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In this episode we cover the opening day of the Impeachment Hearing of the House Judiciary Committee. We listen to staffers of the committee and a couple of the committee members as they discuss the way the committee operated and the issues they faced as they moved forward to really look at the events. You will also hear from the members of a quiet coalition of southern Democrats all of whom are struggling between their feelings of loyalty to both a President and a constituency that is counting on them to do the right thing, and the overwhelming nature of the evidence that is in front of them. This evidence totally coming from two sources, the Senate Watergate Committee staffed with partisan Democrats put together by Senator Ted Kennedy's office, and the Rabid Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office. 

None of those facts was known at the time this debate raged  by this set of politicians tasked with making the final judgement as to whether to impeach the President 

As all of this pressure continues to build we will look into the toll it is taking on the President's mental health. Just how well was Richard Nixon coping with the disintegration of his Administration.  There are various rumors circulating that it was not to well. Yet, other staffers such as Alexander Haig and Ray Price take issue with those reports. We will hear from various people who witnessed the President up-close as all of this was unfolding. 

Then we close out the episode hearing from the man himself,  President Richard Nixon. In 1983, just nine years after these events transpired, then Former President Richard Nixon sat down with his former staffer Frank Gannon for an in-depth, non adversarial, much more relaxed, set of interviews. We will be sharing portions from those interviews in our remaining broadcasts. They will provide you with some extraordinary insights from what the President was thinking in these final months of his administration. 

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In this episode we listen as the House Judiciary Committee sets up shop to start their look into the impeachment of Richard Nixon.  You will hear from Bernard Nussbaum as he talks about the decision by John Doar not to aggressively investigate the facts of the case instead deciding they would collate the evidence already gathered by the Senate Watergate Committee and the Special Prosecutor's office. A decision that Nussbaum violently opposed at the time but in these interviews tries to put the best face on for the oral history he is providing. He even goes so far as to say it was  most likely the biggest factor in getting to the result that eventually happened. 

You will hear Hillary Rodham Clinton discuss the system for organizing material they came up with based on how Doar ran his law practice. The three areas that they all worked on included just trying to figure out how an impeachment would work, what were the grounds for determining a high crime and misdemeanor, and just what exactly were the facts as they knew them. It is a fascinating look at how the committee was run and you will hear how the congressmen were babysat through the process, with little black books, kept under lock and key, that staffers would go through the evidence with the congressmen, given to them by the WSPF, let them ask questions and go through books only under the direct supervision of staff with all the materials going safely back into custody after they were done researching it all for the current session. 

It was all a very controlled environment, for secrecy's sake, or at least that is what we have been led to believe.

Then we go through the scenario that led to the request by the Special Prosecutor's office for 64 more taped conversations. The President refused to hand them over, deciding instead to give edited transcripts, to be released simultaneously, to the Prosecutors, the House Committee and the public. That decision would eventually lead to the legal fight in the Supreme Court known as the United States vs Richard Nixon.  

Then the President addressed the nation.

If ever a case of being caught telling the truth has existed then this speech by President Nixon is it.  We just did not have any way of knowing it then, but we do now. If you go back to our first four tape series episodes and listen to the "Cancer on the Presidency" conversation with 
John Dean, the White House Counsel, ( episode 137 -  Tape series part 1) or the conversations with Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen ( episode 139  -  Tape series part 3) every single assertion in his defense made by President Nixon in this April 1974 speech turned out to be true. 

Go listen to it all for yourself. 

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In this episode we are going to introduce you to a new set of players in the saga of the fall of Richard Nixon. These are the members of the House Judiciary Committee and its staff. We chose five of them. 

Representatives Elizabeth Holtzman D-New York and Trent Lott R-Mississippi, two people at the very start of their long and illustrious careers. We also chose three members of the staff, Hillary Rodham Clinton and William Weld, who were young staffers and the number two man on the staff Bernard Nussbaum. 

It is Bernard Nussbaum whose oral history is of the most interest throughout the rest of our series. He is blunt in his assessment of the office of Special Prosecutor even as he attempts to defend the job that they all did in 1974. He calls it a dangerous office. He also points out often that Doar overruled him in his view that a thorough investigation needed to be conducted by their office rather than just relying on the information and evidence gathered by the Senate Watergate Committee and the Watergate Special Prosecutor's office. 

However, in this episode, we will just introduce them all to you and how they got in the places they were when the scandal landed on their doorstep in March of 1974.

  I will tell you that of all the various entities involved in the horrible travesty of justice known as Watergate (Here I am editorializing again) my opinion of these people, with the exception of William Weld, changed the most dramatically for the better of any of the research I conducted. 

This is their story with a few funny side stories too. Like how sliming  salmon prepared Hillary Rodham Clinton for her long career in politics. 

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In this , the season premier or our final season on "Richard Nixon and Watergate 1974 - 1994 The Fall and Re-Rise of Richard Nixon" we take a thorough examination of the actual crime that our President had been accused of by the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. It was that he authorized the payment of $75,000 in hush money to Howard Hunt. They laid out a convincing case. They met in secret with John Doar, the House Judiciary Committee's lead legal staffer. They met in ex parte meetings with Judge John Sirica, to insure that all the accumulated evidence they had was going to be moved over to the Judiciary Committee, Grand Jury secrecy rules be damned.  It all went down  flawlessly when the indictments were handed down on March 1, 1974. 

There was just one problem. They had a gargantuan hole in the story. 

There was even more than a small possibility that the money had been paid outside of a window of time when President Nixon could have even known about the blackmail threat made by Hunt.

 Now that's a problem. 

