Nixon, Richard

Operation Nickel Grass: Richard Nixon and the Yom Kippur War is a critical examination of the American military intervention in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At the request of the Israeli government, President Nixon ordered the United States Air Force to ship military equipment, weap…

For a brief 895 days, Gerald Ford served as the only president in US History who was neither elected president nor vice president, gaining his office due to the enactment of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. Following Watergate, President Ford pardoned former President Ric…

Tom Skinner, a preacher and evangelist from Harlem during the 1960's and 70's was publicly critical of Billy Graham's support of Richard Nixon. He and Graham shared many of their theological commitments but not their political ones. This essay argues that his reasons for this ar…

Sino-Lao relations from 1954 through 1995, in the context of world politics, and with particular emphasis on the theory and practice of the five principles of peaceful coexistence, is the subject of this work. In chapter one the historical setting for Sino-Lao relations is prese…

The two political scandals known popularly as Watergate and Iran-Contra suggest that planned violation of the law may be a specific governance strategy used by the presidency, rather than aberrant behavior. This strategy, identified as malfeasance, is part of a larger executive …