The Fighter (Part Ten)

Why are the media & Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon? In the finale of The Fighter, we tell the story of Nixon’s fall down the deepest of valleys, then follow the man from Yorba Linda as he rises from the ashes…with his legacy shining brighter than ever before.

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Now onto the show.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Previously on Red Pilled America.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
The Establishment wanted to overturn the second largest presidential landslide
in American history.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
What you would see is subtle but significant changes in
witnesses testimony from closed door to three days later when
they go on television.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Dean shifted blame to his boss.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
He told me to shred the documents and deep sex
the briefcase.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
John Deane remained as cool and determined as he has
all week.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
What did the President know and when did he know it?

Speaker 7 (01:44):
Are you aware of the installation of any listening devices
and the oval office of the President?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yes, sir, the tug of war over the audio tapes
was underway.

Speaker 8 (01:52):
I did not cover up anything to do with Watergate.

Speaker 9 (01:55):
We had a man passing sequence to the Soviet government.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
The narrative machine was no doubt weakening President Nixon. I'm
Patrick Carrolci.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
And I'm Adriana Cortez.

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Red Pilled America. We're at the finale of our series

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of episodes entitled The Fighter. If you haven't heard the
previous episodes, stop and go back and listen from the beginning.
We're looking for the answer to the question why are
the media and Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon by
telling the often ignored story of his life. So to
pick up where we left off, Throughout the summer of
nineteen seventy three, the Urvin Committee and the media were

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tag teaming President Nixon over Watergate, and it was paying off.
At the beginning of the Watergate hearings, Nixon's approval rating
was fifty six percent. By the end of the testimony,
that number plummeted to thirty two percent. The narrative machine was,
no doubt weakening the man from yur belenda.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Richard Milhouse. Nixon must have recognized the irony of a
situation because he was the victim of the same dirty
tricks that his administration was being accused of. As Watergate unfolded,
the Republican National Committee released sworn affidavits indicating a bug
was placed in the hotel suite that Nixon used in

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the week leading up to his first nineteen sixty presidential
debate with Senator John F. Kennedy. Nixon even knew that
the FBI bug his nineteen sixty eight campaign by order
of President Johnson. The whole Watergate affair was like a
scene from Casablanca.

Speaker 10 (04:11):
Everybody is to leave here immediately.

Speaker 11 (04:13):
This cafe is closed until further notice.

Speaker 12 (04:15):
Clear the room at once.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
How can they close me up on what ground?

Speaker 13 (04:18):
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on
in here.

Speaker 9 (04:22):
You're winning, so thank you very much.

Speaker 14 (04:24):
Everybody out at once.

Speaker 15 (04:25):
Democratic presidents before Nixon, they were all taping out.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
They were taping journalists.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
That's and Culter, author of the unsafe substack.

Speaker 13 (04:33):
They were secretly taping journalists.

Speaker 16 (04:36):
The taping was just rampant among the political parties, and.

Speaker 17 (04:40):
Dirty tricks rampant. But a Republican which I think we've
all been so terrorized by now, we have deeply imbued
this no Republicans, no conservatives.

Speaker 13 (04:51):
You can't get away with what democrats can do.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Like involvement in a prostitution ring. While Nixon was being
investigated for the politically explosive Watergate break in, a US
attorney quietly dropped the probe into the DNC's involvement into
a prostitution ring because it was politically explosive. The hypocrisy
he was aware of was no doubt unbearable for President Nixon,
but he wasn't about to go down without a fight.

(05:18):
Understanding that his ship was taking on water, Nixon went
to the airwaves to underscore that his sworn enemy, the media,
was blowing the Watergate issue completely out of proportion.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
For over four months, Watergate has dominated the news media.
During the past three months, the three major networks had
devoted an average of over twenty two hours of television
time each week to this subject. But as the weeks
have gone by, it has become clear that both the
hearings themselves and some of the commentaries on them, have

(05:49):
become increasingly absorbed in an effort to implicate the president
personally in the illegal activities that took place. And I
state again to every one of you listening tonight these facts.
I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate breakhat. I
neither took part in nor knew about any of the
subsequent cover up activities. I neither authorized nor encouraged subordinates

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to engage in illegal or improper campaign tactics.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Nixon wanted America to move on from the scandal.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I asked for your help in reaffirming our dedication to
the principles of decency, honor, and respect for the institutions
that have sustained our progress through these past two centuries.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
With his entire inner circle caught in the Watergate web,
Nixon was fighting alone, and his enemies kept turning up
the heat. Just a few weeks after the hearings, Nixon's
Vice President, Spireau Agnew, was caught up in a tax
evasion scandal from his time as governor of Maryland. The
timing of the probe seemed almost scripted. Agnew resigned in

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early October nineteen seventy three, and Nixon was forced to
pick a new VP, Perhaps to help him navigate the
onslaught of Watergate attacks. He nominated a DC insider, the
man whose.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Name I will submit to the Congress of the United
States for confirmation as the Vice President of the United
States Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Ford was the Republican House Minority leader. He was confirmed,
and Nixon was going to need him because what was
becoming glaringly obvious to Nixon was that a force was
gathering that had one singular focus, and that was erasing
his historic landslide election.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
You may recall that in late April nineteen seventy three,
Nixon announced the resignation of his closest advisors, John Erlickman
and Bob Haldeman. On that same day, nixon Attorney General
Richard Kleindenst resigned as well. Klindenst felt his personal relationship
with Erlichman and Haldeman would hinder his role as attorney general.
Nixon was forced to nominate a new ag a nomination

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that would lead to the formation of a law fair Army.

