Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: From Nixon to Carter (1969-1980)
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From America’s great hope after Nixon’s election victory, to disillusionment after Watergate through to President Carter’s election. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life, through the words of British-American journalist and broadcaster, Alastair Cooke (1908 – 2004).
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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Chrysler financial crisis deepens
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Dec 26, 1980 |
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Haig joins Cabinet
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Dec 19, 1980 |
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John Lennon’s assassination
|
Dec 12, 1980 |
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The waiting game
|
Dec 05, 1980 |
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Reagan's charm offensive
|
Nov 28, 1980 |
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Reagan's political honeymoon
|
Nov 21, 1980 |
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Why the pollsters got it wrong
|
Nov 14, 1980 |
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Ronald Reagan’s victory, 1980
|
Nov 07, 1980 |
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The World Series gets the vote, 1980
|
Oct 17, 1980 |
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The book-selling business
|
Oct 10, 1980 |
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Independents switch to Reagan
|
Oct 03, 1980 |
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Candidates claim victory in TV debate
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Sep 26, 1980 |
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Small car sales boom
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Sep 19, 1980 |
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Candidates consider TV debate
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Sep 12, 1980 |
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American know-how
|
Sep 05, 1980 |
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Energy assistance bill
|
Aug 29, 1980 |
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America's Electoral College
|
Aug 22, 1980 |
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Jimmy Carter is nominated for re-election
|
Aug 15, 1980 |
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Covering the 1980 presidential campaign
|
Aug 08, 1980 |
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Carter ratings lowest ever
|
Aug 01, 1980 |
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Bush to be Reagan's running mate
|
Jul 25, 1980 |
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Reagan wins Republican nomination
|
Jul 18, 1980 |
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Row over abortion ruling
|
Jul 11, 1980 |
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The Supreme Court
|
Jul 04, 1980 |
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Unemployment looms in Hollywood
|
Jun 27, 1980 |
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Isao Aoki, golfing hero
|
Jun 20, 1980 |
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Carter's visits fail to ignite campaign
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Jun 13, 1980 |
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Republicans solid for Reagan
|
Jun 06, 1980 |
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Puerto Rican immigration
|
May 30, 1980 |
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Mount St Helens erupts
|
May 23, 1980 |
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Car sales slump
|
May 16, 1980 |
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Recession may finish Carter
|
May 09, 1980 |
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Why Vance quit
|
May 02, 1980 |
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Iranian hostage rescue attempt, 1980
|
Apr 25, 1980 |
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Kennedy's last stand
|
Apr 18, 1980 |
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New York transport strike
|
Apr 11, 1980 |
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Extension of primary elections
|
Apr 04, 1980 |
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Kennedy's brief triumph
|
Mar 28, 1980 |
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Illinois crucial in presidential race
|
Mar 21, 1980 |
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Inflation fuels alarm over policies
|
Mar 14, 1980 |
|
Foreign policy wobbles
|
Mar 07, 1980 |
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Iran hostage crisis goes on
|
Feb 29, 1980 |
|
New Hampshire, the political weathervane
|
Feb 22, 1980 |
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Carter's ultimatum under fire
|
Feb 15, 1980 |
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The Canadian Caper in Tehran, 1979
|
Feb 08, 1980 |
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Carter steals rivals' thunder
|
Feb 01, 1980 |
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UN vote condemns Soviets
|
Jan 25, 1980 |
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Call for Olympics boycott
|
Jan 18, 1980 |
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Carter boosts arms budget
|
Jan 11, 1980 |
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
|
Jan 04, 1980 |
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Iran sanctions stalled in UN
|
Dec 28, 1979 |
|
Cambodian refugee crisis
|
Dec 21, 1979 |
|
US and Iran
|
Dec 14, 1979 |
|
Public back Carter on hostage crisis
|
Dec 07, 1979 |
|
Bungle claim over Iran hostage crisis
|
Nov 30, 1979 |
|
American embassy hostages stalemate
|
Nov 23, 1979 |
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Tehran hostage crisis
|
Nov 16, 1979 |
|
Pork barrel politics
|
Nov 09, 1979 |
|
Interest rates rise
|
Nov 02, 1979 |
|
No more nukes
|
Oct 26, 1979 |
|
New York Times mistake
|
Oct 19, 1979 |
|
A common language?
