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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Watergate"”.
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Nixon's Wars: Secrecy, Watergate, and the CIA
<p>Watergate is considered the most infamous political scandal in American history. It resulted in the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, and it had a profound, lasting, and damaging impact on the American people’s trust in government. The story of Watergate is often intertwined with that …
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The investigation of scandal from Watergate to Monicagate: the special prosecutor in late twentieth century American politics
… reputation of the office in the period from the Watergate scandal of the mid 1970s to the Lewinsky scandal of the late 1990s. The project will evaluate the role of the Special Prosecutor in the investigation of alleged executive wrongdoing and analyse changing trends in political, judicial, media …
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The Enduring Mythological Role of the Anonymous Source Deep Throat
… Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's impeachment and resignation in 1974. Deep Throat's identity was a source of curiosity until he was revealed in 2005 as the former number two figure at the FBI, William Mark Felt. This thesis …
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From revolution to revolt in theatre artistry: A shift in American attitude from Vietnam to Watergate reflected in the musicals "Chicago" and "Hair"
… its time. From two historical events, Vietnam to Watergate, there is a shift in attitude evident in two pieces of musical theater, Hair and Chicago. What is fascinating is that both Vietnam and Watergate are tragic events: one because of the unnecessary loss of life, and the other because of a …
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Developing Magnetic Resonance Based Analytics to Support Continuous Bioprocess
… solvent suppression. The new pulse sequences T1-WATERGATE, T2-WATERGATE and Diff-WATERGATE are proposed, which allow for the visualization and assessment of macro-protein signals. The effects of protein concentration on diffusion coefficients, relaxation times and spectral peak area are explored. …
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The War Powers Resolution: Reassessing the Constitutional Balance of Power
… Through a major domestic policy blunder, the Watergate break-in, and a foreign policy disaster, the on-going war in Vietnam, opposition to Nixon’s presidential conduct united both the House and the Senate and resulted in legislation that would attempt to restore the Constitutional balance of …
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Political Scandals and Policy Creation
… public policy creation. Using evidence from the Watergate, Iran Contra, Whitewater and Monica Lewinksy scandal, this study investigates the combined factors of political scandal, media and public opinion. This study hypothesizes a positive relationship between these combined factors and policy …
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Step in Time
… was an era known for the Vietnam War protests, Watergate and the killing of four students at Kent State University. It was a time of bright colors — when kitchens were decorated with lime and orange decor — and the psychedelic use of drug experimentation that became commonplace among youth who …
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US policy towards Indochina, 1973-6
… that Nixon and Kissinger rightly considered the Watergate scandal as the detennining factor for the actual passage of the long-sought congressional funding cuts for Indochina, it is also argued that Watergate was a self-inflicted mistake rather than a tragedy. More generally speaking, it is …
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Woes of the Arkansas Internationalist: J. William Fulbright, the Middle East, and the Death of American Liberalism
… to the Washington establishment amidst the Watergate scandal, and old age. Scholars, however, have not paid enough attention to the role Fulbright's Middle Eastern stances played in his final election campaign. I seek to place the voice of Arkansans in the national and international …
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Misplaced Justice: the Hadamar War Crimes Trial of Irmgard Huber
… the U.S. Army, and who later gained fame as the Watergate Special Prosecutor. There are discrepancies between official published records and the Department of Defense case files. This paper examines these case files, which are now de-classified, re-evaluating the prosecution of one defendant in …
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Covering the World with the International Herald Tribune
… of the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers, and Watergate. This dissertation provides a transnational account of American journalism as a constituent part of American market empire by tracing the evolutions that the IHT underwent from the end of Marshall Plan attempts to use it as a tool of …
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Stop Talking about Sorrow: Nixon’s Communications Strategy after Lam Son 719
… This political comeback, often overshadowed by Watergate, provides unique perspectives on presidential communications.</p>
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Identifying power relationships in dialogues
… apply our integrated system, PRISM, on the Nixon Watergate Transcripts, to demonstrate that our system can perform robustly on real world data.
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Campaigning for authenticity
… and cultural upheaval resulting from Vietnam and Watergate challenged Americans' trust in politicians and campaign politics; resulting structural reforms transformed presidential nomination and election processes. The growth of soft news, human interest, and television talk shows required …
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Generic innovation and social change : the American thriller in the 1970s
… thrillers and crucial political events such as Watergate. Following a survey of what might be thought to be the key discursive features of the history of the 1970s, the thriller in the period will be approached in two ways: in relation to its historical existence, and in relation to its …
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The Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Towards Understanding Chromatographic Separations of Proteins
… water molecules of the buffer mobile phase. The WATERGATE pulse sequence was utilised for the suppression of water signal, enabling the NMR behaviours of other protein sample constituents such as sucrose and NIP228 to be studied. It was then demonstrated how the 1H signal intensity of the resin …
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Race of the century : Guy vs. Young, 1974 North Dakota U.S. Senate election
… rivals continued their efforts in 1974 and the Watergate scandal reached a crescendo, political observers recognized that a basic realignment of political party dominance could occur when, as seemed most likely, Guy defeated Young. When statewide Democratic candidates received more votes than …
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Offensive weapons: Herblock and the visual rhetoric of postwar liberalism
"Herbert Block—better known by his nom de plume ""Herblock""—was one of the most prominent voices of liberalism in the postwar era. In his role as political cartoonist for the Washington Post, which he held from 1946 until his death in 2001, he articulated the values of liberalism to a much broader …
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From the Committee of 100 to the Committee to Re-Elect the President: The Political Campaigns of Richard M. Nixon
<p><em>From the Committee of 100 to the Committee to Re-elect the President: The Political Campaigns of Richard M. Nixon</em> offers the reader a comprehensive biography of Richard M. Nixon through the lens of his political campaigns. This thesis illustrates how Richard Nixon became one of the …