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The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down Hardcover – Illustrated, August 3, 2015

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“It’s the biggest Watergate bombshell to hit since the Nixon tapes in 1973—with implications at once historic and relevant today.” —JAMES ROSEN, national bestselling author and legendary journalist

THESE JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS WERE DETERMINED TO GET NIXON"AT ALL COSTS."

“The system worked"—Carl Bernstein’s famous assessment of Watergate—turns out to be completely wrong. Powerful new evidence reveals that in the prosecution of the most consequential scandal in American history, virtually nothing in the justice system worked as it should.

The roles of heroes and villains in Watergate were assigned before Marine One carried Richard Nixon into exile on August 9, 1974. But Geoff Shepard’s patient and persistent research has uncovered shocking violations of ethical and legal standards by the "good guys”—including Judge John Sirica, Archibald Cox, and Leon Jaworski.

The Watergate prosecutors’ own files reveal their collusion with the federal judges who tried their cases and heard their appeals—professional misconduct so extensive that the pretense of a fair trial is now impossible to maintain.

Shepard documents that the Watergate Special Prosecution Force was an avenging army drawn from the ranks of Nixon’s most ardent partisan foes. They had the good fortune to work with judges who shared their animus or who quickly developed a taste for the media adulation showered on those who lent their power to the anti-Nixon cause.

In the end, Nixon’s fall was the result of the “smoking gun” tape recording in which he appeared to order a cover-up of the Watergate burglary. Yet in a stunning revision of the historical record, Shepard shows that that conversation, which he himself was the first to transcribe, was taken out of context and completely misunderstood—an interpretation with which Nixon’s nemesis John Dean concurs.

Crimes were committed, and an attempt was made to cover them up. But by trampling on the defendants’ right to due process, the Watergate prosecutors and judges denied the American people the assurance that justice was done and destroyed the historical reputation of an exceptionally accomplished president and administration. This book will challenge everything you think you know about the Watergate scandal.
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"Document by document, Shepard builds an ironclad case against the very prosecutors who drove Nixon from office."
--HUGH HEWITT, host of The Hugh Hewitt Show

"The Real Watergate Scandal is one of the most valuable books ever published on the Nixon presidency. Geoff Shepard's intrepid archival research has unearthed documents that expose, for the first time, evidence of deeply disturbing collusion between the Watergate special prosecutors and the presiding judge in the Watergate criminal trials. It's the biggest Watergate bombshell to hit since the Nixon tapes in 1973--with implications at once historic and relevant today."
--JAMES ROSEN, Fox News chief Washington correspondent and author of The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate

"Watergate was a coup d'état that overturned the largest landslide in American history and destroyed a president who had humiliated the liberal establishment. Geoff Shepard's investigative work has unearthed buried elements of the plot that brought down the thirty-seventh president."
--PATRICK J. BUCHANAN, author of The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority

"There are few books which I would call genuinely revelatory and indispensable. This is one of them. If you love America you must read this book."
--BEN STEIN, actor and political commentator

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"Document by document, Shepard builds an ironclad case against the very prosecutors who drove Nixon from office."
HUGH HEWITT, host of The Hugh Hewitt Show
"The Real Watergate Scandal is one of the most valuable books ever published on the Nixon presidency. Geoff Shepard's intrepid archival research has unearthed documents that expose, for the first time, evidence of deeply disturbing collusion between the Watergate special prosecutors and the presiding judge in the Watergate criminal trials. It's the biggest Watergate bombshell to hit since the Nixon tapes in 1973with implications at once historic and relevant today."
JAMES ROSEN, Fox News chief Washington correspondent and author of The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
"Watergate was a coup d'etat that overturned the largest landslide in American history and destroyed a president who had humiliated the liberal establishment. Geoff Shepard's investigative work has unearthed buried elements of the plot that brought down the thirty-seventh president."
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN, author of The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
"There are few books which I would call genuinely revelatory and indispensable. This is one of them. If you love America you must read this book."
BEN STEIN, actor and political commentator"

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regnery History; Illustrated edition (August 3, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1621573281
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1621573289
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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    Geoff Shepard holds degrees from Whittier College and Harvard Law School. He came to Washington upon graduation in 1969, when he was awarded a White House Fellowship, one of the youngest ever selected for this prestigious award. He then joined the Domestic Council at the Nixon White House, where he stayed for five years, becoming associate director in 1972.

    Geoff also served as deputy counsel on Nixon's Watergate defense team, during which he helped to transcribe the White House tapes; ran the Document Room holding the seized files of H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Dean.; and staffed presidential counselors Bryce Harlow and Dean Burch on Watergate matters. He testified as a chain-of-custody witness at the Plumbers Trial and was subpoenaed for the same purpose at the Cover-up Trial. He has a clearance letter from the Special Prosecutor stating that he had never been investigated by their office.

    Geoff has written three Watergate books, the most recent being published this fall.

    Book I. The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President, Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy (Penguin Sentinel, 2008) details how members of the Kennedy family political dynasty successfully exploited the Watergate Break-in to pave the way for the restoration of Camelot, via Senator Edward Kennedy's expected 1976 presidential run.

    Book II. The Real Watergate Scandal, Collusion, Conspiracy and the Plot that brought Nixon Down (Regnery, 2015) discloses and discussed documents Geoff uncovered in the internal files of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force that are maintained at our National Archives. These show that prosecutors were meeting secretly with Watergate judges to work out issues in advance of trial, agreed to specific steps to enable Judge John Sirica to name himself to preside at the Cover-up Trial, and improperly kept helpful evidence from Watergate defense lawyers.

