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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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  • McCord's CIA Confession: The Sentence That Made Watergate Inevitable

    McCord's CIA Confession: The Sentence That Made Watergate Inevitable
    2026/09/08
    (00:00:00) McCord's CIA Confession: The Sentence That Made Watergate Inevitable
    (00:00:56) The Night of June 17
    (00:02:38) The Plumbers and the Men Behind the Door
    (00:03:48) The Reporters Who Wouldn't Let Go
    (00:05:34) The Taping System No One Was Supposed to Know About
    (00:07:01) John Dean Speaks
    (00:08:07) The Smoking Gun
    (00:09:48) What McCord's Disclosure Set in Motion

    One sentence changed American history. When James McCord leaned forward in Judge John Sirica's courtroom and disclosed his CIA background, the Nixon administration's carefully constructed cover story began to collapse. What the White House had dismissed as a third-rate burglary was suddenly something far more dangerous: evidence of a sitting president using federal intelligence infrastructure to spy on his political opponents.

    This chapter of Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up reconstructs the full architecture of the scandal from the ground up. It begins on the night of June 17, 1972 — security guard Frank Wills, a strip of tape on a door latch, and five men caught inside Democratic National Committee headquarters carrying cameras, lock picks, and sequential hundred-dollar bills. It traces those men back to the White House Plumbers, the covert unit Nixon created after Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, and to the Committee to Re-Elect the President, where McCord served as security coordinator.

    From there, the episode follows the two reporters who refused to let the story die. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post pursued threads the rest of Washington was content to ignore, guided in part by a source Woodward called Deep Throat — later revealed to be FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt — who met only in a darkened Rosslyn parking garage, level B, spot 32D.

    And it arrives at the moment that made everything else unstoppable: White House aide Alexander Butterfield sitting before the Senate Watergate Committee and revealing, almost as an aside, that Richard Nixon had been secretly recording every conversation in the Oval Office. The tapes existed. And everything changed.

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    13 分
  • The Tape on the Door: One Detail That Brought Down a Presidency

    The Tape on the Door: One Detail That Brought Down a Presidency
    2026/09/07
    (00:00:00) The Tape on the Door: One Detail That Brought Down a Presidency
    (00:00:47) Three Attempts, One Fatal Error
    (00:03:06) From Crime Scene to Cover Story
    (00:04:11) Woodward, Bernstein, and the Story Nobody Wanted
    (00:05:09) The Source in the Garage
    (00:06:22) The Tapes
    (00:08:12) John Dean Speaks
    (00:09:00) The Smoking Gun
    (00:09:49) August 9, 1974

    Before the tapes, the hearings, and the resignation, Watergate was a botched break-in on its third attempt. Five men in surgical gloves — Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, and James McCord — were caught inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at 2:30 a.m. on June 17, 1972. Security guard Frank Wills spotted fresh tape on a door latch. A lookout's walkie-talkie was turned down too low. The police arrived. The White House called it a third-rate burglary and hoped the story would die.

    It didn't.

    The money the five men carried — sequential hundred-dollar bills — traced back through a web of secret accounts to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. The cover-up that followed was arguably more damaging than the crime itself: CIA pressure, FBI misdirection, hush-money payments, and a cascade of lies that required every participant to hold their nerve indefinitely.

    At the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein refused to let the story go. They traced the money, knocked on doors, and slowly mapped an operation far larger than a burglary — White House-sanctioned political espionage funded through covert channels. Their most critical source, a senior FBI official Woodward called Deep Throat, met them in a Rosslyn parking garage and kept their reporting on track.

    This episode follows the break-in from its first failed attempt to its fatal third try, through the first hours of the cover-up, and into the early investigative work that would eventually make Nixon's position untenable. The scandal didn't begin with a resignation. It began with a piece of tape on a door.

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    12 分
  • Five Arrests, One Cover-Up: How Watergate Became the Scandal That Named All Scandals

    Five Arrests, One Cover-Up: How Watergate Became the Scandal That Named All Scandals
    2026/09/06
    (00:00:00) Five Arrests, One Cover-Up: How Watergate Became the Scandal That Named All Scandals
    (00:01:24) The Cover-Up Begins
    (00:03:05) What the Press Refused to Drop
    (00:05:06) The Tapes No One Knew About
    (00:06:58) The Saturday Night Massacre
    (00:07:58) Institutions That Held
    (00:09:26) The Smoking Gun and the End
    (00:10:47) The Name That Stuck

    On June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills noticed tape on a door latch at the Watergate complex and called the police. Five men were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters that night. Richard Nixon survived the break-in. What he could not survive was everything he did next.

    This episode traces the full arc of the Watergate cover-up — from Nixon's first instinct to contain the investigation, to the Smoking Gun tape of June 23 that proved he was running the obstruction from day one. You'll hear how the Plumbers unit, created after Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, connected the burglars directly to the White House; how Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post kept pulling on a story the rest of the press had dropped; and how a senior FBI official known as Deep Throat guided Woodward from a parking garage in Rosslyn, Virginia for more than thirty years before his identity was revealed.

    The episode also covers the Senate Watergate Committee hearings of 1973, John Dean's devastating testimony about the enemies list and systematic obstruction of justice, and Alexander Butterfield's bombshell revelation that Nixon had been secretly recording every conversation in the White House.

    This is not a story about a burglary. It is the story of the institutions — the courts, the press, the Senate, the FBI — that refused to let a president bury the truth. The scandal that brought down Nixon didn't just end a presidency. It named every political scandal that came after it.

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    13 分
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