Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 16, 1975

Runtime

0h 27m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

Director

Richard Marquand

Description

American defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of Mr Nixon’s Secret Legacy. John Pilger says that military thinkers in Washington are for the first time “thinking the unthinkable” and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union announced by Ford and Henry Kissinger are “no more than a sham”. Before resigning over Watergate, President Richard Nixon had given Pentagon generals a flexible strategy that would blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear warfare.