Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page document left no doubt that Nixon would have been indicted after his resignation for various crimes, notably the cover-up of White House involvement in the wiretap-burglary. He was saved only by President Ford's pardon...
Most surprising of all was the report's unflattering portrayal of the role of one of Watergate's ostensible heroes: former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, now U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The document concedes that Richardson acted conscientiously in resigning rather than bowing to Nixon's orders to fire Cox. But until then, the report claims, Richardson continually urged Cox to limit his investigation and to stop pushing so hard for evidence...
Among presidential autographs, those most in demand are by Lincoln, Washington and John F. Kennedy. Almost any signed Lincoln document is worth at least $2,000; Abe's reply to a girl who had urged him to grow whiskers - "Do you not think people would call it a silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?"_sold for $20,000. A 1785 letter from Washington in which he refused "pecuniary reward" for his services to the young country fetched $37,000 in 1973, an alltime record for a presidential letter. The highest price ever bid for a letter...
...robot writer that can realistically reproduce a signature. A memorable excerpt from J.F.K.'s inaugural address ("Ask not what your country can do for you . . ."), handwritten and signed by the President on White House stationery, sold for $11,000 in 1971, the highest price paid for a document signed by any U.S. President since Lincoln...
Despite its lapses into obsessive speculations about connections between irrelevant figures and dubious arguments by analogy of modus operandi, Coup d'Etat is a chillingly convincing book. Canfield and Weberman document their assertions scrupulously, displaying a total command of both the voluminous Warren Commission papers and the assassination literature. Their theory explains the assassination coherently and fits all the known facts better than any other. The portrait of the CIA that emerges from this book, coupled with the revelations of Marchetti, Agee, and company, presents the agency as an invisible government, acting independently at home and abroad, affiliated with factions...