The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess—and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.
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The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down
An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess—and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.
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The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down

The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down

by Geoff Shepard
The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down

The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down

by Geoff Shepard

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An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess—and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.

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ISBN-13: 9781621573869
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication date: 08/03/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 196,854
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Geoff Shepard is an American lawyer, author, and lecturer. He is best known for his work on the Nixon White House staff and his subsequent efforts to document policy initiatives of the Nixon administration—and to present an alternative view of the Watergate scandal that drove President Nixon from office. Shepard lives with his wife, Saundra, in Philadelphia, PA.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Part I A Basic Watergate Background

Chapter 1 Identifying the Real Wrongdoing 1

Chapter 2 Understanding Watergate 9

Chapter 3 What Went Wrong 27

Part II Collusion

Chapter 4 The Secret Meetings between Judges and Watergate Prosecutors 49

Part III Getting Nikon "At All Cost"

Chapter 5 Staffing the Nixon Impeachment 67

Part IV Denying Due Process to the Watergate Defendants

Chapter 6 A Fair and Impartial Trial Judge 103

Chapter 7 Evenhanded, Nonpartisan Prosecutors 141

Chapter 8 An Untainted and Unbiased Jury 183

Chapter 9 The Automatic Right to an Appeal 199

Part V The View from Here

Chapter 10 So What? 231

List of Appendixes 243

Acknowledgments 317

Notes 319

Annotated Bibliography 335

Index 347

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