Richard Nixon

Bob Woodard: 'Clinton Emails Remind Me Of Nixon Tapes'
Were the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a "breach of the rules of warfare"? How about our use of Agent Orange in Vietnam or the secret bombings of Cambodia and Laos? Furthermore, since Obama has simply continued many Bush-era policies, does this make him guilty of the same crimes?
Noam Chomsky discusses the epidemic of economic inequality and how it has grown over the decades. He also explains that Richard Nixon may have been our last 'liberal' president.
What happened on that late-summer day? It was a Sunday, and President Richard Nixon suspended convertability of the US dollar into gold, effectively ending the 25-year Bretton Woods era of fixed currency exchange rates against the US dollar.