The Richard Nixon Experience

Send a text In this episode we simply relive this unfathomable moment in history.  Not only the resignation of an elected President of the United States, but the resignation of arguably one of the greatest in the history of the country.  In this episode we tune in to the live coverage of the time from the three networks then in existence, CBS News, ABC News, and NBC News. They will interview many...

Send a text In this episode, the Smoking Gun Tape has pulled the rug out from under  President Nixon and now he is being urged to resign by even his most loyal defenders.  However, his family unanimously urged him to fight on. It is in this final emotional week that President Nixon goes back and forth about what to do. The President himself seems to have already come to the decision to resign, whi...

Send a text Finally, the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee cast its vote on the Articles of Impeachment. It is an emotional vote for the congressmen who were thrust into history and  totally unprepared for the experience.  They did their best they felt, and cast the vote they had to cast.  It was strangely an unemotional moment for the President himself.  Richard Nixon, wo...

Send a text This episode opens with President Richard Nixon's March 1974 visit to the Grand Ole Opry.  Nixon was there to open the brand new Opry House on its first night after moving from downtown Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. It is a symbol of the one section of the country that never wavered, as President Nixon's problems mounted. In the South, we don't cut and run, especial...

Send a text Here is a preview of an extraordinary week of shows that will bring us to the end of the Administration of Richard Nixon.  Over this five days we will relive the emotional week between the the time the Smoking Gun becomes public and the President's resignation.  You will be able to relive through news coverage and oral histories the emotions of the historic week that will end with...

Send a text This episode is an in-depth look at the House Judiciary committee itself as they went through the work of deciding whether or not they should impeach a President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors for the first time in 106 years. In this show you will hear the memories of each of the members and staffers of the committee we selected. They will go in-depth to recall t...

Send a text 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 examples of leadership he has seen up-close.  The book is titled...

Send a text 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 after the Cuban Missile Crisis at the beginning of...

Send a text 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 President Nixon was busy there his confidant , Dr. Henry Ki...

Send a text 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,” warning that U.S. military weakness invites ag...

Send a text 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. 

Send a text 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 presentation. He had worked in the Solicitor General...

Send a text 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. 

Send a text 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 hours long. Way to long for most people to even want to liste...

Send a text 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 order which led to a small error in a show that aired earlie...

Send a text 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 of Executive Privilege.  We will take both a scholarly look a...

Send a text 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 from the members of a quiet coalition of southern Democrats all o...

Send a text 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 gathered by the Senate Watergate Committee and the Special Prosec...

Send a text 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 and illustrious careers. We also chose three members of the sta...

Send a text 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 money to Howard Hunt. They laid out a convincing case....

Send a text 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 with the facts of the case. We will go back through: - Wh...

Send a text 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 historic figures, Jill Wine Banks and Geoff Shepard,  who will f...

Send a text 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 Twitter at those times as well. In the hour provided betwee...

Send a text 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 team, Geoff Shepard, on live television.  We will go over all of...

Send a text 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 provided by the good folks at C-Span to kick off the sea...