Speaker 18 (07:59):
And the announces his nomination for a new Attorney General, Richardson.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
That's Jeff Sheppard, a former Nixon Watergate defense lawyer and
author of the Nixon Conspiracy. At the time Nixon proposed
his new Attorney General, Ted Kennedy was a member of
the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing the Attorney General confirmation, Kennedy
began pushing for the creation of a Watergate independent prosecutor.
The Chepiquitic man actually made it a condition of confirmation

(08:25):
again Jeff Sheppard.

Speaker 18 (08:27):
In the confirmation process, Richardson agrees to the establishment of
an independent prosecutor and the committee's choice Ted Kennedy's choice
of Archibald Cox as independence prosecutor.

Speaker 8 (08:41):
They said special prosecutor.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Back then, Archibald Cox had actually served as a Solicitor
General under Ted Kennedy's brother, the late Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Speaker 18 (08:50):
His first hire is a man named James Vorrenberg, and
Vorrenberg then hires everybody else. So the top seventeen lawyers
on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force all worked together in
the Jack Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Department of Justice. So they
were people who lost power in nineteen sixty eight when

(09:13):
Nixon was elected. And what you get is a constitutional inversion.
The very people voted out of office are now back
in charge of prosecuting the duly elected president.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Ted Kennedy's Lawfair Army was formed.

Speaker 18 (09:28):
So you have a brand new set of specially recruited
lawyers out to get Richard Nixon. They announced at the
first press conference every act that Nixon has taken since
becoming president, We're going to investigate.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
The Lawfair Army attacked from every possible angle, but their
most fruitful ground was the White House audio recordings.

Speaker 16 (09:48):
Central to the problems faced by President Nixon is the
Watergate tapes on their tangled history.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
On July twenty third, nineteen seventy three, as the Watergate
hearings were underway, Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox served Nixon's lawyer
with a subpoena for the tapes. Diixon could no doubt
see the establishment forces were setting up for a kill.
There was no way that he'd get a fair shot
at vindication. With Ted Kennedy's law Fair Army combing through
over three thousand hours of recorded conversations. No one could

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survive that level of scrutiny by an enemy. Nixon refused
to hand over the tapes.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
It is even more important that the confidentiality of conversations
between a president and his advisors be protected. This is
no mere luxury to be dispensed with Whenever a particular
issue raises sufficient uproar it is absolutely essential to the
conduct of the presidency in this and in all future administrations.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Nixon instead offered a compromise.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
The White House announcing that rather than appealing to the
Supreme Court an appeals court order to turn the tapes
over to Cox, it would provide a summary of the
tapes both to Cox and the Watergate Committee, with Mississippi
Senator John Stennis having unlimited access to the tapes themselves.
Senator Stennis selected by the White House to verify by
the completeness and the accuracy of the summaries.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Senator Stennis was a Democrat. But Archibald Cox refused the
offer and held a press conference to give his reasons why, I'm.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Certainly not out to get the president of the United States.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
In the end, I decided that.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
I had to try to stick by what I.

Speaker 10 (11:20):
Thought was right.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Nixon didn't trust the motives of Ted Kennedy's hand picked
special prosecutor, so he took a drastic step. On October twentieth,
nineteen seventy three, just hours after Cox gave the press conference,
Nixon ordered his Attorney General, Elliott Richardson, to fire Cox.
Richardson refused and resigned the Deputy Attorney General followed suit.

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Nixon turned to a solicitor general who agreed to acts
Archibald Cox. The media amped up the drama, calling it
the Saturday Night massacre.

Speaker 19 (11:53):
The country tonight is in the midst of what may
be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. The
president has fired a special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox, and
half an hour after the special Watergate prosecutor had been fired,
agents of the FBI, acting at the direction of the
White House, sealed off the offices of the special prosecutor,

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the offices of the Attorney General, and the offices of
the Deputy Attorney General. All of this adds up to
a totally unprecedented situation, a grave and profound crisis in
which the president has set himself against his own Attorney
General and the Department of Justice. Nothing like this has
ever happened before.

Speaker 13 (12:34):
For the first time since the watergatecase began, talk of
presidential impeachment no longer sounds like idle chattery.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
After the events of the weekend, there is growing sentiment
here for the impeachment of the president, though it is
doubtful there are now enough votes for it.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
The NonStop attacks by the narrative machine, ignited a public outcry,
and Nixon chastised the media for irresponsibly stoking the flames.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
I have never heard or seen such outrageous vicious started
reporting twenty seven years of public life. I'm not blaming
anybody for that. Perhaps what happened is that what we
did brought it about, and therefore the media decided that
they would have to take that particular line. But when

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people are pounded night after night with that kind of frantic,
hysterical reporting, it naturally shakes their confidence. And yet, don't
get the impression if you arouse my anger. One can
only be angry with those he respects. When a commentator
takes a bit of news and then, with knowledge of

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what the facts are, distorts it viciously. I have no
respect for that individual.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
But in the wake of the growing drama, President Nixon
decided to acquiesce.

Speaker 14 (13:49):
The President today reversed his stand and, after what the
White House called painful and agonizing discussions with his advisers,
agreed to do just what he had always said he
would not do, turnover certain tape recordings of his conversations
about Watergate. The tapes will be given to Judge John Sirica,
who will then decide what is to be given the
grand jury.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
The just as the problem seemed to subside, a new
crisis arose. Judge Sirica subpoenaed the audio recordings for specific
meetings and calls. The problem was that two of the
recordings didn't exist.

