46: The Watergate Affair Part 1

Join Morgan and Emileigh as they dive into the Nixon administration in the United States. Learn how the President and his loyal cronies would do whatever it took to keep power, including one of the most notorious constitutional violations in American history. 

 

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Ep 1 Sources: 

 

Documentary: Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal series by CNN (discovery+) 2022

 

“Richard Nixon.” Biography.com (2021)

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/richard-nixon

 

https://www.enemieslist.info/ 

 

https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers 

 

“How The Pentagon Papers Changed Public Perception Of The War In Vietnam” Terry Gross, NPR (2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/1007573283/how-the-pentagon-papers-changed-public-perception-of-the-war-in-vietnam

 

“Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92” Robert D. McFadden, New York Times. (2023)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/daniel-ellsberg-dead.html

 

“Lawrence F. O’Brien, 73; He Was Target of 1972 Watergate Break-In” Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Times. (1990)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-29-mn-1122-story.html

 

“5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here” Alfred E. Lewis, Washington Post (1972). 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/061872-1.htm

 

“The Democrat who cried (maybe) in New Hampshire and lost the presidential nomination” Robert Mitchell, Washington Post (2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/09/new-hampshire-ed-muskie-tears-primary/

 

“Nixon Debated Paying Blackmail, Clemency: ‘Keep Cap on Bottle’” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Washington Post (1974)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nixon-debated-paying-blackmail-clemency-keep-cap-on-bottle/2012/06/04/gJQABnH1IV_story.html

 

https://watergate.info/

 

“American Social Policy in the 1960’s and 1970’s” Jerry D. Marx

https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/war-on-poverty/american-social-policy-in-the-60s-and-70s/

 

“The Nation: White House Intrigue: Colson v. Dean” Time Magazine. (1973)

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,879211-1,00.html 

 

“Watergate: Who Did What and Where Are They Now?” Alice Popovici, history.com. (updated 2023) 

https://www.history.com/news/watergate-where-are-they-now

 

“Cancer on the Presidency” recording: https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/index.php/media/33365

 

Sound Credits: 

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