The Exculpatory Tapes - Hear them here for the first time ( Special Edition)

The Richard Nixon Experience

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In this short, special edition broadcast, we give you a taste of some of the exculpatory materials we are going to be delving into over the next two seasons as we look back at Watergate.
These two snippets were tapes that we discovered as we were researching this project in 2022. They did, however , come to light after we had gotten to far along in the process to incorporate them into the then storyline of our podcast. Both would have fit in right about where we are now and so I thought this short special edition would fit in at this point after we highlighted the earlier phone call between Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen and President Richard Nixon.
In our previous episode we let you hear Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen updating the President on what was going on at that moment in time. These snippets of a later set of calls allow you to hear Richard Nixon's reactions to the information he has been given.
These calls are stunningly clear, and also stunningly clear in their opposition to the running narrative that Richard Nixon was trying to cover up the burglary from the start. If anything, they show a President eager to get the honest truth out and into the public. While these are among the clearest of any tapes out there of Nixon working to find the truth and expose it, they are not the only tapes that show that. We will be allowing you to hear them, often in there entirety throughout our highly acclaimed series and we hope, with this special edition, we wet your appetite for the truth, as we begin our 6 month journey back through Watergate on this the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nixon Administration.

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1. Dwight Chapin talks with Dan Balz for the Washington Post on the 50th Anniversary of the Watergate Break in June 2022 (00:00:00)

2. Intro Music (00:01:42)

3. Host Randal wallace welcomes you to this special edition just for the Richard Nixon Experience (00:02:05)

4. Taped phone call between Alexander Haig and President Richard Nixon concerning the selectionof Archibald Cox as the Watergate Special Prosecutor. (00:05:01)

5. Host Randal Wallace discusses the reformation of the Get Hoffa Squad and then introduces a tape segment showing just how exculpatory some of these tapes are and how willing the prosecutors are still willing to tell terminological inexactitudes (00:06:06)

6. Phone call from April 15, 1973 between Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen and President Richard Nixon. (00:08:26)

7. C-Span Washington Journal Broadcast with Geoff Shepard, former Nixon Defense team member, and Jill Wine Banks WSPF Prosecutor , on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate Break in (00:10:32)

8. Host Randal Wallace wraps up this short special edition (00:12:04)

9. Closing theme (00:14:05)