|
Oct 12, 1979 |
|
Pope John Paul II's visit
|
Oct 05, 1979 |
|
Dubious poll results
|
Sep 28, 1979 |
|
Jean Seberg and the FBI, 1979
|
Sep 21, 1979 |
|
Soviet troops in Cuba
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Sep 14, 1979 |
|
Dalai Lama visits US
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Sep 07, 1979 |
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Murder of Lord Mountbatten
|
Aug 31, 1979 |
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Stagnant economy warning
|
Aug 24, 1979 |
|
Young's final diplomacy
|
Aug 17, 1979 |
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Small earthquake in 'Frisco
|
Aug 10, 1979 |
|
The politics of plain speaking
|
Aug 03, 1979 |
|
Carter reshuffles his team
|
Jul 27, 1979 |
|
Cabinet resignation call
|
Jul 20, 1979 |
|
Skylab crash lands
|
Jul 13, 1979 |
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Carter silent on oil crisis
|
Jul 06, 1979 |
|
Gromyko's threat to SALT treaty
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Jun 29, 1979 |
|
The murder of Bill Stewart in Nicaragua, 1979
|
Jun 22, 1979 |
|
John Wayne obituary, 1979
|
Jun 15, 1979 |
|
Pope visits Poland
|
Jun 08, 1979 |
|
O.J.Simpson, sports star
|
Jun 01, 1979 |
|
Harvey Milk killing
|
May 25, 1979 |
|
Petrol shortage in US
|
May 18, 1979 |
|
William Safire on Thatcher
|
May 11, 1979 |
|
US v UK elections
|
May 04, 1979 |
|
Press freedom
|
Apr 27, 1979 |
|
Lee Marvin property suit
|
Apr 20, 1979 |
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Government unable to vouch for nuclear safety
|
Apr 13, 1979 |
|
Three Mile Island Accident
|
Apr 06, 1979 |
|
Inflation at 14.4 per cent
|
Mar 30, 1979 |
|
How Texas became American
|
Mar 23, 1979 |
|
Carter's popularity slumps
|
Mar 16, 1979 |
|
Mexico strikes oil
|
Mar 09, 1979 |
|
Jane Byrne voted Chicago mayor
|
Mar 02, 1979 |
|
Freedom of Information Act
|
Feb 23, 1979 |
|
Oil rationing threat
|
Feb 16, 1979 |
|
Chinese visit rattles USSR
|
Feb 09, 1979 |
|
Chinese state visit
|
Feb 02, 1979 |
|
Carter's austere budget
|
Jan 26, 1979 |
|
Shah flees Iran
|
Jan 19, 1979 |
|
Pol Pot regime falls
|
Jan 12, 1979 |
|
White Christmas in Vermont
|
Jan 05, 1979 |
|
End of the year report, 1978
|
Dec 29, 1978 |
|
Carter and Taiwan
|
Dec 22, 1978 |
|
Human rights and the UN
|
Dec 15, 1978 |
|
Carter at the opera
|
Dec 08, 1978 |
|
Jonestown massacre
|
Dec 01, 1978 |
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Mid-term election, November 1978
|
Nov 24, 1978 |
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Economic predictions, November 1978
|
Nov 17, 1978 |
|
NY newspaper strike ends
|
Nov 10, 1978 |
|
Mid-term elections
|
Nov 03, 1978 |
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Inflation fears rise
|
Oct 27, 1978 |
|
Carter's three bills passed
|
Oct 20, 1978 |
|
Shevchenko's affairs
|
Oct 13, 1978 |
|
Airlines back Laker
|
Oct 06, 1978 |
|
Carter boosted by summit
|
Sep 29, 1978 |
|
Muhammad Ali, September 1978
|
Sep 22, 1978 |
|
Camp David summit
|
Sep 15, 1978 |
|
New York's ethnic mix
|
Sep 08, 1978 |
|
Energy bill at risk
|
