If You're Going to Lie, Don't Record It - The Watergate Scandal

Sometimes the best thing you can do is tell the truth. Maybe Richard Nixon should have learnt that in his younger years, as this week on Cheeky Tales Aaron takes us through the scandal that gave us the suffix '-gate'. Listen to all the bad decision after bad decision from a President that led to his resignation.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
July 17th,1972, 53 years ago today.
I love these kind of episodes.
A security guardis doing his usual rounds
inspecting the building he worksin for anything suspicious.
Release day, you muppet!
It's been a while since anythingexciting happened,
but still, he's alertand perceptive.

(00:22):
Despite this,
when he sees some doorswith their locks taped open,
he thinks to himself, gee,that's not very suspicious
and takes the tape offand shuts them again.
Fool me once.
Shame on you.
Fool me twice. Shame on me.
He thinks to himselfa few minutes later
when he sees thatthey've been taped open again.

(00:42):
He calls the policeand sets in motion
a two year investigationthat would shake
the very foundations of politicsin the USA.
This week on Cheeky Tales,we're covering the grand daddy
of all scandals Watergate. Oh!
*John excited noises*

(01:09):
I didn't think it was Watergate.
I think you all thoughtit was going to be a heist.
Because it sounds very familiarto, like,
some sort of bank or art heistthat I've read previously.
I mean, yeah, it's got peoplebreaking in somewhere.
That is one of the keyparts of a heist.
It's similar. Yeah.
Sean seems unimpressed.
No, I was just going to hit
you with ajust a good old fashioned

(01:30):
look.
But I wanted to give you enoughand so you can prepare to.
Geez. It'sonly for one of those early.
It's stylish y minutes in.
What's the time stamp?
So I don't remember toturn it down on the right here.
When the kids are listening.
Yeah, causeI'm not going to edit it.
Just let it go.
I think you've. Foryou go before.
Oh. That's from laziness,not from.

(01:51):
Okay. Yeah.
It's from bone idleness,not from like.
It's actually just listeningto it. It's not even laziness.
It's just listening to itand not noticing.
Like it'sbecause I'm listening to people
that I listen to all the time.And it's not like I ever.
It's not like I ever stopyou guys
swearing in normal life.
Like I'm not like heyBleep yourself please.
We need little buttonswe can break for service.

(02:12):
Like beep beep beep beep beep.
I know what would happen.
I'd belike. And then he was like.
I enjoy like the Matty
Matheson videoswhere they add a beat,
but the beep is not substantialenough to cover anything.
It's just it's just a token.
I like the Count Dracula walk.
The Sesame Street CountDracula beeps.

(02:32):
Oh, you meanwhen they beat him out?
Yeah. They do.
They say like,they beat him saying count.
So I was like,I like to be to sleep.
I heard that.
It's just he's innocent,but it's making him say about.
Right.
Yeah, well,talk about someone who wasn't
innocent and didn't sound great.Yeah.
Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon.
Yeah.
I my exposure to Richard Nixonas a child was Futurama.

(02:55):
It was. Futuramaand the headless body of Spiro.
Agnew. You're right. Yeah.
Was he also the president?
No, he wasn't,
but it was Reagan,I think. Yeah.
So Pearl Harbor?
No. Reagan was in the 80s.
Reagan was that.
Am I thinking of the guyin the wheelchair?
FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

(03:17):
Quite a bit.
Yeah. It was.
Oh, the one beforeTeddy Roosevelt.
There's two Roosevelts.
No no no no, no, I mean.
It was it was Hoover.
The one. That's not in. History.
Hoover was a long time ago.
I know he talking aboutthe one with polio
that didn't want anyone to knowhe had polio. Yeah. Yeah.
So he kept, like, showing upto events in cars and stuff.
Yeah. Yeah.
And, like the. It was FDR.

(03:39):
There you go.
And the like the speech he gaveafter Pearl Harbor.
He's got his leg braces on itand stands off like,
no, I'll do it myself. It'san act of defiance. But yeah.
Anyway,
I don't really know
much about.I'm going to be honest.
I don't really know anythingabout Watergate.
Do you know Richard Nixon'snickname?

(03:59):
You're going to hear it be like.
Oh, yeah, of course.
Probably, yeah.
It's tricky Dick.
But I know it's like it'spop culture references
we've had like
what was the NFL one.
The the like like gaylike what it's spawned.
Yeah.
Watergate is the suffixfor all scandal. Yes.

(04:20):
Spill gate.
When you kept spillingdrinks on the couch.
Was what did Bill Clinton and.
What was that. Called?
Was that did it have a gayname on it? Yeah.
I don't remember what it was.
Secretary.
Gate.
Gate.
Just just for a second.
Think about. Yeah.
Like they were people debating.

(04:43):
They were people.
Debating the presidential.
Like you two people.
Can have two, but. Like.
That's disgusting. Yeah, and.
That was like, late nightnews in the States for ages.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Tell us about
Watergate, boy.
Tell us. Well.

(05:04):
Before I get to Watergate,
you have to understandhow Richard became tricky Dick.
Yeah, right.
I'm going to knock downon a little bit of polling paper
I put in the box,and then you're going to open up
and tell us the story.
Good. That was. That was. Tough.
We're trying to bring that back.
Yeah we're trying to bring thatback okay. Okay. Yeah.
Wasn't a great one.
But for that, I'mgoing to impeach you.

(05:27):
Well. By the way.
Just giving me a.
Whole episode of specificAmerican political events,
which all. Me,I don't be such a hanging, Chad.
They all you.
Does that mean you don't knowthe hanging, Chad? No.
Such a stupidreference. Don't talk. About.
The theelection between Bush and Gore.
The one that was, like, reallyclose.

(05:49):
In Floridathere was a whole bunch of votes
that got discounted because the,
the bit of paper that is stampedout was still hanging there.
So they were like, oh,it doesn't count.
But they call it a hanging Chad.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway,
that's athat's a dated reference.
So we're going to startwhere we always do

(06:10):
in some person's family home.
World War. Two, the 1904 World.
Class. On a boat.
You know.
Interestingly. In World War two.
Interestingly, I didn't puthis birthday in my script for.
Halloween.
Would you mind looking upRichard Nixon's birthday?
What do you got to have a win?
That's
that's a themed episode thatHalloween happens every year.

(06:31):
I know.
But that's why we always start.
Because we always havea Halloween episode.
Just like we always havea Christmas episode.
Even though we're 100%run out of Christmas story.
Well, that's your yearthis year for the Christmas.
The year.
Richard Nixon was born onJanuary the 9th, 1913.
There you go.
So before, oh,in the middle of World War one.
Before it started, before.There you go.

(06:51):
War one was, what, 15 to 1914?
Yeah.
So Richard Nixon never lived
in the time that the Titanicwas on water.
And his middle namewas Milhouse.
Everything's comingup, Milhouse.
He was born to parents Francesand Hannah in a small town
in California.
Francis was a lemon farmerwho unironically.

