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The Plumbers, the Hearings, and the Secrets That Couldn't Stay Buried

The Plumbers, the Hearings, and the Secrets That Couldn't Stay Buried

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(00:00:00) The Plumbers, the Hearings, and the Secrets That Couldn't Stay Buried
(00:00:58) A Third-Rate Burglary
(00:02:10) The Man in the Garage
(00:03:49) The Plumbers and the Pattern
(00:05:43) The Senate Hearings and the Witness
(00:07:24) The Saturday Night Massacre
(00:08:45) The Smoking Gun
(00:09:49) August 9, 1974
(00:10:37) The Name That Named Every Scandal

On the night of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills noticed a piece of tape on a door latch at the Watergate complex. That small detail set in motion one of the greatest political scandals in American history.

In this chapter of Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up, we follow the story from the moment five men were caught crouching behind desks inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters — dressed in business suits, wearing surgical gloves, carrying cameras, listening devices, and sequential hundred-dollar bills — through the slow, grinding investigation that refused to die.

Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post kept pulling threads the rest of the press had dropped. Their anonymous source, later revealed as FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt — Deep Throat — met Bob Woodward in a Rosslyn parking garage to steer the reporting toward the White House. Executive editor Ben Bradlee kept publishing under legal pressure and direct hostility from the Nixon administration.

But the break-in was never the whole story. The Nixon White House had created a secret extralegal unit called the Plumbers — formed after Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers — tasked with plugging leaks, discrediting enemies, and running surveillance operations with no legal authority. The DNC burglary was one operation inside a pattern of institutional abuse that stretched across the entire administration.

By 1973, the Senate Select Committee was holding televised hearings watched by millions. John Dean was about to testify. And the secrets that couldn't stay buried were running out of places to hide.

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