• the non-fiction book Gifts of Deceit described Koreagate, and the United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church?
• former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?

Facts on topics related to Koreagate

Gerald Ford

• All-American footballer Paul G. Goebel (pictured) recommended Gerald Ford to the coach of the Michigan football team and later urged Ford to run for Congress?
• Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
• comedian Bob Hope, U.S. President Gerald Ford and, according to the Washington Post, every great African American professional golfer except Tiger Woods have played at Langston Golf Course?
• future U.S. President Gerald Ford waited tables at the fraternity house of Michigan halfback Herman Everhardus?
• talks between President Gerald Ford and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1975 were held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida?
• team MVP Gerald Ford (pictured) recalled that Michigan's 1934 "Punt, Pass and Prayer" offense lost punter John Regeczi and passer "Hard Luck Bill" Renner and "all we had left was the prayer"?

Israel

• "A-Ba-Ni-Bi", Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin?
• 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?
• 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
• archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?
• Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion, after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan, co-founder of the Israeli–Palestinian Council?
• fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave, Israel, show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook?
• Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
• Israel has the highest solar energy use per capita in the world?
• Israel is the world's largest recipient of United States overseas military assistance?
• Israel's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine?

Richard Nixon

• DNC Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell was mentioned in Richard Nixon's Checkers speech after he called for Nixon to resign from his ticket?
• Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
• political illustrator Steve Brodner has caricatured American Presidents going back to Richard Nixon?
• Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President?
• Richard Nixon credited Tony Mazzocchi with being the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
• Richard Nixon was approached to run in California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 only after local Republicans failed to interest General George Patton in the race?
• in 1950, L.A. Daily News publisher Manchester Boddy ran in both Senate primaries, with the paper first to call Democrat Helen Douglas "the pink lady" and Republican Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick"?
• Albert Levitt was involved in the drafting of the ERA, challenged the appointment of Justice Hugo Black, and ran against Nixon for Senate?
• Dan Fefferman was director of a group organized by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon to support Richard Nixon when the U.S. President faced impeachment?
• David L. Cole served in the labor mediation field under every US President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon?