Letter From America By Alistair Cooke: From Nixon To Carter (1969-1980)
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- Duration: 74:39:26
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Synopsis
From Americas great hope after Nixons election victory, to disillusionment after Watergate through to President Carters election. Alistair Cooke's account of American life.
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Watergate investigators and Nixon
26/10/1973 Duration: 14minSpeculation, suspicion and compromise. Demands, resignations and black clouds over President Nixon's refusal to assist the Watergate investigators.
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The inauguration of Gerald Ford as Vice President, 1973
19/10/1973 Duration: 13minA lack of procedure for the events following the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, and the promotion of Gerald Ford from House Minority Leader to Vice President.
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Nixon's Watergate speech, 1973
25/08/1973 Duration: 13minThe speech that President Nixon had hoped would sink the Watergate scandal once and for all fails to hit its target, according to polling.
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Watergate: Nixon's changing stories, 1973
26/05/1973 Duration: 13minA question of clarity. A week of presidential explanation, in the guise of polysyllabic obfuscation, over the Watergate scandal.
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Sam Ervin and Watergate
19/05/1973 Duration: 13minWatergate - Nixon's admirers in the Kremlin, and how the tenacious lawyer Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina challenged Nixon.
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Watergate reporting
12/05/1973 Duration: 13minTrial by the press: is the tidal wave of Watergate reporting drowning the 'not guilty' pleas of all the president's men?
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Watergate hearings 1973
05/05/1973 Duration: 14minCan the Watergate hearings restore the faith of the people in a system of government that has taken so many beatings?
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Roe v Wade
27/01/1973 Duration: 14minWhere next for Vietnam, as 18 years of savage fighting comes to an end? And the Supreme Court rules on abortion for all in Roe v Wade.
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President Truman (1884–1972)
30/12/1972 Duration: 13minPresident Truman's life, his Missouri farm childhood, his war service, and how his political skills and achievements may have been overlooked by his critics.
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Richard Nixon re-elected President, 1972
11/11/1972 Duration: 13minNixon's landslide victory, how close he came to winning in 1960, and why middle class Americans have been moving to the right as they have fled the city centres for the suburbs.
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American reactions to Bloody Sunday, 1972
05/02/1972 Duration: 13minAmerican reaction to claims of British brutality in Northern Ireland, and an early glimpse into the Kennedy clan.
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Taiwan and China
30/10/1971 Duration: 14minTaiwan is out, and China in – why the change of seats in the UN General Assembly is much more than musical chairs.
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Art Buchwald
18/09/1971 Duration: 13minThe wit and wisdom of Art Buchwald, political satirist and columnist for the Washington Post and a modern day Jonathan Swift.
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Louis Armstrong
10/07/1971 Duration: 14minA tribute to trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), his life and music, and how attitudes to jazz have changed since Cooke's teenage years in Blackpool.
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Veteran's Day 1970
14/11/1970 Duration: 14minDishonouring the dead: the sad scenes at New York's Hunter College, when acts of Veteran's Day remembrance turned into political stances, and forgot the victims of war.
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The atom bomb warning of 1939
08/08/1970 Duration: 14minHow Roosevelt was warned of Germany's nuclear threat by two Hungarian refugees from Long Island in 1939, thanks to a boy who liked fishing.
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The My Lai massacre revealed, 1969
30/11/1969 Duration: 14minThe American reaction to hearing of the horror of the Son My massacre (My Lai) in Vietnam, and parallels with Hiroshima and the Allied devastation of Dresden.