Speaker 7 (14:22):
A lawyer for the President, Fred Bazzar, declared that it
was discovered only last weekend that two key conversations were
never recorded. He told Judge Serica that the President's phone
call to John Mitchell on June the twentieth, their first
conversation after Watergate, was placed from a phone that was
not bugged, and that when mister Nixon had his controversial
talk with John Dean on April fifteenth, the recorder had

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run out of tape. So there is no way to
check the truth of what the Watergate witness has said
about these conversations.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
And this is when the core of Nixon's dilemma was revealed.
You see, once the media found out that the White
House was rigged with the recording system, any recording that
went missing, damaged, or for whatever reason just didn't exist,
the media spun up the drama, suggesting a deliberate obstruction
of justice.

Speaker 16 (15:09):
The federal courts have uncovered a bizarre system of handling
the tape recordings of the president's meetings and phone calls,
carelessly stored and checked in and out in a strange
fashion and now further straining credulity. The White House has
two of the tapes never existed, but the.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
White House recording devices were not a government required system.
They were primarily implemented as an informal record for Nixon's
future memoirs, reference and research. The device in one of
the rooms was horrible. Only parts of conversations were audible,
so it could not be a definitive record of events,
and the logging of the tapes was slipshot at best.

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They were never meant to be made public, especially not
while Nixon was president. The entire recording system was not
an organized endeavor, yet the media portrayed the system at
once both mandated and sloppy.

Speaker 7 (15:58):
Records were kept on scraps of paper torn from shopping bags,
and it appeared to be a measure of mister Nixon's
troubles that public attention has tended to focus on the
holes in the White House's story, not its consistencies.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
The narrative machine was grinding away at the presidency, pushing
him to resign, but Nixon fought back hard.

Speaker 8 (16:20):
I have no.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Intention whatever of walking away from the job I was
elected to do. As long as I am physically able,
I'm going to continue to work sixteen to eighteen hours
a day. I'm not going to walk away till I
get that job done.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
But the attacks kept coming. Archibald Cox was replaced by
another special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski. As he was getting warmed up,
the media pulled an old trick that they'd already used
against Nixon. They accused him of personally profiting from campaign donations.
The media began questioning Nixon's property holdings, just like in
his nineteen fifty two Checkers speech. Nixon was forced to

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give an accounting of his finances.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
I made two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from a
book in the practice of law. I earned between one
hundred and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars every year.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Just like twenty years earlier. It was a humiliating experience.
Nixon again turned to the American people for support.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
And I want to say this to the television audience.
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years
of public life, I have never profited from public service.
I've earned every center. And in all of my years
of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I
think too that I can say that in my years
of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination

(17:38):
because people have got to know whether or not they're
President's a cruk.

Speaker 10 (17:41):
Well, I'm not a cruk.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
I've earned everything I've got.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
The President was fighting for his life and the battle
was about to get even tougher because Judge Serrica, the
judge now overseeing the cover up trial, began to land
solid punches on the president, and he wanted to make
sure the media captured every blow.

Speaker 11 (18:01):
You good sense it coming. A grim faced Judge Sirica
had even warned a reporter, you better be there on
the day the prosecution suspects the Watergate cover up began.
The crucial conversations between the President and his chief aids
are missing or partially obliterated.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
The tapes were again being treated as if they were
federally mandated recordings. Any discrepancy was given the worst possible spin.

Speaker 11 (18:28):
Eighteen minutes of a June twentieth tape contained an audible
tone and no conversation. A number of technical tests were
made yesterday to discover the reason for the tone, but
without satisfactory results.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Nixon's secretary claimed a portion of the tape may have
been damaged while she was transcribing. Another expert suggested a
known defect in a light that was connected to the
same outlet as the recorder drew a power surge that
created the hum The cause of the anomaly has gone
unsolved to this day, but that didn't stop the worst
interpretation of the news. The prosecution and even Judge Sirica

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suggested that the tape were deliberately erased. On its face,
the accusation appeared reckless. Why on earth would anyone from
Nixon circle attempt to erase portions of a tape and
then submitted to the same judge that so harshly sentenced
the Watergate burglars. Who in their right mind would do that.

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Nixon's team already claimed certain meetings weren't recorded. If they
wanted to destroy evidence, why wouldn't they just say the
so called erase tapes didn't exist. Well to the media,
only the worst interpretations mattered. Every hiccup and anomaly became
a national scandal. Once he took President Johnson's advice to
install a recording system. Nixon never stood a chance. Regardless,

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he kept fighting the establishment that was trying to tear
him down.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
The captain's job to bring that ship into port. And
I can assure you that you don't need to worry
about my getting seasick or jumping ship. I'm going to
stay on that helm. Do we bring it into park.

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as nineteen seventy three came to a close, Nixon was
fighting the establishment that was trying to tear him down.
He thundered that he had no intention of stepping down.
But what Nixon couldn't have known was that behind the scenes,
the deep State was close to delivering the final blow
to his presidency again, Jeff Shepherd.

Speaker 18 (22:00):
All three branches of government secretly linked arms to avoid
Nixon's landslide re election. We start with the Irvin Committee.
Their chief council is a gentleman named Sam Dash. Sam
was a law professor at Georgetown University.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
And he had a connection with Judge Serrica. The judge
was an adjunct professor at Georgetown.

Speaker 18 (22:24):
So Sam Dash starts calling privately on Judge Sirica to
discuss the prosecutions.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
While researching his book, The Nixon Conspiracy, Jeff Shepherd discovered
evidence of these meetings in the National Archive and other
research facilities.

Speaker 18 (22:39):
There's documentation that suggests at least ten secret meetings between
the special prosecutors and Judge Sirica. That's totally improper. Prosecutors
cannot meet secretly with the judge. But what you have
is Judge Sirica, who appoints himself to preside over the
burglary trial and then appoints himself to preside over the

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cover up trial, is meeting secretly with representatives of both
legislative and the executive branch.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
And he found documents that revealed other shady, behind the
scenes maneuvers.

