Letter from America: From Nixon to Carter (1969-1980)

BBC Radio 4 317 - Watergate investigators and Nixon

From America’s great hope after Nixon’s election victory, to disillusionment after Watergate through to President Carter’s election. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life, through the words of British-American journalist and broadcaster, Alastair Cooke (1908 – 2004).

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Letter from America: From Nixon to Carter (1969-1980)

Afleveringen

Watergate investigators and Nixon

The inauguration of Gerald Ford as Vice President, 1973

Nixon's Watergate speech, 1973

Watergate: Nixon's changing stories, 1973

Sam Ervin and Watergate

Watergate reporting

Watergate hearings 1973

Roe v Wade

President Truman (1884–1972)

Richard Nixon re-elected President, 1972

American reactions to Bloody Sunday, 1972

Taiwan and China

Art Buchwald

Louis Armstrong

Veteran's Day 1970

The atom bomb warning of 1939

The My Lai massacre revealed, 1969

Chrysler financial crisis deepens

Haig joins Cabinet

John Lennon’s assassination

The waiting game

Reagan's charm offensive

Reagan's political honeymoon

Why the pollsters got it wrong

Ronald Reagan’s victory, 1980

The World Series gets the vote, 1980

The book-selling business

Independents switch to Reagan

Candidates claim victory in TV debate

Small car sales boom

Candidates consider TV debate

American know-how

Energy assistance bill

America's Electoral College

Jimmy Carter is nominated for re-election

Covering the 1980 presidential campaign

Carter ratings lowest ever

Bush to be Reagan's running mate

Reagan wins Republican nomination

Row over abortion ruling

The Supreme Court

Unemployment looms in Hollywood

Isao Aoki, golfing hero

Carter's visits fail to ignite campaign

Republicans solid for Reagan

Puerto Rican immigration

Mount St Helens erupts

Car sales slump

Recession may finish Carter

Why Vance quit