Operation Menu
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Operation Menu was a covert United States Strategic Air Command tactical bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 to 26 May 1970 as part of the Vietnam War. The targets of the
B-52D bombers carry out a strike
Meeting in Beijing in 1965: Mao Zedong, Prince Sihanouk, and Liu Shaoqi (from left to right)
Air Force General George S. Brown, the man who informed the Senate Armed Services Committee
Bomb craters, Cambodia
Watergate scandal
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The Watergate scandal, or simply Watergate, was a political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon. On June 17, 1972, operatives associated with Nixon's 1
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…Journalist Stanley Karnow asserted that the illegal bugging in May 1969 marked "the first abuses of authority" under Nixon that ultimately led to the Watergate scandal. Likewise, Congressman John Conyers wrote that the Operation Menu bombings led Nixon and his staff to become "enmeshed in the snare of lies and…
A view of the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., with the Howard Johnson's motel to the left, with legal notation from the trial of the White House Plumbers
Nixon giving his staple V sign in Pennsylvania during his 1968 campaign
Retired CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (pictured 1964) were the handlers of the five Watergate burglars.
A Sony tape-recorder used by Nixon to record all conversations in the Oval Office