Speaker 18 (23:13):
They described secret meetings with a prosecutor. They described the
suppression of evidence that would have been helpful to the defense.
They describe different standards based on whether you were a
Democrat or a Republican. I mean, just nothing short of incredible.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
This secret deep state cabal formed a prosecution roadmap for
the president.

Speaker 18 (23:35):
It was generally agreed that if you were going to
avoid Nixon's re election, you had to catch him personally
involved in a crime, which was the equivalent of treason
or bribery, which is named in the Constitution. None of
this conspiracy stuff where he talked to somebody who talked
to somebody who committed a crime. We needed to get

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Nixon himself with his hand in the cookie jar.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
They had to find Nixon directly involved in a hush
money payment. The problem was they had conflicting testimonial evidence,
so they cherry picked the testimony. They kept the parts
that helped their narrative and disregarded the stuff that hurd it.
They claimed that Nixon was directly involved in a blackmail
payment to Howard Hunt, but they didn't have clear evidence
to back up their claim.

Speaker 18 (24:19):
Nixon was falsely accused. They said they had proof of
his personal involvement, and they didn't, so they faked.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
It based on a fabricated chain of evidence. In February
nineteen seventy four, the Watergate Grand Jury secretly named Nixon
an unindicted co conspirator in the alleged attempt to cover
up the Watergate burglary. It was a damning claim that
was supposed to be kept secret until a later date,
but Jeff Shepherd found evidence that the Watergate prosecutors leaked

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this conclusion to the House Judiciary Committee that was set
to vote on the articles of impeachment.

Speaker 18 (24:53):
They secretly told the House Judiciary Committee, but they didn't
tell us.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Jeff was part of Nixon's defense team at the.

Speaker 18 (24:59):
Time, so we were trying to defend the president against
accusations we didn't know existent. Now having been made public,
those accusations turned out to be erroneous and easily refuted.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
But because the accusations were sealed, the Nixon defense team
couldn't fight the reasoning behind their claim. Well. The leak
to the House Judiciary Committee had devastating results.

Speaker 13 (25:22):
By an overwhelming voter four hundred and ten to four,
The House of Representatives Today gave its Judiciary Committee unqualified
powers for an investigation to determine if there are sufficient
grounds to impeach President Nixon.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Nixon was under continued pressure to release even more White
House recordings, so in late April nineteen seventy four, he
directed Jeff Sheppard to make public transcripts of some of
the tapes.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Few people could withstand the reviewal of all their conversations
being recorded. The tapes were the first unfiltered, raw look
at how a president speaks when the cameras are off,
and it was jarring. At the time, people were not
yet aware of lbj's legendary foul mouth or jfd ky's
habitual womanizing. It was still a time when the man
in the Oval Office was portrayed as in near angelic superhuman.

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If any faction of the American populace would have frowned
on course language, it would have been Richard Nixon's base.
If the media onslaught didn't do the trick, the release
of the transcripts were enough to leave a bad taste
in the mouth of even his most stalwarts porters. As
the scandal dragged on, the Watergate Special Prosecutor demanded more

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and more tapes. Nixon resisted and took the case all
the way up to the Supreme Court, than on July
twenty fourth, nineteen seventy four, they announced decision.

Speaker 17 (26:42):
President Nixon has not yet responded to the sledgehammered decision
of the Supreme Court today, which ruled that he must
immediately turn over tapes of sixty four presidential conversations. In
a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Warren Berger, the
Court rejected eight to nothing mister Nixon's claim of absolute
privilege on those takes.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
At the time of the Supreme Court's announcement, Nixon was
at his house in San Clemente, California. Again, Jeff Shepherd.

Speaker 18 (27:10):
Preston has called me and asked me to go listen
to a particular tape, tape of Gin twenty third, nineteen
seventy two, six days after the break in arrest.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
And it was this tape that would mistakenly take down
the Nixon presidency. To understand its significance, we have to
rewind to June seventeenth, nineteen seventy two, the day of
the water Gate arrests. You may recall that when the
burglars were arrested. One of the items found on them

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was a hotel room. Key investigators went to the hotel
room and found a clue again, Jeff Shepherd.

Speaker 18 (27:50):
There is five thousand dollars of uncirculated one hundred dollars
bills sequentially numbered. That's not hard to trace. They trace
the money to the Miami Federal Reserve Bank and they
call up the FED say, well, what happened to these dollars,
and Miami says, well, we checked our records. We sent
fifty thousand dollars to the Republic National Bank in Miami.

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So they go over to the Republic National Bank and say,
tell us about this, and they say, well, one of
our account holders, Bernard Barker, has his business account here
and he presented some cashiers checks. He wanted cash, and
we didn't have enough hundred dollars bills on hand, so
we asked the FED to give us the money. So
it's Bernard Barker that's who got the money. Barker is

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one of the Cubans arrested in the Watergate break in.
So what the FBI has discovered is Barker's in the
chain of money that got to the break in.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
People the FBI then learned that Nixon's re election campaign
also had similar uncirculated one hundred dollar bills.

Speaker 18 (29:01):
So they've now tied the The Committee to re Elect
the President into the Watergate break in was relatively easy
because James McCord was their head of security.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
And James McCord was one of the arrested burglars.

