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It has been 50 years since the Administration of Richard Nixon. In that time, the left has waged a war on history to define Richard Nixon as a failure as President. For much of the half century Richard Nixon's name was synonymous with corruption and Government overreach. Podcasts, Documentaries, Cable Network specials have all controlled a narrative that cast Richard Nixon as the 20th centuries great American Villain. But all of that has changed. First in 2013, Geoff Shepard, Richard Nixon's ...
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The Hiss-Chambers case gripped the nation in 1948 and still provokes controversy. Take a deep factual dive into the story of two brilliant, fascinating men, sensational Congressional hearings, spy documents hidden in a dumbwaiter shaft and a pumpkin, the trial of the century, and the launch of Richard Nixon’s career.
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Send us a Text Message. In this second edition of our look at the relationship Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon had with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin , we take a little detour to listen to some of the current thoughts of Dr. Henry Kissinger, who is now 99 years old and out with yet another book. This time a book that chronicles the great exa…
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Send us a Text Message. From Wikipedia: " Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin (Russian: Анато́лий Фёдорович Добры́нин, 16 November 1919 – 6 April 2010) was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and politician. He was the Soviet ambassador to the United States for more than two decades, from 1962 to 1986. He attracted notoriety among the American public during and…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we travel the world with Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Here we see one last triumph for the President who brought peace to millions. He first visits France to restore good relations in Europe which had felt long neglected by its American ally as we had been bogged down in Vietnam for over a decade. While…
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Send us a Text Message. Fritz Kraemer, was a mysterious figure, here described in Wikipedia "He was always flamboyant and eccentric. Kraemer wore a monocle and it became his trademark" " Kraemer was described as the father of the neo-conservative movement in US foreign policy.[6] Kraemer was unswerving in his contempt for “provocative weakness,” wa…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the fourth edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon. This episode will conclude the arguments by both sides to the Supreme Court in the historic case of Watergate.By Randal Wallace
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the third edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon. This episode will conclude President Nixon's attorney James St. Clair's presentation and include the Special Prosecutor's Office Counsel Phil Lacavara's presentatio…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the second edition of our podcast presentation of the entire arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case of the United States vs Richard Nixon. This episode will conclude Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's presentation and begin most of President Nixon's attorney James St. Clair's presentation.…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the first of four episodes that will make up our podcast rebroadcast of the entire oral arguments of the case of The United States of America vs Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America. When people usually see the Youtube video of these arguments the first thing they notice is that they are three …
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Send us a Text Message. This is a brief introduction to our format for the next two weeks of podcast episodes. We had a storytelling issue because the events covered were things that occurred simultaneously on opposite sides of the world. We broke them apart in order to not leave you confused as these events unfolded. We also decided to change the …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we examine the events that led to the Supreme Court Case of The United States of America vs Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America. We examine the wrangling over just how many tapes the Special Prosecutor would ask for and his attempt to blackmail the President into backing off of his claim …
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we cover the opening day of the Impeachment Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. We listen to staffers of the committee and a couple of the committee members as they discuss the way the committee operated and the issues they faced as they moved forward to really look at the events. You will also hear fro…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we listen as the House Judiciary Committee sets up shop to start their look into the impeachment of Richard Nixon. You will hear from Bernard Nussbaum as he talks about the decision by John Doar not to aggressively investigate the facts of the case instead deciding they would collate the evidence already gath…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we are going to introduce you to a new set of players in the saga of the fall of Richard Nixon. These are the members of the House Judiciary Committee and its staff. We chose five of them. Representatives Elizabeth Holtzman D-New York and Trent Lott R-Mississippi, two people at the very start of their long an…
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Send us a Text Message. In this , the season premier or our final season on "Richard Nixon and Watergate 1974 - 1994 The Fall and Re-Rise of Richard Nixon" we take a thorough examination of the actual crime that our President had been accused of by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. It was that he authorized the payment of $75,000 in hush mon…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 wi…
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Send us a Text Message. WELCOME TO OUR FIRST EVER SPECIAL EVENT!!!!! We are so excited to put this event together to kick off the final season of our look back at, not only Watergate, but at our five season look back at the most controversial period in American History, the Vietnam War Era . This episode is an attempt to introduce you to the two hi…
