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Richard Nixon was a controversial United States president during the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Even though he was re-elected after a landslide victory in 1972, he became the only president in US history to resign from office. Why?

Watergate. A word that has become synonymous with the Nixon administration.

Indeed, the president's abuse of power shocked America - spying, harassing political enemies, silencing critics and fighting to keep his darkest secrets away from the public eye.

Even though he ended the American involvement in the Vietnam War, was Nixon actually a peacemaker? How are the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal related?

If you think Watergate was a scandal, you don't know anything about Richard Nixon.

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Sources
http://www.amazon.com/Nixon-Vol-Education-Politician-1913-1962/dp/0671657224

Early Life
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0wRK-WPEcfwC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dM_enWzoghoC&pg=PA21
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jc7CY1yV1g8C&pg=PA217

Storm Cloud
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1509

Lightning and Thunder
http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/nixon/nixonday1.html

Love?
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FOyjfQWhvvcC&pg=PA127
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7pr3sfyVdQkC&pg=PA6
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UyfcLYY9F0gC&pg=RA1-PA1924

The Debater
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0wRK-WPEcfwC&pg=PA27
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=93gNMZUTWCQC&pg=PT474

Hunger for Power
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9228257/Like-baboons-our-elected-leaders-are-literally-addicted-to-power.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3319675

Launch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss
http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/4.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_espionage_in_the_United_States
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol44no5/html/v44i5a01p.htm

Path to Presidency
http://nixonfoundation.org/about/president-richard-nixon/richard-nixon-a-timeline

Nixon Shock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock#Event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixonomics

Runaway Inflation
http://www.measuringworth.com/uscpi

Bretton Woods
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

Inflation Nation
http://mises.org/books/brettonwoods.pdf

Mad Warmonger
http://caho-test.cc.columbia.edu/dbq/11101.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_with_Honor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Giant_Lance
http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-03/ff_nuclearwar?currentPage=all

War on Drugs
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1521-0391.2010.00046.x/abstract

Aftermath
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http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1887488,00.html
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00-03.htm

Bombing of Cambodia
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http://www.yale.edu/cgp/Walrus_CambodiaBombing_OCT06.pdf
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/unexploded-bombs-in-germany-the-lethal-legacy-of-world-war-ii-a-584091.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jSdYz91-sJYC&pg=PA19

PR Bombs
http://www.yale.edu/gsp/publications/collateral_damage.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Mq8sAcvg-AgC&pg=PA23
http://japanfocus.org/-ben-kiernan/2420

Creating a Monster
http://www.yale.edu/cgp
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/what-the-us-bombing-of-cambodia-tells-us-about-obamas-drone-campaign/273142
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Cambodia#Population

Watergate Scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

Power Withdrawal
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1976/jul-aug/millett.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I2jCJnMD96IC&pg=PA123
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#Pardon_of_Nixon
http://www.history.com/topics/watergate

Looming Shadows
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UyfcLYY9F0gC&pg=RA1-PT553
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords#Paris_peace_talks

Traitor
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http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-tapes-reveal-lbj-knew-but-never-spoke-out-about-nixons-treason-2013-3
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-nixons-long-shadow/2014/08/06/fad8c00c-1ccb-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/60446
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Shadows-Chennault-Origins-Watergate/dp/0813936632
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Stolen-Narrative-Washington-Madison/dp/1893517055
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441

Later Years and Death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Later_years_and_death

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