(07:14):
Why are you guys like this?
You know that?I have to edit that stuff out.
Yeah, I know,but that was funny.
Francis was a lemon farmer whounironically, was always sour.
And as it turns out,lemon isn't exactly the
most profitable of fruits.
I was gonna say,when you think of farmers,
you never, everthink of lemon farming.
But someone has to do it.
We have lemons. Yeah.

(07:37):
That is what it looks likewhen you suck on a lemon.
I love the taste ofjust sucking on a fresh lemon.
Yeah, I love lemons.
And also lemon farming was very,very profitable.
If you are from Sicilyand lived in New York City.
Mafia.
Yeah. Right.
I love. Sicilian. Lemon.
Squeeze some lemon out on youon your fish and chips.
And these eat the lemon.

(07:59):
Not the skin obviously, but
the family were very poorwhile Richard was growing up.
He was laterquoted as saying we were poor,
but the glory of it waswe didn't know it.
Despite being poor,
he seemed to turn into quitethe little nerd reading books,
ran for class presidentand debated his mother,
who was a Quaker,on politics of the day.

(08:21):
This academic flairwould continue through his life,
but unfortunately,it wouldn't all be fun.
Little political debateswith mummy.
When you say mom was a Quaker.
So Quaker was like,It's a type of Christianity.
Right? Okay.
So it's a Protestantform of Christianity.
That's been quite popular
throughout history,
although it seems like it's

(08:41):
a derogatory term for someonethat's scared of something.
It is.
That'swhat they used in World War Two.
It was a term for someonewho's afraid of my combat.
No, he's a Quaker.
Yeah, yeah. In in.
Yeah.
Quakers are people who belongto the Religious Society
of Friends,a historically Protestant
Christianset of denominations. But it,
began to be this way.

(09:05):
Anyway, membersrefer to each other.
And to be like this.
After John 1514, in the Bible.
And originally, othersreferred to themselves
as Quakers becauseof the founder of that movement.
George Fox told a judge to quickbefore the authority of God.
The friends are generally unitedby belief in humans ability
to be guidedby the inward light,
to make witness of Godknown to everyone.
They havetraditionally professed

(09:26):
a priesthood of all believers,
inspiredby the First Epistle of Peter.
Those include thoseof the Evangelical holiness,
traditional Quakerunderstandings of Christianity,
as well as none of these.
All right.So there were religious things.
Okay. Noted.
So theythey actually had an exemption,
from being drafted for the wars.Yeah.
They can'tthey can't fight at all.

(09:48):
Maybe they'll be involvedin conflict. Okay.
So maybe that's wherethe derogatory term comes from.
Comes from. Yeah.
They can't they can't even belike doctors at War. Yeah.
They're participating in warnow. Yeah.
Excommunicated. All right. Yes.
So the lemon farm would go underin 1922, forcing the family
to leave their hometo move to another town.
Richard's younger brother,

(10:09):
Arthur, would die in 1925after a short illness.
And a few years later,his older brother Harold would
die from tuberculosis.
Through all the difficulties,Richard would keep up his good
grades, finishing
second in his classin high school,
even getting offereda scholarship to Harvard.
Unfortunately,family was too poor to send him
to the prestigious school,

(10:29):
so he would insteadgo to a local community
college to try and get himselfa full scholarship.
Eventually, he would be offered
a full scholarshipat Duke University in 1934,
and would graduateto become a lawyer in 1937.
Good job.
They so far survived the 30sand got unscathed.
Yeah, the 30s.
Not, not prominentin this story.

(10:50):
But they do exist,and we do hate them.
It wouldn't get easy from herewith every prestigious law firm
he applied to turning him down.
Largelydue to his moneyless background.
Richard would be forcedto move back to his parents
house,living above their garage,
working in a deadend job in a small law firm.
He wouldhave one positive, though,

(11:10):
as he joined a local community
theater and eventually methis future wife, Thelma Ryan,
when he drove her homeafter rehearsal.
One night,he asked her out on a date,
to which she replied, no,I'm busy.
Undeterred, Richard would begin
a slightly creepy seriesof attempts to woo her

(11:30):
and after hearingthat she enjoyed ice
skating,would learn to ice skate
so that he could accidentallybump into her at the rink,
and generallybeing a bit of a sim
for her over a year beforeshe would agree to a date.
Eventuallythat would be married in 1940
and would move to Washingtonto chase their dreams.
Nixon would take up a position
in the Officeof Price Administration in 1942,

(11:54):
marking his first introductionto working in politics,
which would set the tonefor the rest of his life.
I feel like there's a fine linebetween stalker and persistent.
Yeah, there's a fine linebetween creepy and romantic to.
It's calledcontext tires drop that.
There was a whole episode of howI Met Your Mother about it.
Yeah.

(12:14):
Depends how it's received.
It depends. Has received.
Fair enough.
It's the second time we'vequoted him in this episode.
I believe it is hanging Chadand that.
That's two.
Hanging chads.
Not really a third reference.
That's three.
Hanging chads.
Not really ahow are you doing this.
What are you doing. Slapped him.
It's like bit. Slap. Yeah.

(12:35):
But the slap countfor the slap it.
Well, there's one.
Slap.
Slapping, political life begins,and so do the tricks.
Have fun cuttingthat little rubbish bit out.
I do enjoy cutting out my badjokes.
Yeah, like cut out.
How bad? Yeah. It'snever cut out your own.
The bias is unheard of.
Time to take down the bourgeoischeeky tails.

(12:57):
You know what?
We need to get up and overthrowthis corrupt asshole.
I'm okay.
I'm more than happywith somebody else. Hiding.
On my farm with Ivan's editing.
Sean sounds like he'svolunteering for it.
I'm okay with it.I'll just let you know.
I fine
welcome a new insect overlordsthat will edit the videos.
Okay.
Simpsons references.
Yeah, it's chucking them all in.

(13:17):
Richard Nixon in the Simpsons.
Yes, I know,I know that there was.
There was a whole episode about,
not really about Nixon.
It was about rid.
Was one of the aliens. Nixon.
Like when the aliens tookover, there was.
Clinton and someone else.
Yeah.
And with a two partypreferred system.
Nixon would only last a yearin his new role,

(13:39):
but that was his own choosing.
It was actually four monthsor something.
He had been assignedto responding to correspondents
in the tire rationing division.
Why did you say.
Yeah, yeah,it would just say four months.
I think I was readingtwo different,
sources and one said a year.
And I said,we all said barbecue.

