While it is true that President Nixon, on August 15,
1971, suspended the convertibility of the U.S. Dollar into
gold in international transactions, thereby ending the
Bretton Woods regime and putting the ''final nail in the
coffin'' of the gold standard, Nixon's action was
preordained by what LBJ had done three and a half years
earlier.
On August 15, 1945, the Empire of Japan submitted its
surrender, after the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on
the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leaving 80,000 dead,
mostly civilians. But the truth is that the defeat of the Empire
of the Rising Sun began much earlier, when the Americans
assassinated Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
From
2011:You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to be
scratching your head about the end of bin Laden. Between the
Obama administration and media reports, there have been multiple
divergent accounts of the Navy SEALs mission in
Abbottabad, Pakistan, with the story seeming to be colored by
politics, sensationalism, and outright fantasy.