Richard Nixon : speeches, writings, documents / edited and introduced by Rick Perlstein.

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Uniform Title:Works. Selections. 2008
Main Author: Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Other Authors: Perlstein, Rick, 1969-
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Series:James Madison library in American politics.
Princeton paperbacks.
Subjects:
Nixon, Richard M. > (Richard Milhous), > 1913-1994 > Archives.
Presidents > United States > Archives.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989 > Sources.
Genre:
Archives.
Sources.
Physical Description:lxix, 291 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Youth
  • From RN : the memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978)
  • Two letters (1923 and 1924)
  • "Our privileges under the Constitution" (1929)
  • From the Frank Gannon interviews (1983)
  • Congress
  • "The Hiss case--a lesson for the American people" (January 26, 1950)
  • The "pink sheet" (1950)
  • The "Checkers speech" (September 23, 1952)
  • Vice president
  • "When you go out to shoot rats" (March 13, 1954)
  • The "kitchen debate" (July 24, 1959)
  • Opening statement, the great debate : Kennedy v. Nixon (September 26, 1960)
  • Comeback
  • "Gentlemen, this is my last press conference" (November 6, 1962)
  • "The irresponsible tactics of some of the extreme civil rights leaders" (February 12, 1964)
  • "Appraisal from Manila" (November 4, 1966)
  • "What has happened to America?" (Reader's digest, October 1967)
  • "Asia after Viet Nam" (Foreign affairs, October 1967)
  • "The first civil right of every American is to be free from domestic violence" (August 8, 1968)
  • President
  • "To lower our voices would be a simple thing" (January 20, 1969)
  • "The present welfare system has to be judged a colossal failure" (August 8, 1969)
  • "The great silent majority of my fellow Americans" (November 3, 1969)
  • "The postwar period in international relations has ended" (February 18, 1970)
  • Four Vietnam statements (1970)
  • Two political statements (1970)
  • "Our best days lie ahead" (August 15, 1971)
  • "One China" (February 24, 1972)
  • "He can undisappear if we want him to" (June 23, 1972)
  • "Her name was Tanya" (August 23, 1972)
  • "There can be no whitewash at the White House" (April 30, 1973)
  • "I am not a crook" (November 17, 1973)
  • "I made clear there was to be no coverup" (April 29, 1974)
  • "My mother was a saint" (August 9, 1974).