The Nixon Conspiracy

Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President

By: Geoff Shepard

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

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 primary Article 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.

©2021 Geoff Shepard (P)2021 Recorded Books

Great book!

I remember learning about Watergate in high school and college. Like everyone I was fooled into believing that Nixon was behind the whole plan and he should have been impeached at a minimum.
This book goes into great detail explaining why Nixon was not only not involved, but Nixon is owed an apology. This book should be a must read in high school and college courses on our history.

Shocked / Not Shocked

This book is a must read to see how the DC Swamp has a “roadmap” to destroy any political (or even public figure) that they hate and want to get out of the way. Amazing how after all of these years our notion of what happened was based solely on speculation and not fact.

Legal and thorough

A highly legal and technical analysis by a man of integrity then and now. So keep your thinking hat on as Shepard stays in the weeds.
Somewhat tough listening because of the narrator's robotic staccato pace.

Excellent Entry in Shephard's Watergate series

This is the natural next chapter in Geoff Shephard's Richard Nixon/ Watergate series. Shephard shared much more about his role in the Nixon White House than he did in his previous volumes. With the release of documents long-sealed by court and congress Shepard had the freedom to give a true insider's take on the intricacies of the scandal that unfairly brought down a duly elected president. The narration by Charles Constant was perfect. I strongly recommend this book to political jjunkies, historians, and students of government. It is a well-aritten book that literally flies by.

One of Today's Most Important History Books

This is one of the most important history books of our time; it will completely change the way you understand the Watergate scandal. The author, Geoff Shepard, was an attorney who ended up on Nixon’s defense team, so he has an insider’s perspective, in addition, he has, over the last several years, uncovered documents from the special prosecutors’ files, and succeeded, after a years-long court battle, in getting the infamous “Road Map” unsealed as well. From his personal insights and these documents, you will learn that:
- John Dean, instead of being the hero portrayed by the media, was the person who most deserved to go to jail;
- The presiding judge, John Sirica, Time Magazine’s 1973 Man of the Year, was vain, corrupt, and inept; he held numerous ex parte meetings with special prosecutors to discuss trial strategy, and conspired with them to assign himself to oversee the cover-up trial after presiding over the break-in trial so that he could pursue his vendetta against Nixon, in exchange for helping the special prosecutors to deliver the “road map” to the House Judiciary Committee;
- The special prosecutors were highly partisan: in addition to the above mentioned, highly inappropriate ex parte meetings with Sirica, they withheld exculpatory evidence from defense (in particular, how John Dean’s testimony changed over time as a result of his desire to earn immunity), and claimed that they had evidence that did not exist. Moreover, their mandate allowed them to investigate every aspect of the Nixon presidency from the day he entered office. Nothing like that had ever been done to a president before. No doubt, if Johnson or Kennedy had been subjected to similar scrutiny by one hundred partisan prosecutors, their reputations would have suffered just as Nixon’s did.
- The “road map,” which was key to forcing Nixon’s resignation, contains key assertions of undisputed facts that turn out to be baseless, and omissions that would have helped Nixon’s defense.
In short, Watergate, which I have always thought of as an indictment of one of the most corrupt presidents in our history, is better understood as an entirely partisan effort to overturn unsatisfactory election results.

A tour de force!

Geoff Shepard has undoubtedly investigated and written the single most important book on Watergate. He conclusively proves that deeply corrupt “prosecutors,” judges, journalists and politicians staged the coup against a duly-elected president. Watergate and the fall of Nixon directly led to the Democrats revoking military support of South Vietnam following the Paris Peace Accords and the invasion and defeat of South Vietnam. Thank you for your work, Mr. Shepard.

Interesting consolidation but…

In near 50 years, this has not consolidated under so many persons at much more prominent levels within and even without the government??? Unlikely. I think the author’s ending points to coloration…that being a continuation and combination of alternative history.

A very important book

A book that needs to be read in schools and by everyone who ever thought they knew the truth about Watergate

finally, the truth

never knew the whole truth but now we do! it is shameful that Watergate ended the way it didn't have to

Never trust the government

A fascinating review of Watergate, and the power-hungry Nixon haters that mounted a successful coup of the presidency. Perhaps now, 50 years after the fact, the truth will begin to be known.