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‘Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate’

Richard Nixon, Anna Chennault, and Henry Kissinger

Richard Nixon, Anna Chennault, and Henry Kissinger

American Forum

‘Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate’

Ken Hughes

Wednesday, November 05, 2014
6:00AM - 7:30AM (EST)
Event Details

The break-in at the Watergate complex and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of President Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. The Miller Center's Ken Hughes discusses his book Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate, which uses the Nixon and Johnson tapes to explore Nixon’s secret interference in Vietnam peace talks during the 1968 election.

As a key player in the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses.

When
Wednesday, November 05, 2014
6:00AM - 7:30AM (EST)
Where
The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Speakers
Ken Hughes headshot

Ken Hughes

Bob Woodward has called Ken Hughes “one of America's foremost experts on secret presidential recordings, especially those of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.” Hughes has spent two decades mining the Secret White House Tapes and unearthing their secrets. As a journalist writing in the pages of the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, and Boston Globe Magazine, and, since 2000, as a researcher with the Miller Center, Hughes’ work has illuminated the uses and abuses of presidential power involved in (among other things) the origins of Watergate, Jimmy Hoffa’s release from federal prison, and the politics of the Vietnam War.