Category Nixon

American Scene 1971

The Great Radio Documentaries – “Who Am I? What Am I Doing? Where Am I Going?” – The American Scene: 1971 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

– Second Sunday – The American Scene – A Re- Assessment – 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since it’s a holiday weekend I just had to put up another documentary – 1971 seems apropos and what we were…

Nixon and Watergate

August 18, 1973 – Richard Nixon: “I Had No Prior Knowledge Of The Watergate Break-in”

– August 18, 1973 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 18, 1973 – The end of a hair-raising week worth of Watergate and the end of an excursion into Cambodia. On August…

Kent State - May 4, 1970

May 4, 1970 – Kent State – The Day America Killed Its Young

NBC Nightly News – May 4, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Many have said the events outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago started the shift in national opinion of the War in Vietnam. The events at Kent State…

January 28, 1973 - Paris peace signing

January 28, 1973 – Vietnam War – At Long Last, Ceasefire.

January 28, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 28, 1973 – The first official day of what was hoped to be Peace in Vietnam. The accords were signed in Paris and a ceasefire went…

Lyndon Johnson

January 12, 1969 – The Lyndon Johnson Years – LBJ And America In The 60’s – Past Daily Reference Room

– NBC Radio – Second Sunday: The Johnson Years – January 12, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January in 1969 signified the end of one era and the beginning of another. Lyndon Johnson, declining to run for a…

post-war and Polio

1955 – The Year Of Paranoia And Polio Shots – Past Daily’s Long Look Back: This Was 1955.

– CBS Radio – This Was 1955 – December 30, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Starting our look at year-ends gone by – here is what December 30th 1955 sounded like. Another set of notches in the Cold…

Ford - Nixon- Watergate

October 13, 1973 – A Bandaid For Watergate – Nixon Nominates Ford As VP.

– CBS Radio – The Washington Week – October 13, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Following the surprise announcement of President Nixon’s choice of Gerald Ford as his Number 2, all of Washington was going into overdrive with…

Nixon

August 17, 1973 – Nixon And The Flimsy Defense – The Slow Close Of Unpopular Excursions – Mae West Has A Birthday –

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July 22, 1973 – John Ehrlichman And The Poppycock Defense – A Weeks Worth Of Watergate

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July 13, 1974 – Breaking Out In Handcuffs – Nixon And Ehrlichman – Funeral For A Justice.

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