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Defining Documents in American History: Secrets, Leaks & Scandals

Table of Contents

Complete Table of Contents




Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Secrets, Conspiracies, and Scandals through the 19th Century




General Benedict Arnold to Major John André




Thomas Jefferson to Edmond Charles Genêt




Ciphered Letter of Aaron Burr to General James Wilkinson




Fletcher v. Peck




The Dred Scott Decision




Speech on the Trent Affair




Accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre




Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee




Documents Relating to Black Friday, 1869




Articles of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson




Verse and Cartoon about Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall




Crédit Mobilier Scandal




Samuel Tilden’s Speech Conceding the Election of 1876




Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act




The Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine




Controversies, Conflicts, and Communism through the mid-20th Century




From The Jungle




U.S.–Mexico Tensions




The Zimmerman Telegram




The Espionage Act of 1917




On the Tulsa Race Riot




On the Teapot Dome Scandal




Speech against the President’s “Court Packing” Plan




Memorandum for the President, December 7, 1941




Executive Order 9066—Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians




Letter Recommending Navajo Enlistment




To All Persons of Japanese Ancestry




Testimony of Whittaker Chambers




Klaus Fuchs Statement of Guilt




Rosenberg Case Excerpts




Dean Acheson on the “Loss” of China




CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran




Launching of the Sputnik Satellite




The U2 Spy-Plane Incident—Excerpts of a Speech by Khrushchev




Operation Mongoose




Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield on U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia




On the Prospect of a Generals’ Coup




Key Findings of the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy




On Alleged Soviet and Cuban Connections with Lee Harvey Oswald




Government in Hiding, from Vietnam to Watergate and After




Meeting Between the President and His Advisors




“No Attractive Course of Action”




The President and His Advisors Review the Situation




Taped Conversation regarding the Chennault Affair




Henry Kissinger to Nixon




Testimony regarding the My Lai Massacre




Nixon on Operations in Cambodia




Kissinger Memo regarding Policy toward Chile




U.S. Contingency Plans in Light of Cuban-Soviet Intervention in Angola




Taped Conversation regarding the Pentagon Papers




New York Times Co. v. United States




Watergate Tape Transcript




United States v. Nixon




Church Committee Report on Foreign Assassinations




Church Committee Report on Domestic Surveillance




Scandals, Scares, and Intelligence Failures in Recent Decades




United States v. Kelly—An “Abscam” Case




Able Archer ’83: The Soviet “War Scare”




President Ronald Reagan’s Address to the Nation on the Iran-Contra Affair




Clarence Thomas Hearing Excerpts




The Whitewater Controversy




The Monica Lewinsky Scandal




Bush v. Gore




Public Statement on the Release of the 9/11 Commission Report




“Mission to Niger” and the Valerie Plame Affair




Intelligence Report on Iraq’s Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction




Lies, Leaks, and Hacks in the Contemporary Period




Manning-Lamo Chat Logs




Statements by President Barack Obama and a Spokesperson for Donald Trump regarding the “Birtherism” Controversy




Snowden E-mail




Fake News—Pope Francis’s Alleged Endorsement of Donald Trump




“Access Hollywood” Tape of Donald Trump




From the John Podesta E-mail Hack




Executive Order regarding U.S.-Mexico Border Child Separations




Selected Environmental Debacles




Rachel Carson: Silent Spring




Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President




Hurricane Katrina Teleconference




Flint, Michigan: Water Crisis




Appendices




Chronological List




Web Resources




General Bibliography