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1974

In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. Gerald Ford, his predecessor, would issue his full pardon exactly one month later.

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh Publishes a Story about Operation CHAOS, the Domestic Surveillance and Infiltration of Anti-War and Civil Rights Groups

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh Publishes a Story about Operation CHAOS, the Domestic Surveillance and Infiltration of Anti-War and Civil Rights Groups

Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh publishes a story about Operation CHAOS, the domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war and civil rights groups in the U.S. that began under President Johnson in 1968. The story sparks national outrage. Read the story in the NY Times Archive HERE Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was the code name for an American domestic espionage project conducted by the Central ...
Henry Kissinger's Plan for Food Control Population Reduction is Introduced

Henry Kissinger’s Plan for Food Control Population Reduction is Introduced

National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200) was completed by the United States National Security Council under the direction of Henry Kissinger. It was adopted as official U.S. policy by President Gerald Ford in November 1975. It was originally classified, but was later declassified and obtained by researchers in the early 1990s. Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide by Joseph Brewda | Dec ...
Activist, Karen Silkwood, Murdered and Incriminating Docs Disappear After She Blew the Whistle on Kerr-McGee's Nuclear Plant Fraud, Health & Safety Violations

Activist, Karen Silkwood, Murdered and Incriminating Docs Disappear After She Blew the Whistle on Kerr-McGee’s Nuclear Plant Fraud, Health & Safety Violations

Karen Silkwood, a labor union activist who had discovered numerous health and safety violations and alleged  Kerr-McGee falsified inspection records at the chemical plant in Oklahoma, died mysteriously later of the very day it was discovered that her recent health issues were the result of Plutonium radiation poisoning in her home (especially in kitchen around the fridge) and had her home decontaminated. Her body was found ...
President Ford Pardons Impeached President Nixon Before he Could be Tried for Conspiracy

President Ford Pardons Impeached President Nixon Before he Could be Tried for Conspiracy

President Gerald Ford (R) pardoned President Richard Nixon (R), (who had chosen Ford to be his vice-president), just before Nixon could be tried for conspiracy and impeached by Congress for his role in the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford had been the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives. He was chosen by Nixon to be Vice-President, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew in October 1973. In the new president’s own words, he ...
Nixon Announces his Resignation

Nixon Announces his Resignation

In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House. “By taking this action,” he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, “I ...
CIA 1974 National Security Threat: Global Cooling/Excess Arctic Ice Causing Extreme Weather

CIA 1974 National Security Threat: Global Cooling/Excess Arctic Ice Causing Extreme Weather

In 1974, the intelligence and climate science communities put out a propaganda warning that global cooling was a world threat ...
The First Item Marked with the Universal Product Code (UPC) was Scanned at a Supermarket in Miami, OH

The First Item Marked with the Universal Product Code (UPC) was Scanned at a Supermarket in Miami, OH

Every few years, the small town of Troy in Miami County, Ohio celebrates an historic occasion that for a few giddy weeks puts it on the world map of the grocery trade. At the time, National Cash Register, which provided the checkout equipment, was based in Ohio and Troy was also the headquarters of the Hobart Corporation, which developed the weighing and pricing machines for loose ...
Time Magazine's First Doom-and-Gloom Story on the Inevitable Onset of Global Cooling

Time Magazine’s First Doom-and-Gloom Story on the Inevitable Onset of Global Cooling

Although Richard Nixon was featured on the cover of the June 24, 1974 issue of Time magazine, from a historian's point of view the most interesting article within that edition was a doom-and-gloom story about the inevitable onset of global cooling. Yep, global cooling--not global warming. The article said, 'Telltale signs are everywhere — from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters ...
'The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence' by Victor Marchetti (Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA) & John D. Marks (US Dept. of State) is Published

‘The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence’ by Victor Marchetti (Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA) & John D. Marks (US Dept. of State) is Published

The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence is a 1974 controversial non-fiction political book written by Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, & John D. Marks, a former officer of the United States Department of State. The authors claim to expose how the CIA actually works & how its original purpose (i.e. collecting & analyzing information about ...
Henry Kissinger Proposed in his Memorandum to the NSC that "Depopulation Should be the Highest Priority of U.S. Foreign Policy Towards the Third World."

Henry Kissinger Proposed in his Memorandum to the NSC that “Depopulation Should be the Highest Priority of U.S. Foreign Policy Towards the Third World.”

National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974, and titled "Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests," says: "Dr. Henry Kissinger proposed in his memorandum to the NSC that "depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World." He quoted reasons of national security, and because (t)he U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of ...