Letter from America: From Nixon to Carter (1969-1980)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Watergate investigators and Nixon
26 Oct 1973
Contributed by Lukas
Speculation, suspicion and compromise. Demands, resignations and black clouds over President Nixon's refusal to assist the Watergate investigators.
The inauguration of Gerald Ford as Vice President, 1973
19 Oct 1973
Contributed by Lukas
A lack of procedure for the events following the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, and the promotion of Gerald Ford from House Minority Leade...
Nixon's Watergate speech, 1973
25 Aug 1973
Contributed by Lukas
The speech that President Nixon had hoped would sink the Watergate scandal once and for all fails to hit its target, according to polling.
Watergate: Nixon's changing stories, 1973
26 May 1973
Contributed by Lukas
A question of clarity. A week of presidential explanation, in the guise of polysyllabic obfuscation, over the Watergate scandal.
Sam Ervin and Watergate
19 May 1973
Contributed by Lukas
Watergate - Nixon's admirers in the Kremlin, and how the tenacious lawyer Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina challenged Nixon.
Watergate reporting
12 May 1973
Contributed by Lukas
Trial by the press: is the tidal wave of Watergate reporting drowning the 'not guilty' pleas of all the president's men?
Watergate hearings 1973
05 May 1973
Contributed by Lukas
Can the Watergate hearings restore the faith of the people in a system of government that has taken so many beatings?
Roe v Wade
27 Jan 1973
Contributed by Lukas
Where next for Vietnam, as 18 years of savage fighting comes to an end? And the Supreme Court rules on abortion for all in Roe v Wade.
President Truman (1884–1972)
30 Dec 1972
Contributed by Lukas
President Truman's life, his Missouri farm childhood, his war service, and how his political skills and achievements may have been overlooked by his c...
Richard Nixon re-elected President, 1972
11 Nov 1972
Contributed by Lukas
Nixon's landslide victory, how close he came to winning in 1960, and why middle class Americans have been moving to the right as they have fled the ci...
American reactions to Bloody Sunday, 1972
05 Feb 1972
Contributed by Lukas
American reaction to claims of British brutality in Northern Ireland, and an early glimpse into the Kennedy clan.
Taiwan and China
30 Oct 1971
Contributed by Lukas
Taiwan is out, and China in – why the change of seats in the UN General Assembly is much more than musical chairs.
Art Buchwald
18 Sep 1971
Contributed by Lukas
The wit and wisdom of Art Buchwald, political satirist and columnist for the Washington Post and a modern day Jonathan Swift.
Louis Armstrong
10 Jul 1971
Contributed by Lukas
A tribute to trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), his life and music, and how attitudes to jazz have changed since Cooke's teenage years in Blackpoo...
Veteran's Day 1970
14 Nov 1970
Contributed by Lukas
Dishonouring the dead: the sad scenes at New York's Hunter College, when acts of Veteran's Day remembrance turned into political stances, and forgot t...
The atom bomb warning of 1939
08 Aug 1970
Contributed by Lukas
How Roosevelt was warned of Germany's nuclear threat by two Hungarian refugees from Long Island in 1939, thanks to a boy who liked fishing.
The My Lai massacre revealed, 1969
30 Nov 1969
Contributed by Lukas
The American reaction to hearing of the horror of the Son My massacre (My Lai) in Vietnam, and parallels with Hiroshima and the Allied devastation of ...