(14:00):
He'd been assigned to responding
to correspondentsin the tire rationing division.
That's my goal.
When I tell a joke just to thatI heard a guy shut up.
And he hated it so muchhe quit after just four months.
There you go.
Within two lines,I say two different things
to join the Navyand fight in World War two.
You might rememberhe was a Quaker.
Well, he had a birthrightto not have to fight. So,

(14:21):
you know,props doing for doing so
while he servedfor the rest of the war,
he would never see combat.
He would serve in the Pacific.
And at two service daysbefore leaving the Navy in 1940.
Six to go back to WorldWar Two and boat, we.
Are back to WorldWar Two and boats.
It always finds a way
life will.

(14:41):
Father, what.
Can we always start?
On his return to civilian lifeafter the war,
a group of Republicansfrom his home town
approached him with an idea
they could use Nixonas a former war veteran
to take down Jerry Voorhis,a five term
Democrat in California'sHouse of Representatives.
A war veteran who did to combatdad Shawn.

(15:03):
Is that really a war veteran?
Technically, yes.
Okay, we'll go on technicalitiesthen.
Despite being consideredsoft on communism,
nobody had been able to takeVoorhis down.
Nobody.
That was until RichardNixon stepped up to the plate.
Nixon would use an interestingtactic outright lying.

(15:23):
Okay, despite the softnesstowards communism, Voris
didn't have any connectionsto the ideology.
But Nixon decided to just lieand say that he did,
madlywaving around a piece of paper
at a townhall meeting that he claimed
proved voicesconnection to the party.
There was, of course,
no evidencethat actually proved anything.
But now the voters had the ideain their heads, and Nixon rode

(15:46):
that idea into office that year.
It was a really big thingin the late 40s,
early 50s, one that like.
All the way up until like that.
You are you're a communisttype of thing.
Yeah. It was a
witch hunt.
Yeah.
I mean, people would just say,like, that guy's communist.
And you were marked.That was it.
And it didn't helpthat there were,
like, quite a lot of communistsrunning around.

(16:08):
But yeah,that's for another day.
This success would set in motion
the tendencies that wouldeventually lead to his downfall.
Nixon was goodat negative campaigning,
so good that he thought he mightjust do it again next time.
After a brief butsuccessful career in the House,
he would run for the Senate.
This time he would really turnthe screws, saying his opponent,

(16:29):
Helen Douglas, was pinkright down to her underwear,
which almost like,
which sounds almost likePrince Charles on the phone,
but is actually referencing hertendency to vote in
line with communists. Okay,
yeah, he's
just referenced in very ickypart of details, Bill.
That's correct.
I'm watching The Crownat the moment with Barry.

(16:49):
Oh, okay.
And we must be gettingpretty close
to the Charles and Camilla bit.
Yeah, yeah. It's me.
I'm pretty sure I know
it's in there, but, like,I keep waiting.
And then I also kind of want.
To watch.
Austin Powers again.
We haven't done that yet.
That thing is like AustinPowers is now
linked to that story for me.
Thanks to our episode,

(17:11):
Nixon'sstaffers would also hand out
documents called Pink Sheets
that made false comparisonsbetween her voting record
and that of a New Yorkcongressman considered by all
to be a communist.
So they weren't like the ancientdetails for not paying cops.
For their cars.
No, they weren't racing superas down at the that drain in LA.
That's in every video ever. No.

(17:34):
Of course.
This worked.
And he became a senator.
He also won the nicknametricky Dick for his tricky
and underhand tacticsduring the campaign.
So that's the first time
that they sort ofcall him tricky Dick.
He's risefrom the poor kid in small town
California was still going in1952.
Dwight Eisenhower would pickNixon to be his running mate,

(17:56):
which would see him entering thenational stage with a splash.
It would almost causehis downfall, though,
as in September,the New York Post was run.
Was running a story describinga secret slush fund taken
from his campaign donationsto fund his lavish lifestyle.
Oh, do you?
In an amazing example of karma.
It wasn't true.

(18:17):
But despite this, Eisenhowertold Nixon to fix it.
Or find a new job.
Oh, it's pretty harsh.
Pretty harsh. Pretty harsh.
I mean, not really.
Like, that's the kind of thingthat.
Like, you kind of got to get.
Accountable for that. Yeah.
I wasn't. Doing it.
It's not harsh at all. Yeah.
He wasn't.
Yeah. He wasn't doing itbut like yeah.

(18:38):
Get your stuff sorted mate.
Get yours.
Keep it in a sock.
Put it in a bag. Same sock.
The same sock. Yeah. Okay.
One sock is the expression.
I've literally never heard thatbefore in my life, either. My.
I've heard.
Put it in a bag.
No. Get.

(19:00):
Unbelievable.
This could be a military thing,Sean. No.
Wait for the wave of commentsthat are like.
Yeah, that's very cold.And say you took the sock. Yeah.
Or the opposite, which is like,what the hell is Sean talking?
I mean, at the moment it's.
60. 6%to 33. So wave of comments.
I predict.
My mum.
Your mum. Yeah.

(19:21):
Yeah.
Put up a great haircuton Instagram the other day.
I had 11 likes. Two of them.
One of them was mum.
One of them was the guythat stands
next to me at the barber shop.So nine.
Nice. Can't.
Thanks, mum.
By the way, an avid.
Listener. Yeah, yeah.
Hi to all our moms.
66% of our mumslisten to this podcast.

(19:41):
My mum doesn't listen. Wow.
That's okay.
Come on, Mrs. Savage.
She doesn't even knowwhat Spotify is.
I reckon she probably would,
but she wouldn't knowhow to use it.
So Nixon would take tothe airwaves in late September
and explained himselfand would make history
as the first political speechtelevised live.
60 million people would watchNixon run through his budget

(20:03):
and finances, making himself
seem like a struggling man,just like the people watching.
An example of the shucksattitude was this quote
Pat doesn't have a mink coat,
but she does have a respectableRepublican Republican cloth
coat, and I always tell her thatshe'd look good in anything.
It's such an awkward thingwhen you say it live.

(20:25):
Okay.
Richard Nixon
not incredibly charismaticin front of the camera.
Because this is the timein history where TV is becoming
a thing, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Like post-World War Two iswhere it was really popular.
Like it started blooming.
Yeah.
He also told a story of oneof the one political donation

(20:46):
that he had keptin his personal life,
a cute dog named checkersthat a supporter had sent him
after hearingthat his kids wanted a dog.
Regardless of what they sayabout it, we're.
Gonna keep it.
Nixon saidat the end of his speech.
A very good impersonation for,
That's that's Futurama.
Futurama? Nixon. Yes.

(21:07):
But the speech would go
I would go on to be knownas the checkers speech.
I hope you just framejust your head
and then maybe put, like,a little gloss.
It would go on to be knownas the checkers
speechand would save his career.
Eisenhower called Nixonand said, you're my boy
from here, Eisenhower.