Sep 01, 1978 |
|
Carter vetoes defence bill
|
Aug 25, 1978 |
|
Long Island life
|
Aug 18, 1978 |
|
Using the First Amendment
|
Aug 11, 1978 |
|
Joggers in Central Park
|
Aug 04, 1978 |
|
Billy Martin leaves Yankees
|
Jul 28, 1978 |
|
Political prisoners
|
Jul 21, 1978 |
|
US foreign policy unclear
|
Jul 14, 1978 |
|
Fourth of July
|
Jul 07, 1978 |
|
Bakke case ruling
|
Jun 30, 1978 |
|
Carter's civil defence policy
|
Jun 23, 1978 |
|
Commencement
|
Jun 16, 1978 |
|
Cities' finance problems
|
Jun 09, 1978 |
|
The Grand Canyon
|
Jun 02, 1978 |
|
Proposition 13
|
May 26, 1978 |
|
News timing
|
May 19, 1978 |
|
Murder of Aldo Moro
|
May 12, 1978 |
|
Modern weddings
|
May 05, 1978 |
|
Protest and historical change
|
Apr 28, 1978 |
|
Panama treaty agreed
|
Apr 21, 1978 |
|
Inflation fears
|
Apr 14, 1978 |
|
New York financial crisis
|
Apr 07, 1978 |
|
Carter's broken promises
|
Mar 31, 1978 |
|
Snow in Mexico
|
Mar 24, 1978 |
|
Holiday reading
|
Mar 17, 1978 |
|
From Mexico
|
Mar 10, 1978 |
|
Dollar slumps in Europe
|
Mar 03, 1978 |
|
Ten years after Tet, February 1978
|
Feb 24, 1978 |
|
Fighter planes for Egypt
|
Feb 17, 1978 |
|
Dr Strangelove and the Soviet spy satellite
|
Feb 10, 1978 |
|
Foreign correspondents
|
Feb 03, 1978 |
|
Mayor Koch snowed under
|
Jan 27, 1978 |
|
Hubert Humphrey obituary
|
Jan 20, 1978 |
|
Radio City to close
|
Jan 13, 1978 |
|
Domestic affairs
|
Jan 06, 1978 |
|
Britons are too happy
|
Dec 30, 1977 |
|
Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby
|
Dec 23, 1977 |
|
Smallpox eradicated
|
Dec 16, 1977 |
|
National miners' strike
|
Dec 09, 1977 |
|
US defence of Israel
|
Dec 02, 1977 |
|
Sadat in Israel
|
Nov 25, 1977 |
|
Armed service pregnancy
|
Nov 18, 1977 |
|
Local issues
|
Nov 11, 1977 |
|
UN and plane hijacking
|
Oct 28, 1977 |
|
The United Nations
|
Oct 21, 1977 |
|
The World Series
|
Oct 14, 1977 |
|
The political filibuster
|
Oct 07, 1977 |
|
Ralph Nader tackles sport
|
Sep 30, 1977 |
|
Arrival of autumn
|
Sep 23, 1977 |
|
Anti-Semitism and WASPs
|
Sep 16, 1977 |
|
The rat race
|
Sep 09, 1977 |
|
Panama Canal treaty
|
Sep 02, 1977 |
|
'Son of Sam' killer caught
|
Aug 26, 1977 |
|
Death of Elvis, August 1977
|
Aug 19, 1977 |
|
Carter's energy bill
|
Aug 12, 1977 |
|
Media coverage of looting
|
Aug 05, 1977 |
|
Urban problems are universal
|
Jul 29, 1977 |
|
New York looting
|
Jul 22, 1977 |
|
New York blackout
|
Jul 15, 1977 |
|
SALT talks
|
Jul 08, 1977 |
|
Loss of sportsmanship
|
Jul 01, 1977 |
|
New York car parking ban
|
Jun 24, 1977 |
|
Big cars are back
|
Jun 17, 1977 |
|
Royal Jubilee
|
Jun 10, 1977 |
|
Frost/Nixon interview cut
|
Jun 03, 1977 |
|
Kingman Brewster
|
May 27, 1977 |
|
Health and safety
|
May 20, 1977 |
|
Carter on energy policy
|
May 13, 1977 |
|
Frost/Nixon TV interviews, May 1977
|
May 06, 1977 |
|
Carter's first Europe visit
|
Apr 29, 1977 |
|
Corporal punishment ruling
|
Apr 22, 1977 |
|
Presidential expectations
|
Apr 15, 1977 |
|
US-Soviet arms talks collapse
|
Apr 08, 1977 |
|
Carter's popularity soars
|
Apr 01, 1977 |
|
When fact becomes fiction
|
Mar 25, 1977 |
|
Falling standards of literacy
