HIST 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Carl Bernstein, Slush Fund, Arms Control
Document Summary
Nov 28 - coming home to a changed world. Face-saving gesture gave cover to u. s. exit. 1973: nixon lets draft expire, but kept selective service. Revelations that several administrations had misled public about the war. Ni(cid:454)o(cid:374) (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed (cid:858)viet(cid:374)a(cid:373) (cid:455)(cid:374)dro(cid:373)e(cid:859) as a (cid:373)istake(cid:374) (cid:271)elief that viet(cid:374)a(cid:373) pro(cid:448)ed u. weakness. Herring investigates assumptions that war was necessary/winnable. Dangerous - current global situations are really different. Unclear - people dra(cid:449) differe(cid:374)t (cid:862)lesso(cid:374)s(cid:863) fro(cid:373) viet(cid:374)a(cid:373) Overall, nixon was a foreign policy realist. U. s. supports stability over democracy when strategic or economic interests at stake. Sets in motion arms control talks/treaty (salt i) D tente - easing tensions with communist nations. The watergate: hotel, apartment, office complex in washington dc. Tried to plant illegal wiretaps in democratic national headquarters. Believed any challenge to his policies was a threat to national security. Engineered a dramatic expansion of executive power. Begin to uncover a pattern of illegal actions, secretive policies, and abuses of power.
