The Post - Debate Show with highlights, analysis, and setting the record straight from the Debate a Half Century in the Making: Wine Banks vs Shepard (SPECIAL EVENT)
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I told you it was a barn burner of a debate didn't I, and it lived up to the billing!!
Now if you have not seen it here is the link:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521064-5/washington-journal-jill-wine-banks-geoff-shepard-discuss-watergate-50th-anniversary
In this episode we go through many of the exchanges and provide you with the facts of the case.
We will go back through:
- Who hired G. Gordon Liddy to run the campaign intelligence plan
- The Bombshell phone call between President Nixon and Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen = Big time exculpatory
- Were the Shepard Documents Debunked?
- The Giant Credibility Gap of Richard Ben Veniste
- Whose idea was third party verification
- The real relevance of the Smoking Gun Tape
- Elizabeth Holtzman will talk about the road map provided by the WSPF
- Bernard Nussbaum, of the House Judiciary Committee staff, talks about not being allowed to actually investigate the case, and only collating the information to show the congressmen on the committee.
- Henry Ruth talks about his secret meetings after hours with John Doar, head of the House Judiciary committee's investigation staff, both at the office and over at his house for dinner to allegedly plot Watergate strategy, even using babysitters to pass information
It is all here and it will shock you!! This is one great hour, and it sets the stage for the story to come and the fall of Richard Nixon.
But, also, as we shall see, you can't keep a good man down, and before we are through you will also witness the re-rise and enormous impact Richard Nixon was still to play in the history of our World.
So tune in to Season 8 of "Randal Wallace Presents: Richard Nixon and Watergate 1974 - 1994 The Fall and Re-Rise of Richard Nixon" it starts back on October 16, 2022
** The crowd noise was added for dramatic effect, these shows were not taped in front of an audience nor at the C-Span event
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