The Richard Nixon Experience
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 youngest Watergate Defense team member, petitioned the National Archives for access to sealed Watergate materials. What he found was a treasure of exculpatory material that has sent shock waves throughout the world of serious historians and legal scholars. Was there more to the story of Watergate? The documentation he exposed certainly seems to say so and that is not the only area where scholars are finding that there was way more to Richard Nixon's tenure than had ever been appreciated.
Richard Nixon worked to protect civil rights, advance women in government, protect the environment, set new higher standards for workforce safety, share revenues with local government, restructure the inner workings of the Federal Government, with plans to make it work more efficiently and more effectively and he even worked to provide a better healthcare and welfare system some 40 years ahead of his time. He opened up women's sports, lowered the voting age, ushered in an era of Judicial restraint, desegregated the Southern School system, poured millions into entrepreneurial programs for minorities, passed tough laws on organized crime, ended the draft and passed billions of dollars into cancer research that has led to most of the advances against the wide variety of deadly diseases we see today.
And that list does not even get into the Foreign Policy achievements we associate with his incredible five and a half years as President.
We thought it was time to tell that story and over the next year and half we will tell that story on this podcast. The story of the experience of a nation, at war in Vietnam, and often under siege, and at war with itself, here at home. An experience that created a great gash in the body politic that we are still healing from today. It is the story of the man who saved our Union from the growing disaster an upheaval experienced in this era.
The story of the experience of a nation as it wrestled with titanic changes in culture, the experience of a nation ripped from its foundations, and the experience of the historic leader that set that nation back on course to its rightful place as the beacon of light for freedom and prosperity to a troubled world . The experience of the late 1960's and early 1970's, the experience of the most divisive era in American history, other than the Civil War, the experience of the United States of America and the leader who fixed it all.
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The Richard Nixon Experience
The Exculpatory Tapes - Hear them here for the first time ( Special Edition)
In this short, special edition broadcast, we give you a taste of some of the exculpatory materials we are going to be delving into over the next two seasons as we look back at Watergate.
These two snippets were tapes that we discovered as we were researching this project in 2022. They did, however , come to light after we had gotten to far along in the process to incorporate them into the then storyline of our podcast. Both would have fit in right about where we are now and so I thought this short special edition would fit in at this point after we highlighted the earlier phone call between Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen and President Richard Nixon.
In our previous episode we let you hear Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen updating the President on what was going on at that moment in time. These snippets of a later set of calls allow you to hear Richard Nixon's reactions to the information he has been given.
These calls are stunningly clear, and also stunningly clear in their opposition to the running narrative that Richard Nixon was trying to cover up the burglary from the start. If anything, they show a President eager to get the honest truth out and into the public. While these are among the clearest of any tapes out there of Nixon working to find the truth and expose it, they are not the only tapes that show that. We will be allowing you to hear them, often in there entirety throughout our highly acclaimed series and we hope, with this special edition, we wet your appetite for the truth, as we begin our 6 month journey back through Watergate on this the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nixon Administration.