Speaker 18 (29:13):
So this wasn't all that hard, but they do it
within two or three days. Then, being thorough, the FBI
wants to figure out how those travelers checks got to
the committee in the first place, and that's the problem
because that money was donated to the Committee to re
Elect the President.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
The FBI discovered that the money was donated to the
campaign through two campaign bundlers, which are basically campaign staff
members that collect and bundle together donations from multiple donors.
The FBI wanted to question the two bundlers to see
how the money came into the campaign. One of those
bundlers was a guy named Ken Dahlberg. When Dahlberg learned

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that the FBI wanted to question him, he called the
Reelection Committee in a panic.

Speaker 18 (29:57):
And says, my god, if they interview me, I'm going
to have to give them the name of the donor
of that money, who's a very prominent Democrat who gave
us twenty five thousand dollars in the absolute assurance his
name would never become public. So what are we to do?
So they talk to John Dene about.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
What to do.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Remember, at the time, John Deane acted as a liaison
between the reelection campaign and the White House. They reportedly
told Dean they couldn't disclose the name to the.

Speaker 18 (30:28):
FBI, and Deane says, I know what we can do.
The FBI already thinks this has got some international implications,
So we'll get the CIA to tell the FBI this.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
Is part of their operation.

Speaker 18 (30:40):
Don't interview these two witnesses now, they've already trusted the
reelection campaign. We're not interfering with their investigation. Those guys
in the campaign, they're toads. But don't try to figure
out how the money got to the campaign in the
first place.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Now, John Dene needed help in implementing his idea because
he couldn't reach out to the CIA on his own.
He needed authorization from the President, who at the time
he'd never directly met. So just a few days after
the break in, Dean brought his idea to Nixon's White
House Chief of Staff, Bob Haldeman.

Speaker 18 (31:11):
Haldoman goes in to see Nixon on June twenty third.

Speaker 8 (31:14):
It's on tape.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
June twenty third, nineteen seventy two.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
On the investigation.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Person.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Haldeman tells Nixon the investigation is going in a direction.
They don't want it to go.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Direct.

Speaker 18 (31:33):
We don't want it to go They're going to find
out about this money, and we don't want.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Them to because they're trying to protect the donor's anonymity.

Speaker 18 (31:40):
So Dean's idea is got the CIA to tell the
FBI not to interview them, and that bot this other
Nixon concurs to stop. I would tell you, having worked
on the White House staff, they make decisions like that
ten times a day. This is no big thing. They're
not doing anything criminal.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
In other words, at this June twenty third, nineteen seventy
two meeting, just six days after the break in, President
Nixon was not attempting to stop the FBI from investigating
the entire Watergate break in. He was simply assisting the
reelection Committee's desire to protect the privacy of the donor.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Well.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
The CIA agreed to try and convince the FBI not
to interview the two campaign bundlers. The director of the
FBI called Nixon and complained that people were interfering with
their Watergate investigation.

Speaker 18 (32:41):
Nixon says, you follow your investigation anywhere at tiction. The
CIA decides a little bit later, after ten days, there's
no sense in protecting these guys. The FBI interviews them.
They're not involved.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
So when the Supreme Court ordered President Nixon to turn
over the tapes, one of Nixon's lawyers, Fred Buzzart, listened
to this June twenty third, nineteen seventy two recording.

Speaker 18 (33:03):
He hears from this tape that Nixon has not shared
with him. Nixon agreed to a step in interfering with
the FBI investigation.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
And Buzzart then turned to Jeff Shepherd with his conclusion.

Speaker 18 (33:16):
And having listened to that tape, I'm afraid the president
has been involved in the cover up from the get Gun.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
The tape came to be known as the Smoking Gun tape.

Speaker 18 (33:27):
And Bizart concludes, the president himself has been involved in
the cover up. Now it's a mistake, Patrick, but an
understandable mistake. When Fred Bizart hears this recording, all the
staff is turned over, Dean's not around, Halman's not around.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Nixon had long forgotten about the minor exchange, so no
one was around to add the proper context.

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smoking gun tape, the House Judiciary Committee was preparing to
vote on Nixon's articles of impeachment, news had already leaked
to the public that the grand jury named Nixon an
unindicted co conspirator. The public didn't know that it was
based on fabricated, cherry picked evidence because the grand jury's
conclusion was sealed. Not even Nixon's lawyers knew how the

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grand jury came to that conclusion. As the House Judiciary
Committee took a vote on the articles of impeachment, all
the public knew was that Nixon was named an unendoy
co conspirator, which had a devastating effect to Nixon's reputation.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
All those in favor signified by saying, I all those
opposed novel, mister Donaho, I, mister Brookes, HI, mister Edwards, I,
mister Hutchinson, no, mister McCrory out.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
The host Judiciary Committee has just approved its first article
of impeachment against President Nixon, the vote twenty seven to eleven.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
A few days later, the.

Speaker 11 (36:34):
Third article has been approved by a narrow margin.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Five days later, on August fifth, nineteen seventy four, Nixon's
lawyers disclosed the so called Smoking Gun tape. Nixon was
already on the ropes, and his lawyers believed that this
recording undercut Nixon's last vestiges of defense. But they were
making a mistake.

Speaker 18 (36:54):
And it's open and shot that it's a mistake because
John dene the president's principal accuser, writes a book in
twenty fourteen. It's called The Nixon Defense, and in a
footnote at page fifty five, to be very precise, he says,
you know, funny thing, the smoking Gun tape has been
misunderstood from the very outset. If Nixon's lawyers had understood

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the context, it had nothing to do with Watergate, didn't
involve any wrongdoing.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
John dene actually wrote in this footnote.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Quote, Ironically, this conversation has been mistakenly understood as an
effort by Nixon and Haldeman to shut down the FBI's
entire Watergate investigation. This appears to be the case only
when viewed out of context.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Dean went on, writing, quote.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
In reality, it was only an effort by Haldeman to
stop the FBI from investigating an anonymous campaign contribution end quote.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Dean noted that the prosecutors had already agreed the contribution
was outside the scope of the Watergate investigation, and then.

