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Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up

Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up

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The five men caught inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972. The tapes. Deep Throat in the parking garage. The Saturday Night Massacre when Nixon fired the special prosecutor. Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post. Alexander Butterfield revealing the White House recording system. John Dean's testimony. The Smoking Gun tape. Nixon's resignation on August 8, 1974. The scandal that named every scandal since. — a daily series with new episodes every day.© 2026 YesOui.ai 世界 政治・政府
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  • Why John Dean Talked: The Counsel Who Broke the Cover-Up

    Why John Dean Talked: The Counsel Who Broke the Cover-Up
    2026/09/01
    (00:00:00) Why John Dean Talked: The Counsel Who Broke the Cover-Up
    (00:00:53) The Counsel at the Center
    (00:01:51) Building the Cover-Up
    (00:03:03) The Journalists Who Wouldn't Let Go
    (00:04:47) The Taping System No One Was Supposed to Know About
    (00:05:54) Dean Takes the Stand
    (00:07:20) The Saturday Night Massacre
    (00:08:15) The Smoking Gun
    (00:09:14) What Dean's Reckoning Revealed

    He was thirty-one years old, precise with language, and trusted with the legal exposure of the most powerful office in the world. John Dean wasn't on the edge of the Watergate cover-up — he was at its centre. He coordinated hush money, managed the FBI's obstruction, and processed the full picture of what the Nixon White House had done. Which made his eventual decision to testify one of the most consequential acts of the entire scandal.

    In this chapter of Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up, we follow Dean from the night of the June 17, 1972 arrests — when he immediately understood that the thread, if pulled, would unravel upward — through the frantic months of containment that followed. We track Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post as they followed the money, traced the sequential hundred-dollar bills back to Nixon's campaign fund, and met a parking-garage source the world would come to know as Deep Throat.

    Then, in the summer of 1973, everything changed. Alexander Butterfield told the Senate Select Committee that Nixon had been recording himself. Subpoenas followed. Nixon resisted. And John Dean, already sensing the machine turning against him, had to decide whether to protect the presidency or tell the truth.

    This episode examines how institutions quietly push back — through leaks, through testimony, through reporters who treated a bungled break-in as a story that mattered. Watergate wasn't brought down by a single hero. It was brought down by a system, slowly, under pressure, doing what systems sometimes do.

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    13 分
  • Alexander Butterfield's Bombshell: The Secret Tapes That Doomed Nixon

    Alexander Butterfield's Bombshell: The Secret Tapes That Doomed Nixon
    2026/08/31
    (00:00:00) Alexander Butterfield's Bombshell: The Secret Tapes That Doomed Nixon
    (00:01:00) The Break-In
    (00:02:41) Woodward, Bernstein, and the Story That Wouldn't Die
    (00:04:30) The Plumbers and the Culture of Abuse
    (00:05:36) John Dean Speaks
    (00:06:47) The Witness Who Revealed the Tapes
    (00:07:50) The Saturday Night Massacre
    (00:09:04) The Smoking Gun
    (00:10:22) What It Left Behind

    One witness. One question. One answer that changed American history. On July 16, 1973, White House aide Alexander Butterfield told the Senate Watergate Committee that President Nixon had secretly recorded every conversation in the Oval Office. That disclosure transformed Watergate from a case built on testimony into something with teeth — because now there were tapes, and tapes meant proof.

    This episode traces the full arc of how the cover-up unravelled. It begins at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972, where five men — Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, and James McCord — were arrested inside Democratic National Committee headquarters. A piece of tape on a stairwell door latch, spotted by security guard Frank Wills, set the entire chain of events in motion.

    From there, the episode follows Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post as they refused to let the story die — meeting Deep Throat in a Rosslyn parking garage, connecting the burglars to Nixon's re-election committee, and documenting a secret fund financing political sabotage. It examines the White House Plumbers, Nixon's enemies list, and the systematic abuse of power that the Watergate break-in was only one part of.

    Then comes John Dean — Nixon's White House counsel, the man who managed the cover-up — and the moment he realised he was being set up to take the fall. His decision to cooperate with prosecutors would become one of the most consequential acts in the entire scandal.

    This is the chapter where the walls started closing in.

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

    The Plumbers, the Hearings, and the Secrets That Couldn't Stay Buried
    2026/08/30
    (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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    13 分
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