Episode #397: Richard Nixon #10: Getting Started (1968-1969)

Episode #397: Richard Nixon #10: Getting Started (1968-1969)

Richard Nixon #10: Getting Started (1968-1969); Topics covered include: President-elect, Julie Nixon's wedding to David Eisenhower, selection of Nixon's White House staff and Cabinet, secret bombing of Cambodia and the leak of that story, initial outreach to the North Vietnamese re: peace talks (no progress), mass anti-war protests, and Nixon's appeal to the "Silent Majority" Key people include: Julie Nixon, David Eisenhower, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bob Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Rose Mary Woods, Bill Rogers, Mel Laird, John Mitchell, Anatoly Dobrynin, J. Edgar Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Thieu, and Le Duc Tho Correction at 9:31. Nixon's meeting with President Thieu in 1969 took place on Midway Island, not Guam. For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #396: Richard Nixon #9: All the Way Back (including the Anna Chennault Affair) (1963-1968)

Richard Nixon #9: All the Way Back (including the Anna Chennault Affair) (1963-1968); Topics covered include: Family vacation in Europe; move to New York and new law firm; assassination of John Kennedy; 1964 election; 1966 midterm elections; early views on China; 1968 election including Nixon's nomination, divineness with the Democrats, and Hubert Humphrey's nomination; the Chennault Affair (Johnson's attempts to end the Vietnam War before the U.S. election and the apparent attempts by the Nixon campaign to thwart those efforts), and the election of Richard Nixon as President of the United States Key people include: Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Spiro Agnew, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Martin Luther King, Nguyen Thieu, George Wallace, Anna Chennault, John Mitchell, Everett Dirksen, John Farrell, Bob Haldeman, and Tom Huston For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #395: Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962)

Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962); Topics covered include: 1960 president election, Republican National Convention, relationship between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, religion in the campaign, the first televised presidential debates, outcome of the election, Nixon returns to the law and writes his first memoirs, the Bay of Pigs, Nixon runs for Governor of California and loses, and Nixon's "final" press conference Key people include: Nelson Rockefeller, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Theodore White, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Robert Kennedy, Earl Adams, Alger Hiss, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Tom Dewey, Edmund Brown, and Herb Klein Correction at 12:51. After the 1960 election, the Nixons moved to Los Angeles (not San Clemente). For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #394: Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960)

Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960); Topics covered include: Inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, Nixon's primary roles as VP, trip to Asia/Middle East, 1954 midterm elections, Eisenhower's heart attack, election of 1956, Eisenhower's illnesses, trip to Latin America, facing Communist protestors in Peru and violent Communist protestors in Caracas, Venezuela, 1958 midterm election, and Nixon's trip to Moscow including the "Kitchen Debate" with Nikita Khrushchev Key people include: Dwight Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Murray Chotiner, John Foster Dulles, James Haggerty, Adlai Stevenson, Vernon Walters, John Sherwood, Nikita Khrushchev, and Harrison Salisbury For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #393: Richard Nixon #6: The Fund Crisis and Checkers (1952)

Richard Nixon #6: The Fund Crisis and Checkers (1952); Topics covered include: Newspapers break the story of the Nixon Fund, rhetoric against Nixon builds, no one listening to his explanations, Dwight Eisenhower suggests he go on TV to explain everything, Nixon agrees and delivers the "Checkers Speech", reaction to the speech, and victory for Eisenhower and Nixon in the 1952 election Key people include: Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Dana Smith, Pat Nixon, Milton Berle, Thomas Dewey, Mamie Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and Franklin Roosevelt For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/