Description |
1 sound disc (60 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in |
Series |
Torn curtain ; episode 3
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Hindsight (Radio program)
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Summary |
Richard Nixon has just been elected on a promise of peace with honour a promise to get American troops out of Vietnam and heal the deep divisions in American society. But within six months of moving into the White House, Nixon would embark on a highly secret strategy of massively escalating the war and bluffing the Soviet Union that he was prepared to use nuclear weapons. We'll also hear some surprising revelations about how Soviet leaders saw the Vietnam war and their involvement in it |
Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC (Radio National)"Hindsight" broadcast February 13, 2005. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
Subject |
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Cold War
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Author |
Radio National (Australia)
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