But you got to give it to Leon Jaworski, Henry Ruth, and the Special Prosecutors for coming up with a creative way around it. 

They met with John Doar late at night and over dinner at Henry Ruth's house and made a case to him. 

Then somebody, be it Doar on his own, or from the advice of his friend Henry Ruth, decided to go against the advice of his top advisor, Bernard Nussbaum and staffer Hillary Rodham, and not investigate anything on their own. He would ,collate the evidence, given to him from the Grand Jury by way of the Watergate Special Prosecutors and follow their road map.  A road map with only one goal in mind;  take down the President of the United States of America. 

The President they could not defeat at the ballot box. 

It's all here and you will hear it in their own words, and in one case, when asked a direct question by Historian & CNN contributor Tim Naftali, you will even hear one prosecutor, Jill Wine Banks, attempt the artful dodge rather than answer the question "How did you know for sure Richard Nixon authorized the payment to  Howard Hunt?" 

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I told you it was a barn burner of a debate didn't I, and it lived up to the billing!!

Now if you have not seen it here is the link:
 
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521064-5/washington-journal-jill-wine-banks-geoff-shepard-discuss-watergate-50th-anniversary

In this episode we go through many of the exchanges and provide you with the facts of the case.

We will go back through:

- Who hired G. Gordon Liddy to run the campaign intelligence plan

- The Bombshell phone call between President Nixon and Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen = Big time exculpatory

- Were the Shepard Documents Debunked?

-  The Giant Credibility Gap of Richard Ben Veniste

- Whose idea was third party verification

- The real relevance of the Smoking Gun Tape  

-  Elizabeth Holtzman will talk about the road map provided by the WSPF

- Bernard Nussbaum, of the House Judiciary Committee staff, talks about not being allowed to actually investigate the case, and only collating the information to show the congressmen on the committee. 

- Henry Ruth talks about his secret meetings after hours with John Doar, head of the House Judiciary committee's investigation staff,  both at the office and over at his house for dinner to allegedly  plot Watergate strategy, even using babysitters to pass information

It is all here and it will shock you!! This is one great hour, and it sets the stage for the story to come and the fall of Richard Nixon.

But, also, as we shall see, you can't keep a good man down, and before we are through you will also witness the re-rise and enormous impact Richard Nixon was still to play in the history of our World. 

So tune in to Season 8 of "Randal Wallace Presents: Richard Nixon and Watergate 1974 - 1994 The Fall and Re-Rise of Richard Nixon" it starts back on October 16, 2022

** The crowd noise was added for dramatic effect, these shows were not taped in front of an audience nor at the C-Span event

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WELCOME TO OUR FIRST EVER SPECIAL EVENT!!!!!

We are so excited to put this event together to kick off the final season of our look back at, not only Watergate, but at our five season look back at the most controversial period in American History, the Vietnam War Era .

This episode is an attempt to introduce you to the two historic figures, Jill Wine Banks and Geoff Shepard,  who will face off on the episode of The Washington Journal from C-Span. The link to the debate is here

 https://www.c-span.org/video/?521064-5/washington-journal-jill-wine-banks-geoff-shepard-discuss-watergate-50th-anniversary

So after this podcast episode is finished head on over to the link and watch this unbelievable debate. Then come on back for a post debate show where we go through the debate, fact check it all, provide some analysis,  and introduce some material that we will be showing you over this our final season looking back at Richard Nixon.

This show is a lot of fun, enjoy!!!

Thanks again for tuning into our show too, we are closing in on 10,000 Downloads and that is because of you and we appreciate it!!

Randal Wallace 

** The crowd noise was added for dramatic effect, these shows were not taped in front of an audience nor at the C-Span event

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Here are the instructions to fully enjoy our Podcast Special Event tomorrow night. 

Our first post of the pre debate show will post at 8 PM (Sorry for saying in the broadcast 8:30 but it won't let me post in the half hour)

Our second post for the post Debate show will post at 10 pm

Both shows will be shared on Facebook and Twitter at those times as well.

In the hour provided between the shows, we suggest going to the link below which will take you to the You Tube video of the entire episode of C-Span's Washington Journal. The debate between Jill Wine Banks and Geoff Shepard aired on June 17, 2022. We look forward to spending the evening with you tomorrow night!!!

https://www.c-span.org/video/?521064-5/washington-journal-jill-wine-banks-geoff-shepard-discuss-watergate-50th-anniversary

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Get Ready for an event like no other in the past half century. Finally Richard Nixon will get his day. It is a podcast event that we guarantee you will change everything you thought you knew about Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. 

As Finally, The Special Prosecutors, Jill Wine Banks, have to face the Nixon Defense team, Geoff Shepard, on live television. 

We will go over all of it here on "Randal Wallace Presents: Nixon and Watergate"  October 12, 2022 at 8 pm Pre- Debate, and 10 pm Post Debate shows, with a link provided for the actual debate held on June 17, 2022  for you to plug in and watch it all for yourself. 

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Finally, we have arrived at the end of the Richard Nixon and Watergate story. Here we prepare you for the final chapters of the story of Richard Nixon's fall. His futile fight to save his Presidency in these final  5 months of his tenure. 

But  first we will fast forward a half Century for a special event of monumental proportions provided by the good folks at C-Span to kick off the season. 

When the prosecutors finally have to share the stage with Richard Nixon's last living Defense team member, Geoff Shepard.  Jill Wine Banks and Geoff Shepard talk Watergate and we will go back through the debate with highlights, analysis, and a lot of fact checking too. 

It should be an ending to our series that will change everything you ever thought you knew about Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. 

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