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Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate
by Ken Hughes
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Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 228 pages. As a key player in the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses. Hughes’s unparalleled investigation has allowed him to unearth a pattern of actions by Nixon going back long before 1972, to the final months of the Johnson administration. Hughes identified a clear narrative line that begins during the 1968 campaign, when Nixon, concerned about the impact on his presidential bid of the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese, secretly undermined the negotiations through a Republican fundraiser named Anna Chennault. Three years after the election, in an atmosphere of paranoia brought on by the explosive appearance of the Pentagon Papers, Nixon feared that his treasonous--and politically damaging--manipulation of the Vietnam talks would be exposed. Hughes shows how this fear led to the creation of the Secret Investigations Unit, the "White House Plumbers," and Nixon’s initiation of illegal covert operations guided by the Oval Office. Hughes’s unrivaled command of the White House tapes has allowed him to build an argument about Nixon that goes far beyond what we think we know about Watergate. Clean, unread copy. Record # 378771
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- Title
- Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate
- Author
- Ken Hughes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0813936632
- ISBN 13
- 9780813936635
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- University of Virginia Press
- Place of Publication
- Charlottesville
- Date Published
- 2014
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- History, American, , .
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