Word: hersh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Does anyone here believe that he [Nixon] didn't have a commitment? I'm here to tell you that he had a commitment; the alternative would have been to impose a military government." Hersh said, though he later labeled the statement an opinion in response to a question from the audience...
...Hersh did not restrict his comments to the Nixon Administration. In response to a question from a member of the audience, he charged that the Reagan Administration had satellite evidence of an Argentinian buildup nine days before the seizure of the Falkland Islands. President Reagan's failure to act before the crisis began, he charged, is characteristic of a foreign policy of "chaos...
...Hersh claimed we now have a "presidency by kitchen cabinet," adding that major foreign policy issues are being compressed by Reagan's aids into paragraph form so that the President can understand them...
...being programmed," Hersh said...
...Hersh, who has won numerous major journalism onwards, began his career in 1959 as a UPI correspondent. After serving as a New York Times correspondent form 1963-1977, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 when he uncovered the Mai Lai Massacre