Today in History - July 24

   A special thanks to Wikipedia.com for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

1712 – War of the Spanish Succession: The French under Marshal Villars win a decisive victory over Eugene of Savoy at Denain.[2]

Recommended lecture: The Colonial Wars of America and their Providential Significance, by Bill Potter

1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.

Recommended podcast: Christian Vs Mormon Debate, Review, by Dr. James White

1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

Note: I read the books, All the President's Men and The Final Days, in the late 1970s. Bob Woodward was a big hero of mine back then. But after reading Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein I've come to suspect that there was a lot more to the "investigative reporting" that ended the Nixon presidence than Americans have been led to believe. Here is a quote from this great book:

"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff, as quoted in