On March 18, 1969, newly elected President Richard Nixon ordered the secret bombing of neutral Cambodia. It was the first in a series of events whose consequences were to dominate American politics and society during the first half of the 1970s. Given Nixon’s past history–his hawkish foreign policy views and his gift for manipulating anticommunism to further his political career–there should have been little surprise that he ordered the bombing…
Films of Interest:
Long Goodbye, Obsession, The Godfather and Network
…Nashville’s vision of of the role of the media–especially in the political arena–has grown more apt and pointed with each passing decade, though there was no denying the power of the media to shape American public opinion during the late 1960s and 1970s…
On March 18, 1969, newly elected President Richard Nixon ordered the secret bombing of neutral Cambodia. It was the first in a series of events whose consequences were to dominate American politics and society during the first half of the 1970s. Given Nixon’s past history–his hawkish foreign policy views and his gift for manipulating anticommunism to further his political career–there should have been little surprise that he ordered the bombing…
Films of Interest:
Long Goodbye, Obsession, The Godfather and Network
…Nashville’s vision of of the role of the media–especially in the political arena–has grown more apt and pointed with each passing decade, though there was no denying the power of the media to shape American public opinion during the late 1960s and 1970s…