Five Men, a Strip of Tape, and the Fall of a President

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Five Men, a Strip of Tape, and the Fall of a President

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On the night of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills noticed something small and specific: tape on a stairwell door latch at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. That strip of tape set in motion one of the most consequential political scandals in American history — the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon's presidency.

This opening chapter traces the full arc of how five men caught inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters unravelled the Nixon White House. It begins with the burglars themselves — Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, and James McCord — and the clandestine White House unit known as the Plumbers that sent them there. It follows the money through the reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post, sustained by a late-night source in a Rosslyn parking garage the world would come to know as Deep Throat — later revealed as FBI Associate Director Mark Felt.

The episode covers the Senate Watergate hearings, John Dean's devastating testimony, Alexander Butterfield's bombshell revelation of the White House taping system, the Saturday Night Massacre, the Smoking Gun tape, and Nixon's resignation on August 8, 1974.

This is the story of how arrogance, paranoia, and a culture of impunity inside the Nixon administration collapsed under the weight of its own cover-up — and why the word Watergate still defines political scandal more than fifty years later.

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