(21:27):
Nixon would find themselvesin the white House,
and Nixon seemed to be onthe rise still further,
as Vice President,
Nixon didn't
really do
much on the policy side,but he did
spend a lot of timein front of the camera.
He would spend timedealing with protesters,
debating Nikita Khrushchevwhile visiting the USSR,
and eventually spent timerunning the country.
When Eisenhower startedhaving heart attacks

(21:48):
at the end of Eisenhower'stwo years,
two terms, the choicefor the Republican Party
and seemingly for the nationwas clear vote in tricky Dick.
Unfortunately, a tricky dick.
There was a little feller upat the plate for the Democrats.
What happened?
We was trying to do.
We're doing the oppositethat U2 did to me,
which is we're quietly listening

(22:08):
instead of just throwingabsolute garbage downrange
while you try to speak good.
Cuz I'm about to throwsome garbage. I just like you.
Just tricky dickand little fella.
Like he just keeps referencingpenises.
I don't knowwhat you talking about. Okay?
Double entendres.
Is that for a reason?
That's a good one. Later on,if you pick up.
That's a really good one.
That was. Listening.

(22:31):
So there was a little feller upto the plate for the Democrats.
You've probably heard of him.
John F Kennedy.
No. Geez, that's just pennies.
Just dropped the whatyou actually mean, that is.
Yeah, I got it.
That is awful. Absolutely not.

(22:52):
Are you gonna eat it?No, we're not, we're not gonna.
Because I know we'll loseall our American listeners.
No, we're not cutting it
because we've had an entireepisode
dedicated to dolphin Houseand that is the worst thing
that's everbeen said on this podcast.
No it's not.
Yes, it is a reference.
Prince Charles again. But,
No. Tiki torches.

(23:13):
Joe Charles has always saidno to gun violence.
Like maybe I'll just.
Bleep what I said.And that could be for us.
I'm not good.
Like,goodness gracious Lord help. Me.
I'm sorry listeners I think I'm,I think I have to leave
I think I thinkI'm doing differently.
Yeah that's what I dothe rest of the podcast.
But myself.

(23:35):
You know what?
I'm keeping it out of defiance.
No, no, no,this is a Democratic podcast.
It's his own head.
Let him go.
He's gonna do it to himself.
Yeah, we finally got him.It'll be like, let him in.
Like all of us on next episode.It's just me and you like.
Hi, guys.Welcome back to Welcome Back.
And Jim Carrey's going. No. I'm
gonna not Jim Carrey other guy.

(23:56):
Damn it.
Is it really that bad? Yes.
Come on man.You can beep over it.
That's whywe haven't said what it was.
So you have the opportunityto bleep it out okay.
I was really proud of that.
Now you have to play your facesI know lip rage that.
Deep in the voice.
Yeah yeah.

(24:19):
You're going to witnessprotection after that.
We need a full sensor of that.
I'm glad you said it.
It was very funny.
Sure. To save that for us.
Oh there's nothing.
It's thatcheeky tiles off the dock.
Oh, yeah. Oh,take you two hours on censored.
Yeah.
On the Patreon. Feature on the.

(24:40):
On our. OnlyFans.
If you want to know what ionsaid.
Yes. Money.
Okay. I'm.
Take your clubhouse. Oh.
Okay.
So Kennedy had all the charismaand youth on his side
and blew stuffy old Nixonout in the election results.
Nixondidn't see it that way, though.
Turningto his old hatred of money
and blaming the elites forscrewing the little guy again.
Never mind the factthat as a former vice president,

(25:03):
he was now an elite.
Don't worry about that.
Nixonwould return to California,
where he wasconvicted, convicted. Convicted.
He was convinced.That comes later.
He was convinced to runfor governor.
Actually didn't come later.
That's part of scandal.
In another bitter defeat,he lost the gubernatorial race
by a large margin.
And yes, that's the actual word

(25:25):
for how you describe the racefor governor.
It's the. Gubernatorial race.
The the. Gubernatorial.
Been a gub. Not.
So our ArnoldSchwarzenegger won.
The gubernatorial. Even.Natori. Yes.
No, Schwartz won the goob.
I'd like to hear him say whathe won the gubernatorial.

(25:47):
I, I know what the gubernatorial
show is. Loving that. And yes.
Come on.
You want to give us your Arnieimpersonation?
No, no.
Now, the out.
Get to the jobpassion. That's better.
Yours is Christopher. Walken.
Hey, I'm what it is.I mean, what do you do?

(26:08):
The governor told.
Come on, do it.
I'm right here.
Come on, do it. I'm ready.
That's John Travolta.
Stick it.
Pick boy.
You pickone person to impersonate.
Just stick with.

(26:29):
Know who's the other onethat you do?
You do a Kennedy.
Yeah, you do a Kennedy.
I did do a Kennedy. Kennedy.
And you were very excited, much.
Like Marilyn Monroe.
All right, that's it.
I'm adopting musicianin this on this podcast.
Officially the moderator.

(26:50):
I ain't goingyou on. I got one for you
guys.
I'm sorry.
To the Kennedy family.
Oh. Oh, it's been looking my.

(27:17):
Just it's so.
Oh, you crossedover the islands.
So that's all that's goingto happen is there's just going.
To be Bleep.
You take
there's just going to be likeat least two minutes of just
a still shot of melike this with.
With like the technicaldifficulties stripes.
Oh sorry.
Take Charles moderatorhas stepped in I'm sorry.

(27:37):
No that wasthat was the low hanging fruit
that one I had to take.
It was, okay.
So back to the story. So.
Yeah, if you want to, you wantto find out if you back to.
The gubernatorial.
Find out what was said.
It's on the poetry. Area.
By us. 999 a month.
And you can hearwhat awful things we said.
The best jokes in the podcast.
Out of this 999 a month thing.

(27:57):
Just two bucks to hear eachclip, two bucks
if you want to hear thatspecific bit. Two bucks a clip.
Nobody's paying that.
Well, no one's going to pay
nine, nine, 99 a monthfor something
that we upload at onceevery like.
Twice a month. Typically
every episode.
We going to always say somethinginappropriate.
We can cancel.
We we.

(28:18):
Definitely can't change that.Yeah.
So Nixon would take his defeatin the gubernatorial race
very bitterlysaying in a press conference,
you won't have Richard Nixonto kick around anymore.
Because, gentlemen, this ismy last press conference.
Nixon had quit politicsand spent the next years of,

(28:39):
growing a successful law firmthat would make him rich
for the first time in history.
You can. It's like growing lemontrees, growing lemon trees.
Like his dad before him.
But, It's not over yet.
The phoenix rises from the air.
Good, good.
Yeah. Good analogy. Boy.
Thank you.
Wall.
He had made his bigannouncement.

