Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Richard Nixon
Standard Name: Nixon, Richard
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Muriel Spark | Closely modelled on the Watergate scandal of June 1972, this present-tense novel explores the Machiavellian political cunning of the recently appointed Abbess Alexandra, the Richard Nixon
figure. Norman Page calls the highly mobile negotiator Sister... |
| Occupation | Pearl S. Buck | She continued to write, and occasionally to attend meetings of Welcome House
and her Foundation
. When President Nixon
visited China in February 1972 she thought of either accompanying or following him, but found to... |
| Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | MMC
published another political work, The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits, this time taking as her subject the scandal which in the end brought down President Richard Nixon
. New York Times. New York Times Company. 30 June 1974 Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary Plain. W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. 630-1, 635 |
| Textual Production | Mary McCarthy | Vietnam was the result of this first trip to Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City). It was first published as a three-part series and later collected in a pamphlet. McCarthy's simple yet direct... |
Timeline
26 September 1960: John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part...
National or international item
26 September 1960
John F. Kennedy
and Richard Nixon
took part in the first televised debate between candidates for the presidency of the United States.
“1960: Kennedy and Nixon Clash in TV debate”. BBC News: On This Day, 26 Sept. 1960.
31 October 1968: US President Lyndon B. Johnson (in one of...
National or international item
31 October 1968
US President Lyndon B. Johnson
(in one of the final acts of his presidency) halted the bombing of North Vietnam, as a precondition for peace negotiations.
Kettle, Martin. “Nixon ’wrecked early peace in Vietnam’”. The Guardian, 9 Aug. 2000, p. 3.
3
November 1968: Richard Nixon was elected President of the...
National or international item
November 1968
Richard Nixon
was elected President of the USA at the height of the Vietnam war. He was re-elected in November 1972.
“Nixon, Richard Milhous”. Encyclopedia Americana: The American Presidency.
4 May 1970: Members of the Ohio National Guard opened...
National or international item
4 May 1970
Members of the OhioNational Guard
opened fire on students of Kent State University
demonstrating peacefully against the Vietnam War (specifically, against Nixon
's sending ground troops to Cambodia). Four students (two of each...
13 June 1971: The New York Times began printing the Pentagon...
National or international item
13 June 1971
The New York Times began printing the Pentagon Papers dossier compiled by Daniel Ellsberg
as he worked for the US administration on an internal history of American involvement in Vietnam.
Johnson, Chalmers. “Who’s in charge?”. London Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2003, pp. 7-9.
8-9
February 1972: US President Richard Nixon took the remarkable...
National or international item
February 1972
US President Richard Nixon
took the remarkable step of visiting Beijing with Henry Kissinger
for discussions with Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
, restoring relations between China and the USA.
Schell, Orville. “Realpolitik’s finest hour”. Guardian Weekly, 16–22 Mar. 2007, p. 25.
25
17 June 1972: A secret investigation unit made their second...
National or international item
17 June 1972
A secret investigation unit made their second break-in at the headquarters of the US Democratic Party
in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC; the investigators were arrested.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
224
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
“National archives 1973”. The Guardian, 1 Jan. 2004, pp. 4-5.
5
“Watergate’s Deep Throat revealed”. BBC News, 1 June 2005.
7 November 1972: Richard Nixon was re-elected President of...
National or international item
7 November 1972
Richard Nixon
was re-elected President of the United States—although his agency in the break-in to Democratic Party
headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC, had already been established by reporters Carl Bernstein
and...
9 August 1974: US President Richard Nixon, facing almost...
National or international item
9 August 1974
US President Richard Nixon
, facing almost certain impeachment over the Watergate scandal, resigned.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
224
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