Speaker 18 (37:53):
He ends that footnote he says, if Nixon and his
lawyers had known, he might have lived to fight again
another day. In short, smoking gun was shooting blanks. So
to complicate all of Watergate, you've got his own lawyers
turning on him at the.

Speaker 8 (38:11):
Very end by mistake.

Speaker 18 (38:14):
Even me at the time he resigned, I felt very
strongly he should have resigned. I was part of a
misunderstanding of the smoking gun. I devoted every waking minute
to his defense and felt used.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
In a last ditch effort, Nixon met with Republican leaders
at the White House to gauge his support in Congress.

Speaker 18 (38:32):
Barry Goldwater, the head Conservative, Hugh Scott, the minority Senator,
and Johnny Rhoades of Arizona, the minority Speaker of the House,
come to call on Nixon.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
The President had invited the senators and House Minority.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Leader roads here to the White House to.

Speaker 9 (38:49):
Assess the current situation.

Speaker 11 (38:51):
The meeting started about ten minutes ago. Now there was
no indication on how long it would go.

Speaker 18 (38:57):
They tell him, you know, Dick, if you don't resign,
we're going to be wiped out in the mid elections.
He got the right to stand trial. Things are pretty bleak.
Clearly going to be impeached. There's a trial in the Senate.
They got to get two thirds of the vote. Never
in the history of our country has the Senate ever convicted.

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Come close, but they've never convicted. So you're can have
pundits say Nixon would have lost open and shot, no problem.
You know he was certain to be convicted, but you
don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
Instead, Nixon decided to resign. He believed America could not
withstand another two years of constant chaos. It was a
devastating decision. Nixon had survived the conflict of one hundred
mere mortals. He withstood poverty and the untimely death of
his two brothers. He outperformed the privileged class in college

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and led just about every local public service organization he joined.
Nixon bested a local communist friendly politician to become a
con engressman, the anti communist crusader, took on the reds
in Hollywood. Then he revealed Alger Hiss's dirty deeds. He
defeated a Hollywood starlet to become the Senator from California,
then joined Dwight de Eisenhower's ticket to become one of

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the youngest vice presidents in American history. He pulled the
gop out of the ashes to win the presidency in
nineteen sixty eight. Then Nixon ended a seemingly endless war,
cooled tensions with communist China, and set the stage for
the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
Nixon brought law and order back to the streets and
campuses of America. The success of his first term led

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to one of the biggest presidential landslides in American history.
By the beginning of his second term, Richard Milhouse Nixon
was thought to be one of the most successful presidents
of all time, and now caught in the web of
a silly scandal, he felt he had to end the
destructive chaos of Watergate. It was time to end his
career as the fighter from Yorberland. On the night of

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his decision, he gathered his family. His daughter Julie later
recalled the emotions of the night.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
My father called White House photographer Aliatkins up to the
selarium where we just finished supper because he wanted a
picture for history's sake, and we all linked arms and
stood there and smiled. But my mother just takes that
picture because she said there our hearts were breaking and
were smiling.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
The following day, on August eighth, nineteen seventy four, President
Nixon met with the White House staff to make final arrangements.
Shortly after noon, word came out that the president had
asked for national television time that night. Nixon Press Secretary
Ron Ziegler confirmed the rumor.

Speaker 12 (41:42):
Tonight, at nine o'clock Eastern daylight time, the President of
the United States will address the nation on radio and
television from his over office.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
That night, August eighth, nineteen seventy four, and unease filled
the White House air as Nixon announced his resignation to America.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Good evening. This is the thirty seventh time I have
spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions
have been made that shape the history of this nation.
In all the decisions I have made in my public life,
I have always tried to do what was best for
the nation. Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate,

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I have felt it was my duty to persevere to
make every possible effort to complete the term of office
to which you elected me. From the discussions I have
had with Congressional and other leaders, I have concluded that
because of the Watergate matter, I might not have the
support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to

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back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties
of this office and the way the interests of the
nation will require. I have never been a quitter to
leave office before my term is completed, as abhorrent to
every instinct in my body. I must put the interests

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of America first. Therefore I shall resign the Presidency affective
at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in
as president at that hour in this office.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
The following morning, Nixon said farewell to the White House staff.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
You were here to say goodbye to us, and we
don't have a good word for it in English, the
bestess or revoir.

Speaker 8 (43:34):
We'll see you again.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
I want you to know that each and every one
of you, I know it's indispensable to this government. You
did what you believed in, sometimes right, sometimes wrong. And
I only wish that I were a wealthy man, and
if I were, i'd like to recompense you for the

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sacrifices that all of you have made to serve government.
There are many fine careers. This country needs, good farmers,
good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
I remember my old man.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I think that they would have called him sort of
a a sort of a little man, a common man.
In didn't consider himself that way. You know what he was.
He was a streetcar motorman first, and then he was
a farmer. And then he had a lemon ranch that

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was the poorest lemon ranch in California.

Speaker 15 (44:41):
I can assure you.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
He sold it before they found oil on it, and
then he was a grocer, but he was a great
man because he did his job, and every job counts
up to the hilt, regardless of what happened. Nobody will

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ever write a book, probably about my mother. Well, I
guess all of you would say this about your mother.
My mother was a saint. And I think of her
two boys dying up tuberculosis, nursing four others in order

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that she could take care of my older brother for
three years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die,
and when they died it was like one of her own. Yes,
she will have no books written about her, but she.