    Book III. Geoff's third book will detail startling issues with prosecutors' secret "Road Map," which they used to convince grand jurors to name Nixon a co-conspirator and to convince the House Judiciary Committee to recommend his impeachment. The Road Map remained secret until the end of 2018, when it was unsealed in response to Geoff's court petition.

    Learn more on his website at www.ShepardOnWatergate.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Proof David Frost a Bad Interviewer
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019
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The most compelling aspect of this book is that it gives an innocent explanation for the "smoking gun" tape. In the
David Frost interview, Mr. Nixon said that he lacked "a corrupt motive" an essential element of an obstruction of justice charge. Mr. Nixon then said his motive was "political". What did that mean, and is "political" just another way to pronounce "corrupt"? This book answers the question, pretty convincingly, that the motive was innocent and well intended. This alone makes the book worthwhile. If the smoking gun tape was actually proof of an innocent state of mind, instead of a corrupt one, would things have turned out differently? The House was about to vote on already recommended Articles of Impeachment before the "smoking gun" was revealed, and they would likely have voted to impeach anyway. Reading the proposed Articles now, in this book, they seem trivial. The book is heavy on legal process being denied and abused for the "top" three criminal defendants in Watergate, and the book is tedious but original in that respect. It would have been better to spend time on how the tapes were transcribed, why and where they are ambiguous and an explanation of the 18 minuet gap. The author seems to have been in a position to know, and it was disappointing not to have learned more about that from this account of Watergate.
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Charles L. Black
5.0 out of 5 stars True history
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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Excellent lesson on what really took place when and why President Nixon resigned from office.
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rhatican
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly worthwhile revelations
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2015
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Mr. Shepard has uncovered some truly interesting (and disturbing) new information about the unethical ways in which the prosecutors and judges conducted themselves behind the scenes of the central Watergate trials. I think he takes things a bit far when he, essentially, deems these of a sufficient gravity to extend a blanket exculpation to President Nixon and the highest-ranking subordinates (Mitchell, Haldeman, and Ehrlichman) but we all fall prey to our enthusiasms, don't we? A must read for serious students of the scandal.
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Linda S Fox
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and Informative
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2022
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The story you DIDN'T get from the media. This was the forerunner of the "Get that GOP -----" plan of attack.
Forget Due Process. Forget Judicial Impartiality. This was a SAVAGE attack on the protections due anyone investigated or indicted.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can't even trust our Courts
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2022
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To read this history of the Watergate affair is to realize that justice was never the issue where the prosecution was concerned. Even the judge hearing the case of White House suppression of evidence and refusal to cooperate with the FBI was prejudiced from the outset, violating his own oath to find Nixon guilty of something. In short, what is revealed is that the Left has never played by any rules of right and truthful conduct.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Analysis of the Watergate Scandal
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2022
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The Watergate Scandal that we lived through in the 1970’s still has effects on the political wars to this day. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Geoff Shepard’s analysis of those events as he brings light to many of the back stories that the public was never aware of. Since Shepard was actually part of Nikon’s team at the time, his perspective is most interesting. Parallels to current political wars are there if one looks for them.
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Edward A. Hayes
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book that should be read by all lawyers and historians
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2015
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This is an extremely well written and well documented review of the Watergate prosecutions. It provides new insights and analysis. Geoff Shepard is a gifted writer and a skilled lawyer who demonstrates convincingly that none of the Watergate defendants got due process because of a biased and out of control trial judge and hyper-partisan and overzealous special prosecutors. He proves his case beyond doubt that there was improper communication, collaboration, and collusion between Judge Sirica and the Watergate Special Prosecutors. Sadly, even the appellate court discredited itself. Whatever you think you know about Watergate, you will find new information and insights in this must read book. Ed Hayes
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3.0 out of 5 stars SO WHAT?
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2017
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Although my opinions are pretty much the same as the Geoff Shepard I cannot say that I got much out of this book. The author goes into detail about the abuses of Nixon's enemies and the Watergate prosecutors who set out to destroy a Republican President whom they despised. Shepard points out inconsistencies in the prosecutors' case and how they colluded with liberal judges in the District of Columbia -- especially John Sirica -- to ensure top Nixon aides were convicted. He objects to how their rights were violated and how the system was stacked for an unfair and unjust trial.

Although I may agree with much of what Shepard wrote I have to ask a simple question --

So what?

Shepard apparently wants the case to be reopened so that Nixon will be given a fairer hearing over his actions during Watergate. He wants Nixon's top staffers to be looked upon in a more different and positive manner. He feels what happened to them was unjust and their reputation should be exonerated. He wants today's Federal Government to correct the historical narrative about the Nixon Administration.

Although I wish it would happen I know it will not. Seriously even if he made a strong case in favor of Nixon and his staff nothing will happen. Even if 200 million Americans were to read Shepard's books and agree that Nixon was done wrong there are just way too many other issues going on today to waste resources over something that happened over 40 years ago. There will be no groundswell of support to re-opening the case and undoing what happened. A Democratic Administration would certainly not make any effort to rehabilitate the Nixon Administration and a Republican Administration has nothing to gain. We have had over fifty years of conspiracy theories pertaining to the Kennedy Assassination and nothing has happened to change the official verdict that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. This is either because the Government will never admit to a conspiracy or maybe Lee Harvey Oswald did act alone.

Move on.
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