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24%OFFRay Locker - Nixon's Gamble - 9781493009312 - V9781493009312
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Nixon's Gamble

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Description for Nixon's Gamble Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JPZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 31.
After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that “government will listen. ... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in.” But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government by signing National Security Decision Memorandum 2, a document that made sweeping changes to the national security power structure. Nixon’s signature erased the influence that the departments of State and Defense, as well as the CIA, had over Vietnam and the course of the Cold War. The new structure put Nixon at the center, surrounded by loyal ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9781493009312
SKU
V9781493009312
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About Ray Locker
Ray Locker is the Washington enterprise editor for USA Today, where he supervises investigative reporting in the Washington bureau, as well as the White House, military and money in politics reporters. His work as a reporter and editor has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes. He covered the final years of George Wallace’s political career at the Montgomery Advertiser in Alabama; spent 13 ... Read more

Reviews for Nixon's Gamble
"The story we only thought we knew. Ray Locker gives us back our lost perspective on Richard Nixon and the governance we inherited from his tragedy. This courageous, graceful book is a major achievement and lasting public service.”
Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician “Richard Nixon accomplished a great deal
opening up China, arms control ... Read more

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