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Watergate and Nixon’s Resignation

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· February 28, 2004 
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As noted earlier, in June 1971, in response to the news that the Nixon administration had expanded fighting in the Vietnam War to Cambodia, Daniel Ellsberg, a former government intelligence officer, leaked the “Pentagon Papers” to the New York Times, which printed the material. The Pentagon Papers “revealed a long history of government lies—of lies spoken to foreign governments, lies…

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The Ervin Committee/The White House Tapes/Nixon’s Resignation

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· January 28, 2004 
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The United States Senate appointed a special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, to investigate the White House shenanigans. The Senate, via The Ervin Committee, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, started hearings related to the Watergate break in and other dirty tricks on May 17, 1973. The hearings were televised and the nation’s citizens were glued to their TV sets….

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The Watergate Legacy

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· December 28, 2003 
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In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Congress passed a series of laws designed to reform the political process. Disclosures during the Watergate investigations of money-laundering led Congress to provide public financing of presidential elections, public disclosure of sources of funding, limits on private campaign contributions and spending, and to enforce campaign finance laws by an independent Federal Election Commission….

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America and the Middle East

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· November 28, 2003 
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See related sections: The Arab Oil Embargo The Camp David Accords The Iranian Revolution The Persian Gulf War

The Arab Oil Embargo

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· October 28, 2003 
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In the 1950s and 1960s, oil supply was not a problem in the United States. As a nation, the U.S. acted as though there was an endless amount of cheap oil and gasoline. Emblematic of this attitude was America’s love affair with high-powered, high-performance, tricked-out, gas guzzling automobiles (“muscle cars”) that generated a whole genre of pop music (“hot rod…

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The Camp David Accords

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· September 28, 2003 
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Although American foreign policy recognized the U.S.’s special relationship with Israel, it also acknowledged that peace in the Middle East was essential for international stability. Thus, American diplomatic leaders continually tried to improve relations between the competing sides. Since the founding of Israel in 1948, Egypt’s ( and other Arab nations) foreign policy had been built around destroying the Jewish…

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The Iranian Revolution/The Rise of Radical Islam

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· August 28, 2003 
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Iran, known from ancient times as Persia, has a culture that dates back to early biblical times. It is one of the oldest major civilizations in the Middle East, and from time-to-time was an empire of major proportions. Persia was conquered by Islamic forces in the seventh century. The Shia sect is and has been Iran’s official religion since around…

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The Persian Gulf War – Operation Desert Storm

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· July 28, 2003 
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Iran and Iraq represent different, hostile strains of the Muslim religion (i.e. the Shiite and Sunni branches) and there have been long-simmering border disputes between the countries. Those facts, plus Arab-Persian cultural differences, make these two countries enemies. Due to hostility stemming from the Iranian Islamic Revolution and the hostage crisis, the United States shifted its friendship from Iran to…

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Reagan’s Central American Foreign Policy

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· June 28, 2003 
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The Monroe Doctrine, which established the American sphere of influence in the Caribbean and Central America, played a significant role in the formation of American foreign policy throughout the 20th century even before John Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Theodore Roosevelt’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, adopted in the first decade of the 20th…

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Eastern European Nationalistic Protests against the Soviet Union

Posted by Mike Palumbo 
· May 28, 2003 
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Although Soviet Russia generally controlled the members of the Warsaw Pact with an iron hand during the Cold War years, there were more than a few instances of significant uprisings (expressions of citizen dissent) in the Warsaw Pact states. One of the first of these occurred in Hungary in October 1956. Hungarian citizens staged a spontaneous uprising in an effort…

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