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Watergate's Five O'Clock Shadow: The Truth About the Missing Minutes in Nixon's Tapes

July 03, 2022 Vincent / Dinsdale Season 7 Episode 7
South Mimms U
Watergate's Five O'Clock Shadow: The Truth About the Missing Minutes in Nixon's Tapes
Show Notes

When White House aide, Alexander Butterfield, revealed the existence of recording devices in the White House during the Watergate hearings in 1973, Nixon's fate was sealed. And the missing eighteen and a half minutes in the tapes (once they'd been reluctantly handed over) cast a shadow over the President's character. It ultimate led to his resignation. What happened during those notorious missing minutes? Conspiracy, criminality, chaos? The truth is more suprising than you think.

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