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Send us a Text Message. Here are the instructions to fully enjoy our Podcast Special Event tomorrow night. Our first post of the pre debate show will post at 8 PM (Sorry for saying in the broadcast 8:30 but it won't let me post in the half hour) Our second post for the post Debate show will post at 10 pm Both shows will be shared on Facebook and Tw…
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Send us a Text Message. Get Ready for an event like no other in the past half century. Finally Richard Nixon will get his day. It is a podcast event that we guarantee you will change everything you thought you knew about Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. As Finally, The Special Prosecutors, Jill Wine Banks, have to face the Nixon Defense tea…
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Send us a Text Message. Finally, we have arrived at the end of the Richard Nixon and Watergate story. Here we prepare you for the final chapters of the story of Richard Nixon's fall. His futile fight to save his Presidency in these final 5 months of his tenure. But we will fast forward a half Century for a special event of monumental proportions pr…
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Send us a Text Message. In our Richard Nixon and Watergate, 1974 Through the Fire , season 7 finale, all the plotting and planning bares fruit as the Special Prosecutor's get both their indictments and they are able to assist their favorite Judge John J. Sirica into maneuvering himself in as the presiding Judge for most of the big cases on Watergat…
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Send us a Text Message. The House Judiciary Committee is about to take center stage. In February 1974, the House votes to start the inquiry on Impeachment in ernest. They assign the task to the House Judiciary Committee under its new Chairman Peter Rodino, a little known New Jersey Democrat from Jersey City. He had assumed the position out of senio…
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Send us a Text Message. This is our fifth in our series of shows based on the tapes. This one is a taped conversation between President Richard Nixon and one of his top political advisors Harry Dent Sr, of my home state of South Carolina. Mr. Dent is revered here in my state for all the work he did to build the Republican Party of South Carolina. W…
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Send us a Text Message. Over the years there have been countless stories of the out of control Nixon. That as the pressure mounted President Nixon was not in control of his mental facilities nor his Administration. One such fanciful claim has been repeated about Richard Nixon's decision making during the Yom Kippur War, a full 5 months prior to the…
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Send us a Text Message. Arguably, the most famous story of Watergate, save Richard Nixon's resignation itself, is that of the famous Washington Post secret source, My Friend, Mr. X, or better known thanks to the movie and book "All the President's Men" as Deep Throat. He turned out to be the number 2 man at the FBI, W. Mark Felt. Felt denied it for…
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Send us a Text Message. "A small Justice Department unit of lawyers and investigators, informally known as the "Get-Hoffa Squad," was assembled to uncover and prosecute any unlawful activity within organized labor.'.... Yet Robert Kennedy's campaign against union corruption, and Hoffa in particular, raised questions about the role of an attorney ge…
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Send us a Text Message. American Bar Association Rulebook defines the rules on ex parte meetings "Rule 2.9: Ex Parte Communications: (A) A judge shall not initiate, permit, or consider ex parte communications, or consider other communications made to the judge outside the presence of the parties or their lawyers, concerning a pending* or impending …
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Send us a Text Message. This is our fourth episode looking back on the calls and meetings of April and May of 1973. It is the heart of the Prosecution case against our 37th President. When you listen to these calls , in there entirety, not just snippets, or fragments but all of them. You cannot help but come away realizing just how weak the case ag…
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Send us a Text Message. In our third special tapes series episode we look at various meetings and calls between the President and his staff. Some of these tapes have been spun to make the President look as bad as possible by liberal historians, Special Prosecutors, and liberal media personalities. However, when you listen to these tapes in their en…
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Send us a Text Message. The second in our tape series is another meeting held on April 26, 1973 between the President, Richard Nixon, and his then Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman. In it they try and reconstruct what was discussed in the earlier meeting between themselves and John Dean. The You Tube page "I Tape You Bored" describes this meeting this wa…
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Send us a Text Message. With this episode we will be introducing our tapes series, this is the first of four such episodes in a row. These will be episodes that center on tapes from either meetings or phone calls involving the President and the various Watergate defendants and other Nixon Administration players. These first four episodes center on …
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Send us a Text Message. "Charles W. Colson, the Republican political operative who boasted that he would “walk over my own grandmother” to ensure the reelection of President Richard M. Nixon and went on to found a worldwide prison fellowship ministry after his conversion to evangelical Christianity, ....... Mr. Colson’s reputation as a “dirty trick…
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Send us a Text Message. It's February of 1974 and the Special Prosecutor's Office, the Sinister Force of Watergate, has gone to work to lay down their indictments of those accused of orchestrating the cover up of the Watergate burglary. But they also have fanned out into other areas of interest and zeroed in on targets for no other reason than for …
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Send us a Text Message. This episode begins with a simple statement that says it all about the Watergate Scandal from Nixon Speech Writer Ray Price "We screwed up so badly because we really never knew what we were being accused of" And that was by design. In this episode we look at the radicalization of Leon Jaworski, made largely possible by a tap…
