Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] the Labour Party. Nixon’s treason: still officially unspeakable In 1968, as that year’s presidential election came into view, President Johnson and those around him learned that Richard Nixon was doing his best to frustrate the Vietnam peace talks then underway in Paris. Nixon was afraid that a peace deal would enable the Democrats to […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] had “brought the CIA a good background as former UN ambassador and US representative to China.”’ 5 However, as his campaign developed, Carter pointedly claimed that the Nixon and Ford administrations had used important government positions as though they were a ‘dumping ground for unsuccessful candidates, faithful political partisans, out-of-favor White House aides and […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? The DNC was a bureaucratic entity, not where the political action was. In his memoirs, Richard Nixon recalled his reaction to learning of the burglary: ‘……..Anyone who knew anything about politics would know that a national committee headquarters was a useless place to […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] difficult to tell precisely where the Luce empire’s overseas intelligence network ended and the CIA’s began’.25 During Eisenhower’s second term, Time magazine’s cover had featured vice-president Richard Nixon no fewer than five times. There was no doubt about where this was heading, and in October 1960 the Luces’ endorsement of presidential candidate Nixon was […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] is occasionally guilty of conspiratorial speculation – his writing is an impressive mixture of analysis and polemic Through this main narrative are striking by-ways: an essay on Nixon, listing the good things the Nixon regimes did (and it’s quite a list, most of which I had forgotten); and an account of the Reagan administration’s […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: Douglas Valentine Waterville (Oregon):TrineDay, 2009, $24.95 (USA) Dr. T. P. Wilkinson When I was a child the older daughter of my father’s best friend was reading a book called The Secret Language. I remember searching for the book in the school library, but failing to find it, begged Susan to lend me her copy. At […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] Even as the last US Americans2 0 and their Vietnamese retainers were being ferried out of Saigon forty years ago, there was no talk of surrender. Richard Nixon always spoke of ‘peace with honour’: this is the perfume of a bully applied to the skin of a coward. As far as the White House, […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] Mark Felt – whether he was ‘deep throat’ or not – leaking to Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post as the FBI tried to undermine President Nixon whose aspirations to gain control of parts of the deep state threatened both the FBI and CIA. Continues at the foot of the next page. The […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: The Christian Right Revisited John Newsinger The Christian Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 […]