Speaker 8 (46:05):
Was a saint.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Nixon then read a diary entry he came across on
his last night in the White House. It was from
Theodore Roosevelt tr as Nixon referred to him, had just
tragically lost his wife, and wrote down his feelings at.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
The time, loving tender and happy as a young wife,
when she had just become a mother, when her life
seemed to be just begun, and then the years seemed
so bright before her, and by a strange, terrible fate,
death came to her. And when my heart's dearest died

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and died, the light went from my life wherever that
was k R. In his twenties, he thought the life
had gone from his life forever. But he went on,
and he not only became president, but as an ex president,

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he served his country always in the arena, tempestuous, strong,
sometimes wrong, sometimes right. But he was a man. And
as I leave, let me say that's an example I
think all of us should remember. We think sometimes when
things happen that don't go the right way. We think

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that when someone dear to us dies, We think that
when we suffer a defeat, that all is ended. We think,
as tr said, that the light had left his life forever.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
Not true.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
It's only a beginning.

Speaker 8 (48:10):
Always.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
The young must know it, the old must know it.
It must always sustain us, because the greatness comes. Not
when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes,
and you're really tested when you take some knocks, some disappointments,
when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the

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deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is
to be on the highest mountain.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Later that day, Nixon and his family left the White House,
and the media tracked his departure.

Speaker 20 (48:47):
Vice President for this morning, has he left his home
to come here for this occasion. Said it was indeed
one of the saddest incidents that he's ever seen. And
there is the President waving goodbye nearly applause.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Walter Cronkite quoted Harry Truman's admitted difficulty at becoming a
regular citizen after his presidency.

Speaker 15 (49:10):
We might recall the words of President Truman after he
left office, I discovered that it was not easy to
assume the role of mister citizen. But it's going to
be somewhat more difficult even for President Nixon assuming that
role of mister citizen, because he faces innumerable problems in

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that new role, not the least of those as whether
or not he himself might face criminal charges in the future.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
A month later, President Gerald Ford put an end to
the whole fiasco.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
Richard Nixon and his loved ones have suffered enough and
will continue to suffer, no matter what we, as a
great and good nation can do together to make his
goal of peace come true. Now, Therefore, I Gerald are Ford,
President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power

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conferred upon me by Article two, Section two of the Constitution,
have granted and by these presidents do grant a full,
free and absolute pardon, unto Richard Nixon.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
In the coming months, Nixon's inner circle would be sent
off to prison. John Erlickman served eighteen months, Bob Pldman
served eighteen months, John Mitchell served nineteen months, and John Dene,
at a minimum, the ringleader of the entire cover up,
served just five months. There are many opinions on what
led to President Nixon's fall. Jeff Shepherd sees it this way.

Speaker 18 (50:58):
And today, if you looked at it objectively, you have
trouble saying what Nixon did wrong, if you really knew
the truth. Nixon was driven from office by secret cabal
of corrupt judges, prosecutors, and hillstaff, endorsed by a complacent.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Press, silent coup. Co author Len Coloudney saw it a
little differently.

Speaker 21 (51:21):
John Dene pulled off an incredible hoax, and he pulled
it off on the Watergate Committee, and he pulled it
off on the courts, and he pulled it off on
the American people, and in a sense, he erased the election.
If you take John Dene out of the story, there's
no Watergate. It'll be traditional Washington leagues that may Nick
the president a little bit, but it's not going to
drive him out of office.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
For his part, Richard Nixon placed the blame squarely on
his own shoulders.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
When I resigned, people didn't think it was enough to
admit mistakes. Fine, if they want me to get down
grvel on the floor. No, never, because I don't believe
I should. On the other hand, there are some friends
who say they just face him down. There was a
conspiracy to get you. There may have been. I don't

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know what the CIA had to do some of their shenanigans.
I don't know what was going on in some Republican
some democratic circles, as far as the so called impeachment
lobby was concerned. However, I don't go with the idea
that what brought me down was a coup, conspiracy, etcetera, etcetera, etce.

Speaker 8 (52:29):
I brought myself down.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
I gave him a sword, and they stuck it in
and they.

Speaker 8 (52:36):
Twisted it with relish.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
And I guess if I had been in their position,
I'd have done the same thing.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
What Nixon was getting at with the sword analogy was
it at a crucial moment he acted as a defense
lawyer for his inner circle rather than the President. He
would later admit as much.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
When you come to the period of March twenty first
on when Dean gave his legal opinion that's certain things
actions taken by all the early Mitchell etc. And even
by himself amounted to legal cover up. So forth, then
I was in a very different position. And during that

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period I will admit that I started acting as lawyer
for their defense. I will admit that acting as lawyer
for their defense, I was not prosecuting the case. I
will admit that during that period, rather than acting primarily
in my role as the chief and law enforcement officer
of the United States of America, the one with the

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chief responsibility for seeing that the laws of the United
States are enforced, that I did not meet that responsibility,
and to the extent that I did not meet that responsibility,
to the extent that within the law, and in some
cases going right to the edge of the law in
trying to advise early all the rest as to how

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best to present their cases because I thought they were
legally innocent, that I came to the edge, and under
the circumstances, I would have to say that a reasonable
person could call that a cover up. I didn't think
of it as a cover up. I didn't intended to
cover up. Let me say, if I intended to cover up,

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believe me i'd had done it. You know, I could
have done it so easily. I could have done it
immediately after the election simply by giving clemency to everybody,
and the whole thing would have gone away. I couldn't
do that because I said clemency was wrong.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
When President Nixon learned of the potential involvement of his
inner circle in a so called White House cover up,
instead of advising them on how to handle their situation,
he should have let them go immediately, but he wanted
to give them a chance to survive, and when he did,
he gave his enemies the sword. That's the conclusion he
came to when quoting the former British Prime minister's concept

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of what made a good PM.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
British Prime Minister summed it up Gladstone when he said
that the first requirement for a prime ministers to be
a good butcher. Well, I think the great story, as
far as summary of Watergate is concerned. I did some
of the big things rather well. I screwed up terribly
on what was a little thing and became a big thing.

