Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Watergate / Nixon Shock Bretton Woods/Drug War


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Watergate Burglars

The missing 18 1/2 minutes: Presidential destruction of incriminating evidence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/16/the-missing-18-12-minutes-presidential-destruction-of-incriminating-evidence/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.20e5c216b166 

Nixon and the End of the Bretton Woods System, 1971–1973

On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon announced his New Economic Policy, a program “to create a new prosperity without war.” Known colloquially as the “Nixon shock,” the initiative marked the beginning of the end for the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates established at the end of World War II.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/nixon-shock 


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