|
Mar 18, 1977 |
|
Carter cuts aid deals
|
Mar 11, 1977 |
|
Equal Rights hold-up
|
Mar 04, 1977 |
|
Collective bargaining law
|
Feb 25, 1977 |
|
Obscenity laws
|
Feb 18, 1977 |
|
First weeks of Carter presidency
|
Feb 11, 1977 |
|
Severe winter weather
|
Feb 04, 1977 |
|
Government by the people
|
Jan 28, 1977 |
|
President Carter inaugurated
|
Jan 21, 1977 |
|
Carter's inauguration preparations
|
Jan 14, 1977 |
|
Death with dignity law
|
Jan 07, 1977 |
|
Christmas in Vermont, 1976
|
Dec 31, 1976 |
|
Racial discrimination, 1976
|
Dec 24, 1976 |
|
Immigrant work ethic
|
Dec 17, 1976 |
|
Bertram Lance appointed budget director
|
Dec 10, 1976 |
|
Friedman warns on inflation
|
Dec 03, 1976 |
|
Assassinations committee
|
Nov 26, 1976 |
|
Shining the light on payola
|
Nov 19, 1976 |
|
Jimmy Carter elected president, 1976
|
Nov 12, 1976 |
|
Presidential election, November 1976
|
Nov 05, 1976 |
|
Presidential election polls, October 1976
|
Oct 29, 1976 |
|
Politics v baseball
|
Oct 22, 1976 |
|
Presidential candidates' TV debates
|
Oct 08, 1976 |
|
Unsporting manners
|
Oct 01, 1976 |
|
Carter Playboy interview, September 1976
|
Sep 24, 1976 |
|
Vietnam asks for UN membership
|
Sep 17, 1976 |
|
Double-deck bus trouble in NY
|
Sep 10, 1976 |
|
Jimmy Carter's background
|
Aug 27, 1976 |
|
Reagan loses Republican nomination
|
Aug 20, 1976 |
|
Republican convention Kansas
|
Aug 13, 1976 |
|
Ford bounces back in opinion polls
|
Aug 06, 1976 |
|
China earthquake
|
Jul 30, 1976 |
|
Special relationship especially warm
|
Jul 23, 1976 |
|
Private security firms
|
Jul 16, 1976 |
|
Britain's heatwave
|
Jul 09, 1976 |
|
Party conventions
|
Jul 02, 1976 |
|
Italian elections
|
Jun 25, 1976 |
|
Ford and Reagan battle for Republican nomination
|
Jun 18, 1976 |
|
Carter and Ford face conventions
|
Jun 11, 1976 |
|
Primary battle reaching climax
|
Jun 04, 1976 |
|
California's Proposition 15
|
May 28, 1976 |
|
Maintenance workers strike
|
May 21, 1976 |
|
US-USSR nuclear deal kept quiet
|
May 14, 1976 |
|
Panama blunder by Reagan
|
May 07, 1976 |
|
UN wasting money
|
Apr 30, 1976 |
|
Spring heatwave, 1976
|
Apr 23, 1976 |
|
San Francisco transport strike
|
Apr 16, 1976 |
|
Anxiety over Soviet superpower
|
Apr 09, 1976 |
|
Ford boosts defence spending
|
Apr 02, 1976 |
|
Swine flu outbreak
|
Mar 26, 1976 |
|
The special relationship
|
Mar 19, 1976 |
|
Social surveys
|
Mar 12, 1976 |
|
Massachusetts primary, March 1976
|
Mar 05, 1976 |
|
First primary in presidential campaign
|
Feb 27, 1976 |
|
Presidential campaign begins
|
Feb 20, 1976 |
|
Gossip
|
Feb 13, 1976 |
|
Hearst jury selected
|
Feb 06, 1976 |
|
Preconceptions about place
|
Jan 30, 1976 |
|
American political parties
|
Jan 23, 1976 |
|
Musical comedy
|
Jan 16, 1976 |
|
Anne Armstrong appointed London envoy
|
Jan 09, 1976 |
|
Bicentennial year
|
Jan 02, 1976 |
|
Ford loses Angola aid vote
|
Dec 26, 1975 |
|
Moynihan angry over UN's Zionist vote
|
Dec 19, 1975 |
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NYC aid bill passed
|
Dec 12, 1975 |
|
Hazards of ballet dancing
|
Dec 05, 1975 |
|