(28:59):
Nixon would spend the nexteight years,
making himselfappear the elder statesman,
making observationson the political landscape
and lining himself upfor another run.
Ronald Reaganwould be trying to land himself
the Republican nomination,
but Nixon would be in thebackground, quietly making sure
the Republicans that matteredwere already on his side.
By the time the nominationwas voted on in 1968,

(29:22):
he was already well aheadand won the nomination.
The 1968 election was a messfor the Democratic Party.
I just wroteanother word for it.
We believed in Johnson.
Refusing to run
and Bobby Kennedy doing his best
impression of his brother John.
The Republicanshad an easier, you know.

(29:43):
No, no.
Bobby Kennedy. Oh, no.
You know.
Take your towels.
Moderator says KnowBobby Kennedy for that one.
Time was also he. Was.
I'm editing. They said that.
We can say he was assassinated.
Yeah, we can,but we're cutting his jokes.

(30:05):
We're cutting his aninappropriate joke from before.
And you pronounced LyndonJohnson's name wrong.
It's Lyndon Baines Johnson.Everyone knows that.
Whatever. All the way with LBJ.
I was very keento get my next joke out.
So because of all this.
Nonsense going on,
the Republicans had an easyrock,
easy ride to the white House,and tricky Dick
would find himself in the officewith no corners.

(30:27):
Well done.
The Nixon era had begun.
From. Paul Lemon, farmer.
To oh,he never even got to farm the.
Limits. No,but he to Oval Office.
From poll booknerd to Oval Office.
Good job.
Yeah. Richard. Well,what do you reckon.
They do with, like,the extra space
outside of the Oval Office
that the cornerswould normally take? Like that.

(30:49):
That would be such an awkwardspace around it. Okay.
Cheeky excursion.
Let's go to the white House.Check it out.
That's going to be
a Cheeky Tales supplementaryreel where producer Sean.
Goes to the white House.
Deep dives something specificin 30s and 60s.
I know that
like the white House
is obviouslya really old building,
so they have like printersin the toilets and stuff

(31:09):
because I can't findanywhere else to put them.
Sean Sean downloadsthe white House plans
and then gets FBI raided.
Sean, who's donea lot of reading
on the curiositiesof the white House in the past
because I like architecture.
Well, attempt to edit
and do a deep dive videowith maps and things.
If, Sean moves out the way
I've got the Legowhite House, right?
That doesn't help.
Please, pleasereference Rick and Morty

(31:30):
and that because I often
visit the white House, I'mnot sure I do.
Can you even tell me which wingthe Oval Office is in?
It's in the East wing,isn't it? Almost.
So we'll get on with that.
Okay.
There's a whole TV show thattells you what wing getting.
Perfect.
I thought
the West Wing was like,where the defense forces were.
The defense forces arenot within the white House.

(31:51):
Like this people.
They're from the Defense Force.
They're at the. Pentagon.The Pentagon.
They're not all.At the Pentagon.
They're that the. Pentagon.
They're at the Pentagon.
Isn't that why the show iscalled the West Wing?
Because that's likewhere the countries run from.
We'll get into it.
Okay?
We'll get into it now.
Supplemental episodeon the white House. So.
He's just won the presidency.

(32:13):
The white House.
President, Richard.
Tricky Dick, Richard.
M Nixon.
Was right.
He did do that. Did itthis year?
Yeah. When did he do that?
He'll get to it.
Nixon would be presidentwhen man landed on the moon.
Ooh. Talking to Neil. And.

(32:34):
Talking to Neil and.
Buzz hitting the white Housedays.
Moderator says.
Yes, that's that's days.
But your jokes. No, I'm sorry,I stole it.
Now that's that's our joke.
We've been doing that for ages.
I still want to do theconspiracy debunking episode.
Then do. It. It's too late.
Well.
Too long.
It needs someone to come upwith all the conspiracies,

(32:56):
becausethat was the whole point.
Okay, well, maybe it was you.
I can tell you it was John.It wasn't me. It wasn't me.
I believe in the slap.
Doug wasn't on the scene backthen.
Yes, I think he wanted to do itand have me.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway,you write the conspiracies
or are you meant to
just not know ahead of timeand debunk them from your head?
I mean, I could probably.
Debunkmost of them top of my head.

(33:16):
Okay. But,
I guess if I know about thembeforehand, then it seems a bit
dodgy, doesn't it? Correct.
Anyway, yeah.
But then again,who am I trying to prove it to?
Come on, do your own research.
The most. That'swhy we're a podcast.
I get to throw that at youthis time, trying to prove it to
the listeners.
Okay, maybe the listeners can

(33:37):
submit their conspiraciesabout the moon.
Nixon would make great stridesin the area of ideas.
That's it's made of cheese.
We literally found outlast week.
That at last night's. Cheese.
We've been playing the hellout of a VR golf game.
Putt putt game, I should say.
It is dope.
It sounds stupid.
And then you play it.It's amazing.

(33:59):
More importantly,if you're listening to this
and you haven't seen Wallaceand Gromit,
go to watch it.
Yeah, get it together.
I haven't seen Wallaceand Gromit.
Okay.
John's going to have to goand do some research.
Welcome back to Cheeky Tales,Aaron.
Just.
Welcome back to Wallaceand Gromit tales.
Two of us. Oh,so I get kicked out for that?

(34:22):
He doesn't get creditfor what he said.
He's kicked out.
He's 100% kicked out.
Welcome back to Cheeky Tales.
It's just Sean. Just continuity.
Yeah I am. Yeah.
My hostile takeoverbegin. It's Sean tails.
Oh, I've accidentallyoff my email program.
What am I doing?
Get out of here.

(34:54):
So he was presidentwhen me landed on the moon.
And he spoke with BuzzAldrin and Neil Armstrong.
Amazing that, you know,Buzz Aldrin and not Armstrong.
That's crazy.I was getting there.
Oh, which is leadingyou back into your story?
Well, you name would have,
like, was earlieron the list of people
that were at the Hollywood setwhen they filmed it.
It was alien.

(35:14):
The course is the only onthe coast.
Yeah.
Security camera securitytag was first.
Nixon would make great stridesin the era of desegregation,
created the EnvironmentalProtection Agency.
It was a staunchsupporter of women's rights
and helped open upChina to the world.
Yeah, right.
Considering all that happenedwith him afterwards,
it's mostly lost to history.
He made so many greatcontribution. Oh. Good things.

(35:36):
Yeah, he.
Actuallywas a pretty progressive.
Yeah. President. President.
Especially for a Republican.
So it's kind of sadthat everything went, you know,
I over t,
thank himafter that attack of time.
Yep. That's what I meant.
Despite all the success,Nixon was still paranoid

(35:57):
with his background.
He always believedthat big money was against him
and that he had to do anythinghe could to stop them.
A big Pharma, I have to get you.
As we've already seen,he wasn't above dirty tricks.
And so leading,leading into the 1972
election, he would set in motionhis own fall from grace,
all with the help of someplumbers.

