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The Nixon Conspiracy

Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President

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The Nixon Conspiracy

By: Geoff Shepard
Narrated by: Charles Constant
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Geoff Shepard’s shocking exposé of corrupt collusion between prosecutors, judges, and congressional staff to void Nixon’s 1972 landslide reelection. Their success changed the course of American history.

Geoff Shepard had a ringside seat to the unfolding Watergate debacle. As the youngest lawyer on Richard Nixon’s staff, he personally transcribed the Oval Office tape in which Nixon appeared to authorize getting the CIA to interfere with the ongoing FBI investigation, and even coined the phrase “the smoking gun.” Like many others, the idealistic Shepard was deeply disappointed in the president. But as time went on, the meticulous lawyer was nagged by the persistent sense that something wasn’t right with the case against Nixon.

The Nixon Conspiracy is a detailed and definitive account of the Watergate prosecutors’ internal documents uncovered after years of painstaking research in previously sealed archives. Shepard reveals the untold story of how a flawed but honorable president was needlessly brought down by a corrupt, deep state, big media alliance — a circumstance that looks all too familiar today. In this hard-hitting exposé, Shepard reveals the real smoking gun: the prosecutors’ secret, but erroneous, “Road Map” which caused grand jurors to name Nixon a co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up and the House Judiciary Committee to adopt its primary Article of Impeachment.

Shepard’s startling conclusion is that Nixon didn’t actually have to resign. The proof of his good faith is right there on the tapes. Instead, he should have taken his case to a Senate impeachment trial — where, if everything we know now had come out — he would easily have won.

©2021 Geoff Shepard (P)2021 Recorded Books
Americas Corruption & Misconduct Politics & Government United States World Richard Nixon Tobacco
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This is a most important reappraisal of what happened to Nixon at Watergate and despite the best efforts of the narrator - the vast amounts of legal and procedural details can be hard to follow in an Audible form when reviewing is more difficult than with text.

I recommend this book to all readers of political biographies - especially of Presidential era of the past 50 years or so but make sure that you can give this book the undivided attention it requires.

Technical analysis of Watergate & Nixon's fate

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