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But I will have to admit I wasn't a good butcher.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
At the end of his presidency, Nixon moved back to
San Clemente, California. He fell into a depression, but it
didn't last long. Richard and his wife pat moved back
to the East Coast to be closer to their grandchildren.
He wrote best sellers and re entered the scene as
a statesman for freedom.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
We're very proud that our generation has played a role
in the defeat of communism, but now we have a
greater challenge. It's the victory of freedom.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Nixon was invited back onto the international stage. He visited
China and spoke out against and Square.

Speaker 14 (56:03):
He is perhaps ironically re emerging today in the eyes
of some as a foreign policy expert, especially in Europe.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
He spoke about freedom at the prestigious Oxford Union Debating
Society at Oxford University.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Peace with freedom, That's what I have fought for all
my life, and I'm going to continue to as long
as I live.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
And he would eventually come to peace with his time
in the White House.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
I retired from politics six years ago. But while I
retired from politics, I haven't retired from life. And perhaps
I can best characterize myself by saying that while recalling
one of the most moving speeches I ever heard in
the Congress of the United States, when Douglas MacArthur was
fired by Harry Truman, and he closed the speech by saying,

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old soldiers never die, they just fade away. And I
would paraphrase that, and this applies to me that old
politicians usually die. They never fade away.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
His wife, Pat died in June nineteen ninety three. Almost
a year later, Richard Nixon died due to complications from
a stroke, but his legacy would live on. The entire
Watergate affair was kicked off by Nixon's desire to protect
America's national security. His attempt to stop leaks set off

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a chain of events that led to his tragic resignation.
The Watergate affair wasn't about using the powers of the
federal government for personal profit. The scandal came into existence
because Nixon was trying to stop the traitor as leaking
of classified documents. In his view, leaks would destabilize the nation.
And those that followed him into the Oval office apparently agreed.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
What's been your biggest disappointment the inability to control the leaks.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
I think the District of Columbia's one giant ear. I
don't appreciate those who leak classified documents.

Speaker 14 (57:59):
If we can root out folks who have leaked, they
will suffer consequences.

Speaker 10 (58:04):
During the Obama administration, eight people were charged with violating
the Espionage Act for sharing government secrets with the press,
more than all previous administrations combined.

Speaker 8 (58:15):
We're going to find the lakers.

Speaker 14 (58:17):
We're going to find the lakers.

Speaker 16 (58:19):
They're going to pay a big price for the laking.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Nixon was anti establishment. He often argued that Republicans needed
to create their own American institutions to counter the power
of the privileged. As author and journalist James Rosen has noted, you.

Speaker 17 (58:33):
Know, you can hear throughout the Nixon tapes the presidents
sitting in the Oval Office and banging literally banging the table.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
We've got to build our own media.

Speaker 17 (58:41):
We've got to build our own business roundtable, we've got
to build our own academia. And what he was talking
about was the building of the counter establishment.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
It was Nixon that inspired Roger Ayles to create a
little network called Box News to protect the American people
from biased reporting, and it was Nixon. It was the
first American president to correctly see the media as the
enemy of the people.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Don't get the impression if you arouse my anger, one
can only be angry with those he respects.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
It was an insight that, no doubt, influenced another American fighter.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
I'm not going to give you.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Nixon was fond of saying that history, if not historians,
would somehow vindicate him. If this series has shown anything
it's that Nixon's prediction has aged well.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
Which leads us back to the question why are the
media and Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon. The answer
is Nixon showed Americans how to beat the establishment, so
the establishment had to bury him. What we see as
a Hollywood and media obsession with Richard Nixon is actually
the establishment's narrative machine in action. When Nixon won his

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historic landslide victory in nineteen seventy two, he was at
a massive disadvantage in the eyes of the establishment. The
man from your Belinda didn't stand a chance of beating
their narrative machine. Yet he won a monumental forty nine
state victory. Nixon showed the unwashed masses. How to defeat
the privileged establishment. You win by placing the interests of

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America first.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
I must put the interests of America first.

Speaker 1 (01:00:27):
That was Nixon's greatest sin, and it was why he
had to be destroyed just like a man named Donald J. Trump.
For decades, the establishment has used their narrative machine, Hollywood,
the media, art, music, literature, academia to bury Nixon's true legacy,
bury his undeniable successes, bury his popularity, and bury his

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roadmap to victory. When the deep state successfully drove him
from office, the establishment used that wind to paint every
Republican affair as worse than Nixon.

Speaker 19 (01:00:57):
What we are watching in the Trump presidency is worse
than Watergate.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
It's this strategy that has kept Nixon on the lips
of Hollywood and the media. The left isn't obsessed with
Nixon because he was corrupt, because what he did was
child's play compared to his peers. Obama, drone struck an
American citizen, used the IRS to go after his enemies,
and spied on Donald Trump, Ted Kennedy got away with
killing a woman, and the left has practically anointed both

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as saints. The left is obsessed with destroying Richard Nixon
because he was a fighter that beat the establishment, so
they use Hollywood and the media to malign his legacy
so you don't learn the truth. So the next time
you see Hollywood or the mainstream media obsessing over someone,
be sure to pay close attention because it's probably just

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the establishment using the same blueprint they used on Nixon
in an attempt to take down another fighter.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
DeSantis is an even greater threat to democracy than Trump.
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