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Send us Fan Mail "The White House counsel is a senior staff appointee of the president of the United States whose role is to advise the president on all legal issues concerning the president and their administration. The Office of Counsel to the President and Vice President was created in 1943, and is responsible for advising on all legal aspects of policy questions; legal issues arising in c...

Send us Fan Mail If our last episode was one of the saddest we will ever cover on our podcast, this was one of the happiest. On May 24, 1973, underneath an enormous tent on the grounds of the White House, the largest state dinner and event ever held occured in honor of the Vietnam Prisoners of War.  It was a star-studded event.  Bob Hope hosted with guests the New Christy Minstrels, Phyllis Diller...

Send us Fan Mail “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Have we created Frankenstein's Monster? FOX News Founder Roger Ailes st...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we get to listen in on what was probably the most agonizing and personally painful decisions that President Nixon had to make, save decisions involving the war in Vietnam. It was during these days that Nixon had to finally step up and force the resignations of two of his closest aids and confidantes, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.  Two men who h...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we hear the President on the phone with the Deputy Attorney General, Henry Petersen. Petersen is a man whose name we have heard a lot as the early events unfold. He would come under fire for simply doing his job and informing the President of the United States of events occuring in the scandal as they unfolded. This is one of the calls he made to let President Nixo...

Send us Fan Mail After the pandamonium of the James McCord letter dies down inside the courtroom it becomes very clear that Watergate is now an entirely new ballgame.  In this episode we see events move swiftly as the White House Counsel , John Dean, starts making his overtures to the prosecutors trying to cut a deal that will get him immunity. You can also see how off guard the other players are...

Send us Fan Mail This is arguably the most important episode of the series and these events we will be revisiting through out the scandal of Watergate.  Up to this week, Richard Nixon had never been dealt with completely by anyone who was intimately involved in the Watergate debacle now on the verge of consuming his Presidency.  That includes his Counsel to the President, John Dean. It is in the e...

Send us Fan Mail Now we move back to February 1973. Judge Sirica, always trying to insure his place in the sun, asks the Congress to investigate. The Senate happily complies, originally under the guidance of an enthusiastic Senator, named Ted Kennedy.  There would be a fight about how the investigation would be handled, and what they would be looking into, and a partisan nearly straight party 77 -...

Send us Fan Mail On May 27, 1923, in Furth, Germany, a child was born who would grow up to be one of, if not the most important diplomats in the history of the planet.  Heinz Alfred Kissinger, who today turns 99 years old,  an immigrant who  would grow up to be an  American citizen, who would get America, his adopted land, out of one of the most protracted, divisive, wars in our history,  who woul...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we step back to the events in question. The actual burglary on June 17, 1972. You will get to hear oral histories from G. Gordon Liddy, John Dean and several other players in the events of that night and days afterword.  We will also use footage from a nearly 30 year old BBC documentary that has interviews with all the major players as they discuss the events in a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we start introducing you to the major characters of the Watergate scandal at its roots.  We start with the guy who masterminded it all, though mastermind may not be the correct description.  G. Gordon Liddy was a former FBI agent, a lawyer, and it seems fantasy espionage agent.  He somehow seems to have bungled his way upwards from a job in the Treasury Department...

Send us Fan Mail In this our third episode of RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE, we have our second part of a look at the journalists who covered Watergate in 1973 and 1974.  Most of them were truly awful, but not all.  In this episode you will hear from journalists, like Dan Rather and David Brinkley, who show a stunning lack of self awareness,  in one case especially where the person actually says the...

Send us Fan Mail *** This episode was divided into two episodes, the second will post tomorrow morning In our second episode of RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE: 1973 Enemies at the Gate , rather than dive right into our storyline we decided to take an in-depth two-part look at those enemies at the gate, or at least the important ally the Democratic Party could count on in their campaign to undermine P...

Send us Fan Mail Our Season 6 Premier and the first in our NIXON and WATERGATE series: This season opens just as the Vietnam War ends for America. Even as the treaty is signed there are still last minute maneuverings that President Nixon and Henry Kissinger have to deal with in order to get our Prisoners of War out of Vietnam. You will listen in on the discussions between the President and his spe...

Send us Fan Mail Its the Summer of 2022 and we are on the verge of the 50th Anniversary of the Watergate Break in.  No better time to look back at the Presidency of Richard Nixon.  So with the help of Hollywood's biggest Summer blockbuster's we thought we would set the stage for our summer to come. As we clear the bar of the shocking untruths, spread by the liberal media elitist sharks,...

Send us Fan Mail Preview for Season 6 , RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE 1973 Enemies at the Gate Protests in the streets, an FBI in full investigation mode, massive leaks coming out of the White House, a Press Corp attempting to undermine the policy initiatives of a President and determined to accuse the President of criminal activity, racism, and questioning his mental stability,  all while that Pres...

Send us Fan Mail It was 10 years ago that we ran for Congress in South Carolina.  At that time we campaigned on three crisis's we felt the nation needed to address.  A Jobs crisis,  a debt crisis, and a crisis of spirit in the nation. For a little while our campaign shocked the South Carolina establishment and we were doing well despite money issues, and a lack of establishment support from e...

Send us Fan Mail The basis of the this podcast when we started it were stories about the relationships of the World War 2 Generation of leaders. The stories of the original podcast episodes were from my book "Always Vote Your Conscience, Don't take it personally and Don't fight the same old battles over and over again". That book was originally going to be a policy book of idea...

Send us Fan Mail From the Richard Nixon Foundation video collection introduction to this speech:  "On January 14, 1971, President Nixon made an appearance at the University of Nebraska to present its football team with a presidential plaque recognizing them as undisputed national champions. The President also took the opportunity to address some of the problems currently facing the Nation, &q...

Send us Fan Mail Each month on "Bridging the Political Gap" we try to provide up to 12 hours of history for our listeners. This month with season 5 ending a little sooner we ended up with an additional 3 hours and 44 minutes. So we put together a few bonus shows that we thought our listeners would enjoy.  Our first bonus show is this one on Richard Nixon the Sports fan. He loved baseball...

Send us Fan Mail Senator Orrin Hatch died on April 23, 2022 at the age of 88. He had just retired in 2019. He was a true giant in the history of the United States Senate and in History. He passed more pieces of legislation than any Senator living at the time of death. He reached across the aisle regularly and found workable solutions to problems even while being one of the Senate's most conse...

Send us Fan Mail As we finish the first half of our series on the Nixon Administration and its place in our much longer series of shows that covered the Vietnam Era, we thought we would preview the events on the way over the next 3 seasons of our show. This is the coverage of the fall of Richard Nixon and the scandal known as Watergate.  It would undermine in the eyes of the American People all he...

Send us Fan Mail Our Season 5 Finale: In this episode we listen in as a nation says farewell to one of its most  larger than life leaders, the former President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. We tune in at his funeral services in Washington D.C. and in Texas.  Then we travel halfway around the world to hear the signing of the Paris Peace accords that would effectively end the Vietnam War...

Send us Fan Mail Dear Listeners, I want to take a moment to say a simple thank you for tuning in to our show. This season "Richard Nixon: 1972 The Foundation of Peace" saw our little Podcast recognized as one of the 60 Best American History Podcasts of 2022 by Feedspot.com . We are enormously proud of that designation and very grateful to all of you for making that happen.    https://blo...

Send us Fan Mail Finally, an agreement seems to be at hand and the war in Vietnam can be brought to an end for America.  No one wanted to see this day more than former President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was a man who never wanted to be a wartime President. He had worked to stall making a decision to enter the war on a massive scale, he had tried all he could to find another solution to the growing is...