Watergate Revisited with Garrett Graff
The Lawfare Podcast
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The US and the Soviet Union in the Cold War
As israel begins to turn the tide, there becomes this panic on the arab side and they turn to the soviet union for help. It takes them a while to get there, but once they do, it is truly a massive effort that shows the american commitment to isIsrael. And through all this, richard nixon, who is weathering the resignation of his vice president, the battle for the tapes, saturday night massacre, is drinking heavily and despondent and depressed and isolated in the white house residence. N it's this incredible moment in national security history where we see the defcon level raised, and there is no evidence that richard n Nixon participated
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