(36:19):
It's a me massive scandal.
Wow. You know, I saw somethingearlier today that was like,
oh, Luigi is voted the sexiestby Mario Cash.
By women? Yes.I didn't say that.
The lie.
It's clearly Waluigi,but not egg.

(36:39):
Egg warning Jones got a Jonesgot the hots for Donkey Kong.
I'm a toad man myself.
No, no, no,that little dude in the cloud.
What's his name?
Look like it too? Yeah, yeah.
When you drive off the MarioKart,
I'll just drive off purposelyso you pick him up all the time.
Pick me up, daddy.

(36:59):
I'm looking at you,and I'm waiting for the
things.
Really kicked offfor Nixon on June 13th, 1971,
when The New York Timespublished the Pentagon Papers,
which were leaked documentsfrom the white House laying bare
the atrocities
that the Americanshad been committing in Vietnam.
None of the papers released camefrom Nixon's administration,

(37:19):
but he was still blown awayby the fact
that there were so many leaks.
This is when he formedthe white House plumbers,
a top secret groupdedicated to fixing
the leaks in the white House.So not actual plumbers,
metaphorical plumbers.
Yeah, right. Okay.
When you said plumbers earlier,
I assumed, like, plungerin hand and lodge shifter.
No, no, they were fixing leaks.

(37:40):
Okay.
But not water leak.
No information.
Data leaks yet.
They would use pretty shadytactics to achieve this goal.
Spying, sabotage and break ins.
First up,
they broke into the office
of the psychologistwho treated the person
who leaked the documentsto the New York Times.
But it wouldn't stop there.

(38:01):
In 1972,Nixon was up for reelection
and was most likely facinga man named Edward Muskie.
That would change the filteron the Britain.
He got a British filter,an ego change.
Now you got to change these.
Thingsonce every couple of months.
You know, you can'tlet him get style correct.
That reminds me.
I need to change the waterfilter in my, coffee machine.
You are welcome. Thank you.

(38:22):
Muskie was in the middleof the primary battle
to get nominationfrom his party,
and suddenly weirdthings started happening.
White voters startedgetting calls at 2 a.m.
from people
reporting to be black votersharassing them to vote Muskie.
Sean, can you say that?
Sorry. What?
He wasn't listening.
Are you playing Doodle Jump?

(38:44):
No, I'm trying to.
I'm waiting. Now.
I just said, okay.
I'm waiting for several errors,
which I'm sureare bound to happen soon
or jumps overimportant information.
Problemis, listeners and viewers,
I've got my iPad stand,so I'm doing these ones.
Using the. Old.
Don't act.

(39:05):
I gave you that.
Don't use it against me.
Okay?
I'm going to wild.
Conspiracy theoriesabout other candidates
printed on muskie stationery
started appearing in people'sletterboxes.
Of course.
This wasn't coming from Muskie.
It was comingfrom another group,
the Campaignto Reelect the President.
The plumbers or creepas they had been, come to me.

(39:27):
You know, I'm a creep now.That's not how that change goes.
I'm a creep.
Yeah.
And agree, I think I said
they would succeed.
And Muskie campaign burned outafter the shady actions.
So you've got the white Houseplumbers
and you've got crate
and there's like quite a lot ofVenn diagram crossover in that.
Okay.

(39:48):
So the, the plumbersa kind of there to like
stop informationleaking and creeps there to like
try and get him reelected,get information out.
Well, folks, information out.
Yeah.
Kind of it was more.
They were just doing stuffto try and get him reelected.
Sure.
And it started off pretty dodgyand it just continued
getting dodgy. Sure.

(40:08):
Creep.
We're not done, though,
and we're about to set in motionthe campaign intelligence plan
that they had been working onfor a year,
had been planning since Januaryto break into
the Democratic Party officesin the Watergate complex
in Washington, to take photosof documents and tap the phones.
Notable members of the plotincluded Howard Hunt,
a CIA intelligence officer

(40:29):
who was also part of the whiteHouse plumbers, and FBI agent.
Gordon Liddy, another plumberwho worked for John Erlichman,
who himself was a white Housecounsel to Nixon.
Former FBI agent Alfred Baldwin
was assigned to carry outthe first break in during May,
and after booking a hotel acrossthe street, would break in

(40:50):
with a team and installlistening devices into phones.
The break inwas successful, and they would
then record the conversations
going on in the officeover the coming months.
Unfortunately,
the equipment startedto break down and a second break
in was
required to fix the equipmentand take more photographs.
June 17th was the date scheduledfor the second break in,

(41:10):
and a team of five menwere put together
Virgilio Gonzalez,
Bernard Baker, Barca, Barca,
James McCord,
Ingenio Martinezand Frank Sturgis,
with Alfred Baldwin againworking as a spotter
across the street in a hotel.
That is some names,none that I recognize.

(41:32):
A lot of them were like formerCuban exiles or.
Okay,
there's a lot of at this point,a lot of stuff like this
was done with Cubansbecause it was like,
oh, well, if they get caught,you can say it was Cuba.
Yeah. Like.
Yeah, after the Cold War.
Yeah. Well, the Bay of pigs,it happened a little while ago.
The Cuban MissileCrisis type of thing. Yeah.
Now it's still trying to getrid of, Castro.

(41:53):
All right.
He's become up
before in the hijacking episodeone, where people would fly.
Yeah, they'd want to keep him.Yeah.
Didn't he meet one of the planeson the runway? Yes.
I think our home orsomething about that. Yeah.
He shows up a lot in this, like,era of American politics.
Yeah, yeah.
Now, obviously we know whathappened with security guard

(42:14):
Frank Willis noticing the tapeand calling the police,
so they'd, like, taped thethe locks.
So the door could shut,but it wouldn't lock.
But a funny side note to thisis that the spotter,
Alfred Baldwin, didn't noticethe police arriving
because he was too distractedwatching a movie on TV
called attack of the PuppetPeople.
Yeah, well, good job, Martin.
It wasn't until the policewere investigating

(42:36):
the officers themselves beforehe noticed and radioed the team.
Literally one job.
Yeah.
All you have to do is watch.One job.
And he's too busy watchingattack of the puppet people.
Watching the wrong thing.
And he's, like,sitting there like.
He doesn'teven sound like a great movie.
No, it was like a noir horrorfilm, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway,he then looks out the window
and he's like, oh, there'speople in the offices with them.

(42:58):
They're like,you know, couple officers over
and he's like, oh,I get out of there.
But it was toolate. They had been caught.
The men would be charged with
attempted burglaryand attempted interception
of telephoneand other communications.
After a trial in late1972 and early
1973, the five men,along with two other organizers,
would be convicted on January30th of 1973.

