constitutional scandal of thetwentieth century, with succinct introductory essays by theacknowledged expert on the history of Watergate."
Jeffrey P. Kimball, Miami University, author ofNixon's Vietnam War

"Four decades after Nixon's election, Watergate remainsthe greatest constitutional crisis of our times, and any scholar,student, or citizen wishing to understand its enormity - andwhy it rocked the nation like no act of executive wrongdoing beforeor since - should peruse the documents in this indispensablevolume."
David Greenberg, Rutgers University, author of Nixon'sShadow: The History of an Image