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An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess-and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.

This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author. Obstruction of justice, the specter of impeachment, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor. It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the...

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan—speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon—tells the untold story of Nixon’s embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural...

Hear Watergate "plumber" Egil "Bud" Krogh, on this edition of Fresh Air. Krogh was one of the "president's men" in the Watergate era. He was co-director of a special investigations unit known as "the plumbers" that was tasked by President Nixon with stopping leaks of top-secret information. Believing that leaks were a matter of national security, Krogh approved a covert operation to break in and burglarize the office of psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg.