By John W. Dean
Based on Nixon's missed recordings, ny instances bestselling writer John W. Dean connects the dots among what we've come to think approximately Watergate and what truly happened
Watergate without end replaced American politics, and in mild of the revelations concerning the NSA's frequent surveillance application, the scandal has taken on new importance. but remarkably, 4 many years after Nixon used to be compelled to surrender, nobody has advised the whole tale of his involvement in Watergate.
In The Nixon Defense, former White residence tips John W. Dean, one of many final significant surviving figures of Watergate, attracts on his personal transcripts of virtually 1000 conversations, a wealth of Nixon's secretly recorded info, and greater than 150,000 pages of files within the nationwide files and the Nixon Library to supply the definitive solution to the query: What did President
Nixon comprehend and while did he understand it?
via narrative and contemporaneous discussion, Dean connects dots that experience by no means been attached, together with revealing how and why the Watergate break-in happened, what was once at the mysterious 18 0.5 minute hole in Nixon's recorded conversations, and more.
In what's going to stand because the such a lot authoritative account of 1 of America's worst political scandals, The Nixon Defense exhibits how the disastrous error of Watergate might have been shunned and gives a cautionary story for our personal time.
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The Triebflügel also points to another direction wartime German research pursued, and pursued with a vengeance: high performance ramjet-propelled aircraft. Indeed, when entering this area of inquiry, one is again entering one of those areas where the reality of wartime German accomplishments in secret weapons research was in diametric contradiction to the post-war Allied Legend, only in this case, the legend is not about the Allies having acquired the a-bomb while the Nazis remained incompetent nuclear bunglers, but about the fact that an American, Chuck Yeager, was the first human to pilot an aircraft through the sound barrier, an event that occurred after the war’s end and the beginning of America’s own black projects in exotic aircraft and space-based weapons.
But was a full scale version of the rocket, or for that matter, any of the other intercontinental rocket designs the Nazis had proposed, ever tested? ” E. SS Obergruppenführer Hans Kammlers “Evacuation” of Peenemünde and the Russian Arrival Is there any indication that these early German ICBM “bundle rockets” or any other long-range strategic rockets went to actual construction and testing? If so, then the logical choice was Peenemünde, for in spite of the heavy attention of Allied bombers, it was the only place presumably with facilities large enough to achieve the task.
After an attack the Type XXI escaped at maximum speed, at which the enemy’s sonar was totally ineffective (it maintained effectiveness up to approx. 12 knots). 27 21 Witkowski, The Truth About the Wunderwaffe, p. 126. v. Joseph P. Farrell, Reich of the Black Sun, pp. 242-245. 126. , p. 127. 25 Ibid. 26 Ibid. 27 Ibid. ” It was a deadly reality. One can only imagine what a Type XXI equipped with the new wire-guided or acoustic-homing torpedoes would have done to Allied shipping had it entered service in sufficient numbers.