Required Reading: America
Divided 296-300; Shulman, Seventies, 23-52
On-line: Outline: Nixon’s war and Nixon’s Doctrine (In all of these readings, be sure to focus
on arguments and evidence to support those arguments). In my outlines, the
argument is usually in the heading, and the evidence is usually underneath the
heading.
As mentioned in class, we
will be revisiting the Nixon document that we didn’t get to on Thursday, so be
sure to review that. What is Nixon arguing in that speech? What appeals is he
making? We will also review the earlier chapter on conservative revival, so
please review your notes for that chapter for the class. What is the key
argument of that chapter? Finally, what
do you think about the material on troop deployment? We will discuss that along
with the outline on Nixon’s war above…
Recommended documents for Watergate and Nixon
Choice excerpts from the Nixon tapes http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/nixon17.htm
n Chronology
of Kent State Shootings http://www.library.kent.edu/exhibits/4may95/exhibit/chronology/index.html
n Nixon
audio archives http://www.webcorp.com/sounds/nixon.htm
n Pentagon
Papers Case http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/nixon.html
n Watergate “Smoking Gun” Conversation
n Excerpts from the Nixon tapes in respect to the Pentagon Papers: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/nixon.html
n Washington
Post site on Watergate http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/splash1a.htm (includes chronology, interviews, etc)
n Conversation
with Daniel Ellsberg from Presidential Decisions and public dissent series http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Ellsberg/ellsberg98-0.html
n Hear Spiro Agnew denounce the student movement and yippies in 1972 http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html (follow index to Agnew) There are other speeches here by other relevant figures during this time.
n http://webcorp.com/video/nixon/
n Donald
Rumsfeld (current Secy of Defense) in the Nixon White House tapes http://www.citizens-at-large.com/0101/rumsfeld.html
n Pentagon Papers and the Supreme Court http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/briefs.html
n COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story September 1, 2001. Presented to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa http://www.derechos.net/paulwolf/cointelpro/coinwcar3.htm
n How COINTELPRO worked in the 1960s http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Third_World_US/COINTELPRO60s_WAH.html
n COINTELPRO in the 1970s http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Third_World_US/COINTELPRO70s_WAH.html
n COINTELPRO in the 1980s http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Third_World_US/COINTELPRO80s_WAH.html
n COINTELPRO in the 1990s http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Third_World_US/COINTELPRO90s_WAH.html
§ CIA
acknowledgement (limited) of what it did in Chile and ties to repressive
Pinochet regime
§ (1 page
plus links to 3 documents)
§ Chilean coup - brief
summary
§ Guardian
story on intense corporate influence on Chilean policy –how
Pepsi corporate officials helped to ensure the CIA coup in Chile that brought a
dictator to power
§ For more
on what we now know overthrow the democratically
elected government of Allende in Chile http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm
§ Documents that
implicate the CIA in the killing of American citizen Charles Horman Horman’s story is featured in the 1980s film,
“Missing” (available for rental in many video stores); in addition, see these
documents released in June 2000—Documents from
2000
§ Kissinger
and East Timor (Indonesian Slaughter and U.S. responsibility) –article summarizing
§ Kissinger &
Indonesia/East Timor-actual documents from George Washington University’s
National Security Archive, showing US complicity in the murderous Indonesian
invasion of East Timor (see summary of document 4 and p. 9-12 of document 4
especially) – Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger give the green light for the
slaughter, concerned only that U.S. not be implicated. (recall U.S. had
installed Suharto earlier, overthrowing Sukarno government in 1950s)
§ The
case for Kissinger as a War Criminal
§ Kissinger,
Pinochet and history –
Norman Solomon on the media
and lack of historical memory on Kissinger
Kissinger’s
attempts to cover up what he really did