(43:21):
Almost immediatelyafter the break in,
the white House and CIA startedcover up activities.
That doesn't happen.
The FBI had discoveredvery quickly
that Howard Hunt and Gordon
Liddy Liddy were connectedto the now arrested burglars.
And with that, John Erlichman,
would order other staffin the white House

(43:41):
to destroy evidencein Hunt's safe and in the white,
in the white House.
So the guythat's like a consult to Nixon,
he is that the FBI'sfound these guys names,
and he's like, oh,they're connected to me.
I'm connected to Nixon.
Burn all their stuffin that safe place. Yeah.
So immediatelystarting the cover.
Up, it's also like a snakeeating its own tire, right.
The the two agenciesyou would think

(44:02):
that would investigatethis kind of thing are involved.
Yeah.
Well, the
FBI wasn't really like the FBIas a whole.
Former FBI agents.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Nixon was advisedof the breaking and arrest.
And while it's believedhe didn't have any knowledge
that it was taking place,he certainly do.
It didn't do himself any favorsby ordering the CIA to block

(44:22):
the FBI'sinvestigation into the burglary.
So he gets the CIAand he's like, hey,
stop him looking at that.
And so they're tryingto investigate it.
And CIAis like working against them.
So they've already got thisweird thing happening
in the government.
Nixon's press secretarywould label the Break-In
as a third rateburglary attempt.

(44:43):
And Nixon himself claimed that,one of his white House
counsel's had completely
completeda thorough investigation
and stated,I can say categorically that
no one in the white House staff,no one in this administration
presently employed, was involvedin this very bizarre incident.
Obviously, no such investigationhad taken place.

(45:03):
The WashingtonPost just won't let it go.
While Nixon obviously thoughtthat he would be able to cover
this up,there were two journalists
that wouldn't let the case goBob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
They would almost immediatelydiscover
the members of the burglary teamthat were paid by creep
and would spendthe summer months rotting
and publishing multiple stories,uncovering

(45:24):
creeps, misdeeds and the money
funneling from Nixon's teamto the burglars.
Woodward and Bernsteinwould rely heavily on anonymous
sources, most notably on onethey named Deep Throat.
Nothing funny about that.
Through Deep.
Throat, through.
Deep Throat and other sources,they were able to uncover

(45:46):
not just creeps involvement,
but the involvement of membersof the CIA, the FBI, CIA, and
the white House.
Are you getting that?
But it's tricky.
Dick connected to Deep Throat.
Actually, yes,because Deep Throat
turned out to be like the formerdeputy of the
the deputy director of the FBI.
He was, like,the second in command.
Right. Okay. Yeah.

(46:07):
And, you know, like the trope ofof meeting people in, like,
dark undergroundcar parks and stuff like that,
that, that these were.
Like. Hand off papers.This is where. That came from.
Yeah.So Deep Throat would meet. The.
Two journalists in this carpark in Washington
and, yeah,that's where this came from.
None of none of theinvestigations

(46:28):
seem to matter, though,
partly due to other membersof the media failing
to give enough creditto the scoops,
but also due to the relentlessbashing of the Washington
Post by Nixon, the white House,
other newspapers would failto report on the scoops
that the post was finding,but would report
on the White House's denials.
So the post had put outan article.
Nobody else would pick it upand run with it,
but then the white Housewould be like, hey,

(46:49):
this is all nonsense.
Here's why they would post that.
Yeah, and then the newspaperswould pick that up. Yeah, yeah.
So if they
didn't do anything good,probably would've.
Yeah, probably.
If they didn't
bring attention to itthemselves,
they probably probablywould have. Yeah.
Well it's important to know
Nixon didn't actually knowthat this was happening. True.
Like hehe didn't know till afterwards.

(47:12):
Yeah.
Due to the campaignby the white House and the CIA,
the public wouldn't be givingWatergate much attention.
With Nixonwinning the 1972 election
with one of the biggest marginsever recorded.
So in the middle of all this,he goes and wins an election.
It's like the third biggestwinning margin ever.
Second term. Yeah,
yeah, I think it was like FDRand Ronald Reagan.

(47:34):
I like the only twothat had bigger wins.
Make senseafter like all the stuff
you went through earlier this,
what are you implementedlike the API,
the segregation stuffand all that.
Like I think he also endedVietnam in the middle of this.
So like we said earlier,you're doing good work.
Yeah. It makes sensethat he would get reelected.
Yeah.
Like from
all and

(47:54):
for all intents and purposeshe was
actually not a bad president.
He just did the dumbest thingyou could possibly do.
Yeah.
So with Dick back in it seemedthat all was well for Nixon.
But behind the scenes,the relentless investigation
by the Washington Postwas started to have an effect,
as was the plea dealsbeing given
to the seven menconvicted in the burglary.
That was the one I said I snuck.

(48:16):
In before theoh yeah, I hope you get it.
Yeah, it was pretty obvious.
Boy, it's like dog bones.
So I loved it.
All seven of the convictedmen would eventually turn heel
and start spilling the beans.
On the involvement of creep,
the plumbers,and of the white House.
Other media outlets
started to pick up the storyin earnest
after the proof of the fundingfrom the white House was shared,

(48:37):
and the story started to makeheadlines across the country.
A real okay
moment for Nixon, I'massuming. Yes.
Well, actually, not quite yet.
He was still pretty calmabout it. Okay.
But in February,with the evidence
beginning to mount,the Senate passed resolution 60,
which establishedthe Watergate hearings
with the three major TV networkscovering the hearings

(48:59):
and 85% of Americans watchingat least some of the coverage.
It would be an important momentin the story.
Members of the FBI, CIAand white House were called
to testify.
As this was ramping up,Nixon was going on TV
and telling viewersthat he was blameless
and it was just some rogueelements
in the white Housecausing trouble.
While most of,

(49:20):
while most people believed him,at first
things started to go frombad to worse pretty quickly.
On July 16th, during a televisedsitting,
white House assistantAlexander Butterfield was asked
whether there was any type
of recording devicein the white House,
to which Butterfield reluctantlyreplied that yes, there was.
Nixon had had it installedin late 1971 and had recorded

(49:43):
all conversationsin the white House since then.
Obviously this would bea huge source of evidence,
and so special prosecutor
Archibald Coxwould subpoena the recordings,
which Nixon would
immediately respond to
with a refusalbased on executive privilege,
which was about the most obviousway of saying,
yeah, it's incriminating.
Yeah, yeah.

(50:03):
After this, Nixon would order
his attorney general, ElliotRichardson, to fire Cox,
to which Richardsonimmediately resigned in disgust.
Nixon would thenorder his deputy attorney
general, William Ruckelshaus,to fire him,
but Rockwell would also resignin disgust.
Nixoneventually found the Solicitor
General, Robert Bork,willing to fire Cox

(50:25):
and would immediately order theFBI to seal off Cox's office,
but the damage had been done.
Nixon would tell the press,well, I'm not a crook,
but it was obvious to anyonethat that wasn't true.
You'd be forced to hirea new special prosecutor
who would continuethe investigation.
This event would become knownas the Saturday Night Massacre.

