About this episode

This episode explores the complex events surrounding the Watergate scandal and its key players.

Deep Throat, Operation Gemstone, two valiant reporters, and a secret 30 years in the making. Watergate was not a single scandal, but rather an avalanche of events and co-conspirators, all engaged in corruption to keep President Nixon in office. The stakes were so high that Nixon’s Special Security Advisor, G. Gordon Liddy, lived under fear of being assassinated, and the wife of Nixon’s Campaign Director & Attorney General was drugged and held captive in a hotel room to keep her silent. What was the “smoking gun” that led to the toppling of this enterprise? Was it the tapes Nixon secretly recorded, and the 18-minute gap, that ultimately pushed Nixon to be the first and only President to resign?

People in this episode

Host: Sharon McMahon

Topics covered

• Watergate
• 1970s history
• political corruption
• Nixon administration
• journalism
• investigative reporting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nixon’s Campaign Director & Attorney General

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