Report uncovers CIA murder plots
|
Nov 28, 1975 |
|
Reagan declares candidacy
|
Nov 21, 1975 |
|
Ford shakes up team
|
Nov 14, 1975 |
|
Stand-off over NYC finances
|
Nov 07, 1975 |
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New bonds deal for NY finances
|
Oct 31, 1975 |
|
Russians win US grain deal
|
Oct 24, 1975 |
|
Ford-Rockefeller squabble over NY finances
|
Oct 17, 1975 |
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Networks refuse Ford air time
|
Oct 10, 1975 |
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Visit of Japanese emperor
|
Oct 03, 1975 |
|
Patty Hearst arrest, 1975
|
Sep 26, 1975 |
|
Assassination attempt on Ford
|
Sep 12, 1975 |
|
Ford on Portuguese revolution
|
Aug 22, 1975 |
|
Grain export boycott
|
Aug 15, 1975 |
|
Nuclear power
|
Aug 01, 1975 |
|
The secret of longevity
|
Jul 25, 1975 |
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US/USSR handshakes, 1975
|
Jul 18, 1975 |
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The Helsinki Accords
|
Jul 11, 1975 |
|
Tax exiles, July 1975
|
Jul 04, 1975 |
|
The Ford presidency
|
Jun 27, 1975 |
|
Travel myths
|
Jun 20, 1975 |
|
Big MAC saves New York
|
Jun 13, 1975 |
|
Doctors' strike
|
Jun 06, 1975 |
|
English language problems
|
May 30, 1975 |
|
Global climate change
|
May 23, 1975 |
|
Cambodia gunboat diplomacy
|
May 16, 1975 |
|
Arab-Israeli peace deal collapses, March 1975
|
Mar 28, 1975 |
|
Women's Lib, 1975
|
Mar 21, 1975 |
|
Row over Cambodia aid
|
Mar 14, 1975 |
|
US import restrictions, March 1975
|
Mar 07, 1975 |
|
Changing United Nations
|
Dec 27, 1974 |
|
TV news coverage, 1974
|
Nov 29, 1974 |
|
Boston busing crisis, 1974
|
Oct 18, 1974 |
|
Gerald Ford, the new man in the White House, 1974
|
Aug 23, 1974 |
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Nixon's resignation speech, August 1974
|
Aug 16, 1974 |
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Nixon's resignation, 1974
|
Aug 09, 1974 |
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San Francisco: Detroit of the Pacific?
|
Jun 07, 1974 |
|
Duke Ellington
|
May 31, 1974 |
|
Corruption
|
May 10, 1974 |
|
Nixon's tax returns go public
|
Dec 14, 1973 |
|
Should Nixon resign?
|
Nov 09, 1973 |
|
Watergate investigators and Nixon
|
Oct 26, 1973 |
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The inauguration of Gerald Ford as Vice President, 1973
|
Oct 19, 1973 |
|
Nixon's Watergate speech, 1973
|
Aug 25, 1973 |
|
Watergate: Nixon's changing stories, 1973
|
May 26, 1973 |
|
Sam Ervin and Watergate
|
May 19, 1973 |
|
Watergate reporting
|
May 12, 1973 |
|
Watergate hearings 1973
|
May 05, 1973 |
|
Roe v Wade
|
Jan 27, 1973 |
|
President Truman (1884–1972)
|
Dec 30, 1972 |
|
Richard Nixon re-elected President, 1972
|
Nov 11, 1972 |
|
American reactions to Bloody Sunday, 1972
|
Feb 05, 1972 |
|
Taiwan and China
|
Oct 30, 1971 |
|
Art Buchwald
|
Sep 18, 1971 |
|
Louis Armstrong
|
Jul 10, 1971 |
|
Veteran's Day 1970
|
Nov 14, 1970 |
|
The atom bomb warning of 1939
|
Aug 08, 1970 |
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The My Lai massacre revealed, 1969
|
Nov 30, 1969 |