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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 aides and a new national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, who coordinated policy through the National Security Council under Nixon's command. Using years of research and revelations from newly released documents, USA Today reporter Ray Locker upends much of the conventional wisdom about the Nixon administration and its impact and shows how the creation of this secret, unprecedented, extra-constitutional government undermined U.S. policy and values. In doing so, Nixon sowed the seeds of his own destruction by creating a climate of secrecy, paranoia, and reprisal that still affects Washington today.
Contents
Table of contents
Part I
Prologue
Origins
Nixon takes charge (1969)
First moves (1969)
The secret wiretaps (1969)
The military's harsh awakening (1969)
Cooking intelligence with SALT (1969)
The Cambodia sideshow (1970)
Nixon's war with the FBI (1970)
Chile (1970)
Laos and other crises (1971)
China (1971)
Pentagon Papers and FBI (1971)
India-Pakistan (1971)
Triumphs (1972)
Watergate and early cover-up (1972)
Part II, The Unraveling
Early 1973
May 1973
The White House tapes
Spy ring cover-up (1973-1974)
Impeachment (1974)
Part III, Ramifications
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
