Letter From the President of Texas A & M University - Central Texas to Len Colodny. (Click for PDF)
Len Colodny, Warrior for Truth
January 21, 1938 ~ July 2, 2021
-Writen by Robert Gettlin
How do you say goodbye to someone who truly changed the world?
How do you lay to rest a treasured friend, partner, and guide who burned so bright and was relentlessly strong, like a candle in the wind when the skies were dark and filled with storms, and he alone lighted the way?
What do you do when that flame burns out and the physical glow is no more?
These are the questions that have come back to me time and again in the weeks since Len died on July 2 at the age of 83. He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather to his family, and an unflinching and loyal friend to so many from diverse backgrounds and views. And, of course, he was a brilliant analyst, an unstoppable investigator, and a bestselling author. He left us a rich and remarkable legacy that helps us understand pivotal and shattering events in our recent American story. His goal was to correct mistaken and misunderstood history, to unveil that which was hidden and to explain its meaning.
These are the questions that have come back to me time and again in the weeks since Len died on July 2 at the age of 83. He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather to his family, and an unflinching and loyal friend to so many from diverse backgrounds and views. And, of course, he was a brilliant analyst, an unstoppable investigator, and a bestselling author. He left us a rich and remarkable legacy that helps us understand pivotal and shattering events in our recent American story. His goal was to correct mistaken and misunderstood history, to unveil that which was hidden and to explain its meaning.
Len Colodny was a warrior for truth.
His great legacy that lives on is the trove of materials and records he bequeathed to Texas A&M University, and which are archived in the very appropriately named “Colodny Collection.” Len’s enduring wish was that others follow the path he began to carve, and there are indeed more than a few journalists, writers, and historians who will tell you that he encouraged them to do that, and that they blazed their own trails.
Len co-authored two groundbreaking books, one a national bestseller – Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, published in 1991. That book was a game changer, like Len himself. And because of that book we better understand what actually happened in the Watergate saga and in the complicated tragedy of Richard Nixon’s presidency.
In Memory of Leonard Colodny, 1938-2021. Len was a New York Times bestselling author, political analyst, and investigator. His research and writing on Watergate and the Nixon Administration was groundbreaking.
Midnight Rider Podcast
Midnight Writer News Episode 158 – S.T. Patrick with Robert Gettlin on “Watergate, Silent Coup, and Len Colodny”
Bob Woodward Articles
"Silent Coup, The Removal of a President"
SILENT COUP is the excavation of some vital of some vital hidden history, of a national scandal within a scandal, and of a literary-journalistic atrocity of revealing while concealing.
There are several virtues that make this book quite remarkable among political writing of our era. What follows is a finely styled, fast-paced narrative, gripping as it is disturbing. Distinguished from so much written about Watergate and Richard Nixon, it also happens to be true.
You are about to read the story of a coup d’état, of all political events the most dramatic, suspenseful, sinister. To make the subject even more ominous, this is an American coup, albeit carried out (for a change) in the United States itself.
- Roger Morris, former National Security Council Staff Member under Henry Kissinger
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"The Forty Years War" Introduces Fritz G.A. Kraemer
The Forty Years War” introduces you to the most important foreign policy thinker you never heard of: Fritz G.A. Kraemer. Kraemer is the father of the "provocative weakness theory," more popularly called by Neocons as "peace through strength."
Kraemer believed that power came from military strength and that any sign of weakening military resolve invited trouble from our rivals.
President Ronald Reagan first adopted Kraemer's theory in 1981, and it has been a force ever since.
"A rigorous and critical examination of the neoconservative movement and the bureaucratic, ideological battles over American foreign policy.
Highly recommended" - Library Journal
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The Colodny Collection at Texas A&M University - Central Texas
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Users of the sites can examine the evidence contained on the sites, and arrive at their own opinions as to exactly what took place in the demise of the Nixon Presidency.
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