The Nixon Conspiracy

Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President

Geoff Shepard

• Publisher: Bombardier Books
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781642937169
• Topic: Política y relaciones internacionales
• Subtopic: Historia de Norteamérica

As seen on Tucker Carlson Geoff Shepard's shocking exposé of corrupt collusion between prosecutors, judges, and congressional staff to void Nixon's 1972 landslide reelection. Their success changed the course of American history. Geoff Shepard had a ringside seat to the unfolding Watergate debacle. As the youngest lawyer on Richard Nixon's staff, he personally transcribed the Oval Office tape in which Nixon appeared to authorize getting the CIA to interfere with the ongoing FBI investigation, and even coined the phrase "the smoking gun." Like many others, the idealistic Shepard was deeply disappointed in the president. But as time went on, the meticulous lawyer was nagged by the persistent sense that something wasn't right with the case against Nixon. The Nixon Conspiracy is a detailed and definitive account of the Watergate prosecutors' internal documents uncovered after years of painstaking research in previously sealed archives. Shepard reveals the untold story of how a flawed but honorable president was needlessly brought down by a corrupt, deep state, big media alliance—a circumstance that looks all too familiar today. In this hard-hitting exposé, Shepard reveals the real smoking gun: the prosecutors' secret, but erroneous, "Road Map" which caused grand jurors to name Nixon a co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up and the House Judiciary Committee to adopt its primaryArticle of Impeachment.Shepard's startling conclusion is that Nixon didn't actually have to resign. The proof of his good faith is right there on the tapes. Instead, he should have taken his case to a Senate impeachment trial—where, if everything we know now had come out—he would easily have won.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Major Players and Events
• CHAPTER 1: The Gathering Storm: Events Culminating in the Watergate Break-in
• CHAPTER 2: The Watergate Break-in: Tempting the Deep State
• CHAPTER 3: Origins of the Cover-up
• CHAPTER 4: Sirica's Search for "Truth": The Break-in Trial
• CHAPTER 5: Dean Switches Sides: The Collapse of the Cover-up
• CHAPTER 6: Nixon Cleans House: Senior Staff Casualties
• CHAPTER 7: Cox's Army: The Watergate Special Prosecution Force
• CHAPTER 8: The Ervin Committee: Conduct of a Legislative Trial
• CHAPTER 9: Butterfield Spills the Beans: Revelation of Nixon's Taping System
• CHAPTER 10: The Saturday-Night Massacre: Richardson's Showy Resignation
• CHAPTER 11: The Eighteen-Minute Gap: An Unresolved Conundrum
• CHAPTER 12: Indict and Impeach: Jaworski Gets Rolled
• CHAPTER 13: The Road Map: The Secret Report that Sank Nixon
• CHAPTER 14: Nixon Unveiled: How Releasing the Tape Transcripts Backfired
• CHAPTER 15: U.S. v. Nixon: The Supreme Court Weighs In
• CHAPTER 16: The House Impeachment Inquiry: Congress Piles On
• CHAPTER 17: Nixon's Demise: Two Weeks That Changed the World
• CHAPTER 18: The Cover-up Trial: Prosecuting Nixon in Absentia
• CHAPTER 19: The Real Smoking Gun: Unsealing the Road Map
• CHAPTER 20: It Didn't Have to Happen: What if Nixon Hadn't Resigned?
• Acknowledgments
• Cast of Characters
• Notes and Sources
• Endnotes