(50:46):
So this all pretty muchhappened in a night. Yeah.
Pretty wild to have your
attorney generaland deputy attorney general
both quit on the same daybecause of what you're doing.
Like, that speaks volumes.
That dodgy you being
the public attorney against himnow, with the mounting evidence
of his wrongdoing, the courtsweren't helping him either.
With seven of his aides

(51:07):
being indicted by a grand juryin March of 1974
and the Supreme Court rulingthat the white House tapes
would be releasedin July of the same year.
On August 5th,
the transcripts of the tapesappeared in the media,
with the smoking guntape revealing Nixon's order
to the CIAto obstruct the investigation.
It didn't matterthat Nixon had known

(51:28):
and had nothing to dowith the breaking anymore.
It obviously been taking partin a cover up,
and that was enoughto make him a criminal.
Know.
Congress would start the process
to impeach Nixon,but on August 8th,
he would take that power awayfrom them.
Announcing his resignationas president
the next day would see thenow infamous image of Nixon
standing on the top stepof the presidential helicopter,

(51:50):
giving the V sign meantto stand for victory.
That's what you were doingbefore the.
He also had previously done thatin his presidential campaign
in various cities.
You know, the famous photoof him in Pennsylvania.
Oh, they got during his run.
That's the pose I was doing.
So common poses. Well.
I never sawany other photos of that.

(52:12):
But now that you say it,I think I do remember that.
So yeah, he hadn't,he hadn't done anything wrong
just until he was like.Cover it up.
Cover it up please. Yeah.
He had he, he hadn'tactually done anything at all.
People that were involvedin some shady stuff
had gone too far.
And he could have just easilybeen like, I was dumb.

(52:33):
I have a task force to try andfind leaks, and they stuffed up
and I should fire themand I fired them.
Here is what happened.But instead he's like,
now we've got to cover thisstuff up.
Yeah.
Because like, it's connected
back to various different highpeople cause it was,
it was an internal thingto stop leaks happening
and they overstep.
Yeah.
And so they got caught upin trying to get him reelected.

(52:53):
Yeah.
And I think there'sprobably something to be said
for like thehis attitude of like I'm being
what's the word I'm looking for.
But paranoid
he being paranoid about likehow people are coming to get me.
Like,you know, the elites are going
to take me out of office again,you know, that sort of thing.
So that probably permeatedaround him
and like, people got thatvibe, started doing it.

(53:16):
Yeah.
So in the aftermath, Nixon'svice president, Gerald Ford,
would take office immediatelyfollowing the resignation
and within a month
would seal his own fateby giving Nixon a full pardon.
His reason for doing so
was thatthe country needed to heal,
and a long, drawn outcourt case against its former
presidentwould do nothing to allow that

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he would lose the electionin 1976 to Jimmy Carter,
and be known foreveras the first and only president
who was never electedas president or vice president.
69 other people would be chargedwith,
crimes relating to Watergate,with 48 being found guilty.
So the other thing was
that Nixon is stillthe only president to resign.

(53:59):
Okay. Yep.
Everyone elsehas either died in office
or just ended their term.Normally.
Yeah.
Nixon himself would find himselfstrapped for cash after
all the legal battles battleshe faced afterwards.
And so I would do a seriesof interviews on TV $600,000,
and soldhis memoirs for 2 million.
He would somehow
not find himself ostracizedby the political world, though,

(54:20):
with Jimmy Carter,Ronald Reagan and George H.W.
Bush, consulting with himon foreign policy.
Becausehe was a good politician.
Just he justtried to cause Christ himself.
Yeah.
Nixon would continueliving a relatively public life
until his death in 1994,with president Bill Clinton
giving the eulogy,which ended with the line
made the day of judgingPresident Nixon on anything

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less than his entire lifeand career come to a close
while Nixon is gone,and the investigations have long
since uncoveredall there was to know.
We obviously still hearabout the scandal all the time.
That's probablybecause the suffix gate
has become the go to namingconvention for all scandals.
It could also be that after

(55:03):
that, other sayingsfrom the investigation
like followthe money, have kept it alive.
It could also bejust because it was unthinkable
that a president wouldact that way.
At the time,
and that since
it has become almost expectedthat they will.
Clinton, Trump, so.

(55:27):
How many?
That's about five.Yeah. You only go for six.
Know that?
I guess like it'syou can't imagine anyone before
Nixon doing somethingthis level of, like, dumb.
Yeah. Cause itit just didn't get caught.
They probably did, but like,it wasn't as.
They covered it up better.

(55:47):
I probably wasn't as egregious.
Right.
Like, there's nothing beforeNixon that's like
that's like, really embarrassing
for the president personally.
I don't know, like everyone'sI don't know if I'm looking at
this as egregious.
It's definitely a stuff up.
And it's definitely dumb.
I don't know, like,maybe is hindsight.

(56:09):
Maybe it's time.
But it's like
with how corrupt allpolitical stuff is worldwide.
Nixon for me, it's like,this is not just
this is just part and parcel.
It's just thatit was the first big public one
and the first one that involvedrecording devices like,
like all of this stuffthat happened before
then and stuff like thishas happened since. I mean,

(56:31):
geez, like he
tried to cover up a scandalthat happened
that he didn't necessarilyhave anything involved in.
It was pretty stupidversus like,
what is going downwith Trump in previous years?
Like.
I think it just I think it wasjust an embarrassment
to be like like youdidn't have to cover this up.
He could have justdealt with it. Yeah.

(56:51):
You just want a massiveelection. Yeah.
Like just come out and be like,yeah.
People in my inmy circle were being dumb.
I'll let him go.
Here's
what we're doing to make sureit doesn't happen again. Like
and it just became this two yearlong process to.
I guesslike you said, that paranoia
that he possibly had like, yeah,
maybe thinking that people would
still link him to it

(57:11):
even though he had not directlygiven any order to do it.
And likeit was a year of denials. Yeah.
Until the tape comes out
where he's like on the phonebeing like, yeah,
kill this investigation.
I don't want to like,nobody needs to hear about it.
That wouldhave looked bad. Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway that was treatedand the Watergate scandal.
It's a good one.

(57:33):
Good story.
And it's one I've beenwanting to do for a long time.
And now I know about it.
Because an hour and a half ago.
I never realized that Nixon wasjust like kind of not at fault.
For it.
Yeah. Yeah.
He was at faultfor choosing to cover it up.
But because the thing itself,because.
Those,those that haven't researched
in the pastwould just think, oh, Nixon,
like he was actually orderingpeople

(57:54):
to do these different things andordered them to break the law.
But he didn't actually do that.He just covered it.
I tried to cover it up. Yeah.
Anyway, that's the episode.
Nice.
Thank you very muchfor listening.
All taped up and wrappedup like a nice little. Lock.
Taped open like a lock.
Take the tape off.
We're going to close it.

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