George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History

Preview of Season 7 " RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE , 1974 Through the Fire"

August 02, 2022 Randal Wallace Season 7
George H.W. Bush 1990 - 1991 The Sweep of History
Preview of Season 7 " RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE , 1974 Through the Fire"
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THE TRUTH HAS FINALLY COME HOME!!

Season 7 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 been the target of the Watergate Special Prosecutors Task Force from the start. 

This is the story of how the President was named, how the defendants were indicted, and the ways those decisions were made. Using oral histories and newly released documents made available to us from the National Archives and organized in three extraordinary books written by Geoff Shepard. Our show will attempt to lay out the case of alleged Prosecutorial Misconduct so extreme that it was hidden from the public by Prosecutors, in various ways for nearly five decades. 

Here you will hear the documents, listen to the stories , and finally catch the prosecutors continuing to present a case, that at least on face value,  appears to be untrue, and the documents they had sealed, or took with them, that were unknown for years, will show it.  

It is not some grand conspiracy, as we so often feel we need to make up to explain such enormous , monumentally,  historical events, like the removal of a President who had just won a 49 State landslide. Instead what it appears we have here is a basic case of alleged Prosecutorial Misconduct just like has happened in courtrooms and legal cases all across America. 

By the time our story is through, It will change everything you thought you knew about the fall of President Richard Nixon.

We start the season August 9, and we have two special editions:  an interview with our host on Watergate on  August 4, and a special on "The President's Man Dwight Chapin" on August 7

*** To see the documents we are using we invite you to go to the following website

ShepardonWatergate.com 



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The case laid out by Hugh Hewitt and Geoff Shepard
Dwight Chapin quote about John Dean
Host Randal Wallace wants you to play the Uncorroborated game
Segment featuring Richard Ben Veniste after CNN aired an episode of the documentary "Tricky Dick"
Jill Wine Banks on The Washington Journal from C-Span
John Dean discussing hiring G. Gordon Liddy on March 23, 1973 White House recording
Dwight Chapin discussing the White House tapes in an interview with the Washington Post
Interview with Richard Nixon by Barbara Walters for the Television program 20/20 on ABC Network
Tape recording of a call between President Richard Nixon and Criminal Division Director of the Justice Department Henry Petersen
Host Randal Wallace introduces the season series
quote from Historian Richard Reeves

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