The Nixon Conspiracy

Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President

De: Geoff Shepard

Narrado por: Charles Constant

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

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.

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.

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.

corruption of the prosecution team

makes the argument of just how corrupt governemnt really is.. and had been for generations. A+

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.

Illuminating.

All this info about break-ins reminds me of the pairs of strange men who kept showing up at the door of our house in Bethesda asking to borrow my father's lockpicking kit. They looked like feds, so I always assumed they were looking for deniability for their agency in case their operation went sideways.
These borrowings went on throughout the 60's. When my father died in 1968 a pair of the mystery men showed up to say they had better take the kit for good now.
So who was breaking into what?

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.

Tremendously well done

I learned that Nixon was railroaded be democrats. It’s sad what the prosecutors and judges did to Richard Nixon and the country. It’s what democrats do.