書單: 追逐陰影尼克森錄音帶、陳納德（陳香梅）事件和水門事件的起源

水門事件及其後續的掩蓋導致理查德·尼克森辭職，引發的政治衝擊波至今仍餘波不已。但正如肯·休斯在其強有力的新書中所揭示的那樣，在數千小時解密的白宮錄音帶中，總統只下令過一次闖入行動——而且不是在水門大廈。休斯對這起早期闖入事件（白宮最終取消了這項計畫）的調查，為人們提供了一個令人震驚的新視角，讓人們了解了長期存在的非法活動，這些活動延長了越南戰爭，而水門事件只是部分揭露了這些非法活動。

身為維吉尼亞大學米勒中心總統錄音計畫的關鍵人物，休斯花了十多年的時間開發和挖掘現存最大的約翰遜和尼克森白宮轉錄錄音帶集。休斯無與倫比的調查使他能夠揭露尼克森早在 1972 年之前，即約翰遜政府執政的最後幾個月的一系列行動模式。休斯確定了一條清晰的敘事線索，始於 1968 年的競選活動，當時尼克森擔心與越南的巴黎和談會影響他的總統競選，因此透過一位名叫陳香梅的共和黨籌款人秘密破壞了談判。大選三年後，五角大廈文件的爆炸性曝光引發了人們的恐慌，尼克森擔心自己對越南談判的叛國和政治破壞性的操縱會被揭露。休斯展示了這種恐懼如何導致了秘密調查小組、「白宮水管工」的成立，以及尼克森在橢圓形辦公室的指導下發起的非法秘密行動。休斯對白宮錄音帶的掌握無人能及，這讓他能夠對尼克森提出一個遠遠超出我們對水門事件了解範圍的論點。

《追逐陰影》也以電子書的形式提供，該書連結到米勒中心透過維吉尼亞大學出版社的電子出版公司 Rotunda 出版的大量白宮錄音帶。這個獨特的版本使讀者能夠無縫地從書本過渡到錄音的專業轉錄，並聆聽最終將改變美國歷史上這一黑暗篇章的非凡且偶爾令人震驚的對話的音頻文件。

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Chasing Shadows

The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate

Ken Hughes

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Jul 2014 240 pages ISBN: 9780813936635

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Jul 2014 240 pages ISBN: 9780813936642

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Aug 2015 240 pages ISBN: 9780813937830

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Miller Center Studies on the Presidency

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The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as Ken Hughes reveals in his powerful new book, in all the thousands of hours of declassified White House tapes, the president orders a single break-in--and it is not at the Watergate complex. Hughes’s examination of this earlier break-in, plans for which the White House ultimately scrapped, provides a shocking new perspective on a long history of illegal activity that prolonged the Vietnam War and was only partly exposed by the Watergate scandal.

As a key player in the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses. Hughes’s unparalleled investigation has allowed him to unearth a pattern of actions by Nixon going back long before 1972, to the final months of the Johnson administration. Hughes identified a clear narrative line that begins during the 1968 campaign, when Nixon, concerned about the impact on his presidential bid of the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese, secretly undermined the negotiations through a Republican fundraiser named Anna Chennault. Three years after the election, in an atmosphere of paranoia brought on by the explosive appearance of the Pentagon Papers, Nixon feared that his treasonous--and politically damaging--manipulation of the Vietnam talks would be exposed. Hughes shows how this fear led to the creation of the Secret Investigations Unit, the "White House Plumbers," and Nixon’s initiation of illegal covert operations guided by the Oval Office. Hughes’s unrivaled command of the White House tapes has allowed him to build an argument about Nixon that goes far beyond what we think we know about Watergate.

Chasing Shadows is also available as a special e-book that links to the massive collection of White House tapes published by the Miller Center through Rotunda, the electronic imprint of the University of Virginia Press. This unique edition allows the reader to move seamlessly from the book to the recordings’ expertly rendered transcripts and to listen to audio files of the remarkable--and occasionally shocking--conversations on which this dark chapter in American history would ultimately turn.

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