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Send us a Text Message. In this special edition we lay the foundation for much of the story to come. At various times we will be listening in on history and truly examining the tapes of the Richard Nixon Administration. We will be focusing on the time period in which the most question has been raised about President Nixon's personal involvement in …
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Send us a Text Message. In our third episode in our look at the various people whose oral histories we will be focusing on during our next two seasons of shows we leave behind the events of October 1973 and look back on who these people are and how they got to be players in the Watergate Scandal. This episode will concentrate on five people, Henry …
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Send us a Text Message. In this second episode re-chronicling the Saturday Night Massacre a very disturbing picture will begin to emerge about the Watergate Special Prosecutor's office. You will begin to see a pattern of of behaviour where paranoia, arrogance, and an overall belief in the correctness of their cause emerges. That latter shows itself…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we are going to step back to October of 1973. The singular event that changes everything in Watergate was the Saturday Night Massacre. When we originally told the story we did so from the overall perspective of the Nixon White House and the news media that covered it. We travel back in this episode and let yo…
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Send us a Text Message. It is January 1974, and the nation is all a buzz over two missing conversations and an 18 and a half minute gap on subpoenaed tapes from the White House. Judge Sirica has demanded that the tapes all be turned over to him. It is a no win scenario for the White House and for the first time they are losing the public relations …
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Send us a Text Message. This is our second episode where we listen to lectures from Geoff Shepard that deals directly with two of the most important, and frankly, sinister factors that led to the downfall of Richard Nixon. Judge John Sirica, often portrayed as the hero of Watergate, was in fact a known attention seeker with one of the worst records…
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Send us a Text Message. In this first of two episodes, we have culled several important points on the case that Geoff Shepard has laid out in his three books from several lectures he has made that are available on the internet and at his site. The links to which are below. This episode centers on various theories of Watergate that have been out the…
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Send us a Text Message. Who in the World is Geoff Shepard? This show is an attempt to introduce you to him and exactly who he is. We have discussed him at various times in our 1973 episodes but this as an indepth look at who he is and why he is a man of unquestioned stature. I also wanted to put this show together because of my own experience with …
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Send us a Text Message. Our story opens with a look at the conventional wisdom most of America, and the World, holds on Watergate. It is the story of the heroic Special Prosecutors who investigated the heinous crimes of Watergate. The story of a Washington Press Corp determined not to let the sly , crooked , Richard Nixon get away with running his,…
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Send us a Text Message. During our hiatus and just after the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break in we were invited to do an interview on the New York City based talk show podcast "The Alex Garret Show" where for the first time we were interviewed basically just on our podcast show. In it we discuss Richard Nixon , Watergate, how we put the sho…
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Send us a Text Message. THE TRUTH HAS FINALLY COME HOME!! Season 4 Richard Nixon and Watergate, 1974 Through the Fire will take you from the start of the New Year in 1974 through the March 1, 1974 indictments against the defendants in the Watergate Case. One of the 19 people named as an unindicted Co-Conspirator was President Richard Nixon. This is…
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Send us a Text Message. THE TRUTH HAS FINALLY COME HOME!! Season 4 Richard Nixon and Watergate, 1974 Through the Fire will take you from the start of the New Year in 1974 through the March 1, 1974 indictments against the defendants in the Watergate Case. One of the 19 people named as an unindicted Co-Conspirator was President Richard Nixon. He had …
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Send us a Text Message. In our 1973 Enemies at the Gate season finale, we look at the explosive circumstances around the 2 missing calls and an 18 1/2 minute gap on one conversation in the tapes requested by the prosecutor's office. It sets the prosecutors off and the Judge does it all with the maximum of theatrics to insure the spotlight shines br…
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Send us a Text Message. As the year winds down several things are happening at once. Representative Gerald R. Ford begins the process of being confirmed for Vice President. The entire procedure is a first under the new 25th amendment to the Constitution. Ironically, it would be used again in 1974 to confirm Nelson Rockefeller. The process was about…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we bring this historic month to an end. The Israeli's agree to a ceasefire with Egypt and Syria at the behest of our government and negotiated by Henry Kissinger. The ending of the war where it was, would eventually help lead to the Camp David Accords between two of the three countries involved that would com…
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Send us a Text Message. SHOWDOWN!! There was no question that after a junior officer of the Federal Government faced down the President of the United States on National Television that that junior officer was not going to have his job long and Archibald Cox didn't. Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire him. Richardson ref…
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Send us a Text Message. Spiro Agnew resigns on October 10, 1973, the Arab Forces go on another offensive on October 11, 1973 all the while the Special Prosecutor's continue to push forward trying to get their hands on the Presidential recordings. Tom Brokaw of NBC News is right to describe the situation as "Richard Nixon was a President under siege…
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