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In this episode we get to listen in on what was probably the most agonizing and personally painful decisions that President Nixon had to make, save decisions involving the war in Vietnam. It was during these days that Nixon had to finally step up and force the resignations of two of his closest aids and confidantes, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.  Two men who had been by his side through all the triumphs and tragedies of his entire administration and even stretching back to his wilderness years. They had been known as "The Berlin Wall" and they had protected the President from friend and foe alike. 

Now in the chaos of the Watergate Scandal they had been sucked into the events and were going to have to be forced out.  Richard Nixon trusted these men, he tried very hard to protect them, and now he was left with no choice but to cut them loose.  He would also fire John Dean, a man who had betrayed him to the Prosecutors in his attempts to secure immunity for his own crimes. 

This is a painful episode to listen to because you see the emotional toll it takes on the President. Who by all accounts was a man who did not like to have confrontations, or make decisions of this kind. It would be as though he had cut off his arms for him to lose so trusted a pair of assistants. 

The toll is even more evident as we listen to the only actual calls that sound as though  President Nixon has been drinking in order to emotionally handle the day.  (Charges of his drinking being one of the more scurrilous and false of the many targeting the President through the years)  We close with his conversations with Bob Haldeman and California Governor Ronald Reagan late in the night after he addresses the nation.  

It was a  sad day in the life of this truly great American Leader.  

In our Richard Nixon and Watergate, 1974 Through the Fire , season 7 finale, all the plotting and planning bares fruit as the Special Prosecutor's get both their indictments and they are able to assist their favorite Judge John J. Sirica into maneuvering himself in as the presiding Judge for most of the big cases on Watergate. 

He, in turn, helps the Special Prosecutors, in a series of ex parte meetings, maneuver sealed Grand Jury evidence over to the House Judiciary Committee in order to insure what the congressman see as they move forward with a look at impeaching the duly elected President of the United States.  It is all here in plain sight, you just had to wait nearly  a half century to have the documents in hand to know what you were looking for rather than flying blind. 

Here you will hear the plan executed flawlessly, structured in a way preventing the President's defense team from ever knowing exactly what the crime was  he was actually accused of committing  and its all covered by a very compliant national press corp, in the form of CBS News. 

All of this is happening while off camera, as we have discussed and shown you,  Henry Ruth, the second in command at the WSPF, is busy with secret dinners at his home,  and also extending special invitations  to his old friend,  John Doar, to hop on over to the office after hours  to get a look at all their secret evidence for himself. While also allegedly coming up with a plan to get his hands on it all, and  keep his staff, and the Congressmen on his committee from ever seeing anything other than what the Special Prosecutor's want them to see. 

 And that is what we will be sharing with you in our final season of Richard Nixon and Watergate. 

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In our third special tapes series episode we look at various meetings and calls between the President and his staff.  Some of these tapes have been spun to make the President look as bad as possible by liberal historians, Special Prosecutors, and liberal media personalities. However, when you listen to these tapes in there entirety  I would argue they paint an entirely different picture for anyone listening with an open mind.

So we are sharing these conversations as we did the two earlier meetings in there entirety, or as close to that as we could put together.

They include a meeting with Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman, phone calls with Domestic Policy Advisor John Ehrlichman,  White House Counsel John Dean and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.

We listen as John Ehrlichman reaches out to L. Patrick Gray to warn him of John Dean's duplicity. Ehrlichman who has been often vilified for years, also makes a second call to Gray to urge him to just tell the truth on the secret files Gray had destroyed based on the advice given to him by John Dean, the White House Counsel. ( A case we will look at in-depth in a later episode) This single act of kindness toward L. Patrick Gray most likely saved Gray from being indicted. Gray followed the advice Ehrlichman gave him as we will see later.

However, it is three calls with Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen that are of the most interest in these calls. Henry Petersen was investigated for his role in the early investigation of the Watergate Scandal because he had kept the President up to date on what the status was of the investigation.  Everything that could be done by Prosecutors was done to paint this situation as sinister,   as Nixon guiding the investigation away from the targets for a suspicious public.  But listen to these three calls yourself and make up your own mind as to what President Nixon was doing in them.

He is clear, he gives direct orders as to what he wants to happen, and he instructs the most important of all the witnesses in the case, G. Gordon Liddy, to talk. It is in these calls you walk away realizing that for 5 decades you may not have been told anything close to the truth.

You cannot listen to them and come away believing anything other than Richard Nixon was as determined as anyone else in America to know what the truth was in the scandal of Watergate.

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In this episode we get to listen in on what was probably the most agonizing and personally painful decisions that President Nixon had to make, save decisions involving the war in Vietnam. It was during these days that Nixon had to finally step up and force the resignations of two of his closest aids and confidantes, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.  Two men who had been by his side through all the triumphs and tragedies of his entire administration and even stretching back to his wilderness years. They had been known as "The Berlin Wall" and they had protected the President from friend and foe alike. 

Now in the chaos of the Watergate Scandal they had been sucked into the events and were going to have to be forced out.  Richard Nixon trusted these men, he tried very hard to protect them, and now he was left with no choice but to cut them loose.  He would also fire John Dean, a man who had betrayed him to the Prosecutors in his attempts to secure immunity for his own crimes. 

This is a painful episode to listen to because you see the emotional toll it takes on the President. Who by all accounts was a man who did not like to have confrontations, or make decisions of this kind. It would be as though he had cut off his arms for him to lose so trusted a pair of assistants. 

The toll is even more evident as we listen to the only actual calls that sound as though  President Nixon has been drinking in order to emotionally handle the day.  (Charges of his drinking being one of the more scurrilous and false of the many targeting the President through the years)  We close with his conversations with Bob Haldeman and California Governor Ronald Reagan late in the night after he addresses the nation.  

It was a  sad day in the life of this truly great American Leader.  

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After the pandamonium of the James McCord letter dies down inside the courtroom it becomes very clear that Watergate is now an entirely new ballgame. 

In this episode we see events move swiftly as the White House Counsel , John Dean, starts making his overtures to the prosecutors trying to cut a deal that will get him immunity. You can also see how off guard the other players are with in the White House. All of this while President Nixon is busy trying to prepare for the many goals he has set for the country in his second term. 

 We will hear President Nixon address the nation about all of the things he wants to begin as he has finally been able to free the nation from the divisive war in Vietnam.  But even as he speaks it is becoming clearer  that the events unfolding over the  Watergate scandal are now starting to consume his time, and his focus, as the story of the cover up moves closer and closer up the chain of command and begins to put the spotlight on several of his key advisors.

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