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Send us Fan Mail 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. While I did not know Mr. Dent I did meet him many years ag...

Send us Fan Mail 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 seniority after Elizabeth Holtzman's upset victory had un...

Send us Fan Mail An energy crisis, inflation crisis, problems in the Middle East & with Russia and a growing scandal. Sounds like headlines from today doesn't it? 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 faculties nor his Administration. One such fanciful claim has been repea...

Send us Fan Mail 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 decades even though he was among th...

Send us Fan Mail "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 general in prosecuting crimes. The...

Send us Fan Mail 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 matter,* except as follows: (1) When circumstances r...

Send us Fan Mail On this day when the world says farewell to Queen Elizabeth 2nd, we thought we would pay tribute to her in a uniquely focused way. We will look back fondly on her relationship with the United States of America.  Queen Elizabeth has been the one constant in an ever changing world. Through all of that change, and 14 American Presidents, Queen Elizabeth has reigned with desire to mai...

Send us Fan Mail 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 against the President and his upper staff really was. It w...

Send us Fan Mail 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 there entirety  I would argue they paint an entirely different p...

Send us Fan Mail 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 way "A conversation between Nixon and his to...

Send us Fan Mail 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 the most damning of the Watergate tapes involving the Pr...

Send us Fan Mail There was absolutely no one else on Earth with the stature, respect, influence, and as beloved as Queen Elizabeth 2nd.  She was the last major figure left who had served in some capacity during World War 2. She had been on the thrown of Great Britain for  70 years. To put that into some perspective when she became the Monarch of England and the Commonwealth of nations, Harry Truma...

Send us Fan Mail "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 tricks artist” overshadowed his achievements as a darkly...

Send us Fan Mail 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 the effective leadership they have provided fo...

Send us Fan Mail 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 tape of President Nixon giving advice to Bob Halde...

Send us Fan Mail 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 the cover up of the Watergate burglary.  After his &...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Ruth, Jill Wine Banks, Richard Ben Veniste , Alexande...

Send us Fan Mail 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  behaviour where paranoia, arrogance, and an overall belief in the correctness of their cause emerges. That latter shows itself in decisions that get made where they themselves are...

Send us Fan Mail   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 you hear the story from the oral histories of the members...

Send us Fan Mail 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 war.  The gap would be one of the enduring mysteries of W...

Send us Fan Mail 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 of any Judge on the D.C. Court. He was famous for disre...

Send us Fan Mail 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 there for a number of years, the role of Senator Ted Kenne...

Send us Fan Mail Who in the World is Geoff Shepard? This show is an attempt to introduce you to him and get to know exactly who he is. We have discussed him at various times in our 1973 episodes but this as an in-depth 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 coming to learn about this man and his work...

Send us Fan Mail Our Season 7 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, as Dan Rather called it, "crime syndicate&...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  This is the story of how the President was named, how the defen...