EP 168: The Watergate Scandal (Part Two)

EP 168: The Watergate Scandal (Part Two)

From Hashtag History by Hashtag History

June 2, 2026 · 51 min · Season 17 · Episode 170

About this episode

This episode discusses the details of the Watergate Scandal, including the wiretapping operation, investigative journalism, and Nixon's resignation.

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the second part of the Watergate Scandal. In last week's episode, we left off with the White House Plumbers that Nixon had recruited to serve as his secret task force to stop any potential leaks—not actual plumbing leaks, but leaks like the 7,000 pages of Pentagon Papers that exposed just how much the US Government had been lying to the American people about our involvement in the Vietnam War. Where we left off with last week’s episode was Nixon getting increasingly paranoid about being exposed, about perhaps not getting re-elected to the presidency, and about damaging his reputation. And so he became hell-bent and willing to go to extreme lengths to ensure that did not happen. In this week’s episode, we are officially going to be discussing Watergate: the details of the actual operation to wiretap the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters, the investigative journalism that exposed this all, the cover up, the federal investigations, the Supreme Court’s involvement, and then, of course, talks of impeachment and Nixon’s official resignation…the only president in American history to ever resign….because you can do that…

People in this episode

Host: Hashtag History

Topics covered

  • Watergate Scandal
  • Nixon
  • investigative journalism
  • cover up
  • federal investigations
  • Supreme Court
  • impeachment

Keywords

  • Watergate
  • Nixon
  • Pentagon Papers
  • wiretap
  • investigative journalism
  • impeachment
  • resignation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Democratic National Committee, US Government, Pentagon

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