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Name __Gabrielle_Jones_____ Class (circle): 12:45pm

History 2110 (Spring 2020): Richard Nixon Documentary Assignment – April 23, 2020 HBO Documentary Nixon by Nixon in His Own Words – As you watch the film please answer all the following questions. The questions are based on content spaced in sequence throughout the film and are intended to ensure that you see the whole film from beginning to end. The documentary is the best film I have seen exposing the inner workings, beliefs, and actions of Richard Nixon as well as important events of the time. At the end of the film, please submit this sheet with your answers as an attachment to the dropbox provided in iCollege, under “Assessments/Assignments” no later than April 27th at 5 pm. Submissions after this time will not be given credit for the assignment. This assignment is intended to be done independently by each student although you can watch the film together with other members of the class please answer the questions on your own. Be sure to put your name at the top of the sheet. This assignment will constitute your “Top Hat Questions” grade for the day. 1. According to Nixon who did he get his arguing ability from: _________his father__________________ 2. What musical instrument did Nixon play as a child? ______________piano____________________ 3. According to Nixon who is the enemy? He repeats it 3 times in a row in the film: ______the press________________________________________________ 4. What year did Nixon start secretly recording private conversations in his office and elsewhere and what year did it stop? __________1971 to 1973__________________________________ 5. According to Nixon why was the taping done? ______having it for historical record (his uncensored story)___________ 6. Who was Nixon’s Chief Domestic Adviser? ________________John Enrlichman_______________________ 7. Did first lady Pat Nixon know she was being recorded? __________________she didn’t know______________ 8. What derogatory nickname did the Vietnam Veterans use for Richard Nixon? ___________they called him “Tricky Dick”________________________________ 9. Who testified in front of Congress (former gunboat commander) and said, “So Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, the first President to lose a war? __John Kerry_______________ 10. Who did Nixon say was the “voice of America?” _______________________it was the silent majority_____________________________________________________ 11. Which newspaper published the Pentagon Papers? ____________The New York Times_______________________ 12. What individual released/leaked the Pentagon Papers? _____________Daniel Ellsberg____________________ 13. What did Nixon say about Jews in the aftermath of the release of the Pentagon Papers?

I.e. What did he call them? __________________ther are “born spies”________________________________________ 14. What was Nixon’s real opinion about putting a woman on the Supreme Court? ____he’s anxious to have a woman and he doesn’twant them to zero in too much… handles women with a smile_____ 15. Which two individuals did Nixon end up nominating for the Supreme Court? _________________Lewis F. Powell and William Rehnquist ________________ 16. What did Nixon do to U.S. Immigration officer George Rosenberg? ____He put him out for going on television_________________________________________________ 17. According to opinion polls in 1972, what two characteristics did 50% of Americans think Nixon lacked? ____________________________personal growth and compassion_____________________________________ 18. What two newspapers did Richard Nixon want to “screw” on his visit to China? ___________________The Washington Post and The New York Times_____________________________________________________ 19. What did Richard Nixon say they called his wife Pat? _________________Palstic Path____________ 20. How did Nixon classify Aristotle and Socrates? ___________He classified them as “homo”____________________ 21. What did Henry Kissinger say about the Vietnam War on October 26, 1972? ______”peace is at hand”_____________________________ 22. Who was the author of an article in the New York Times entitled “Nixon and Kissinger?” ________________James Reston_______________________________________________________ 23. What did Nixon do to reporters from the Washington Post after December 11, 1972? ____________they were not invited to the White House parties that weekend and were no loner able to go to the White House again___________________________________________________________ 24. Harry Reasoner in Commentary characterized Nixon after his second inauguration by two terms. One was intelligent. What was the other term? _______________complex____________________ 25. What did John Dean say on a recording “we have a ___cancer____ - within – close to the Presidency – that is growing” (Fill in the blank) 26. Who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished service? ____The Washington Post________ and who were the two individuals recognized? _Carl Bernsrein ans Robert Woodward____________________________________ 27. Who testified to the Senate that Nixon knew about the Watergate cover-up? _______________________John Dean_______________________________________________________ 28. Who revealed to the Senate in its hearings that there were secret tapings in the White House; in the oval office and elsewhere? ______________________Alexander Butterfield______________________________ 29. What did Nixon say to Alexander Haig as his confession, taking blame, of what happened in Watergate?_________Nixon would resign but it would be with diginity and low rancor… “well I really screwed it up...”__________________ 30. What day did Richard Nixon resign the office of the Presidency? __________August 9, 1974_____________________________________________ Please sign (print) name attesting to the fact that you have completed this assignment independently and without the aid of anyone else.

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