Geoff Shepard | Watergate
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Learn the inside story of the Watergate scandal.
This lecture is part of a series on American Political Scandals from the time of the Founding to today. Political scandals have occurred throughout American history. But has our view of corruption changed? And have modern ways of dealing with corruption worked?
Geoff Shepard is an author and lawyer. He earned his B.A. from Whittier College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. In 1969, he was selected to be a White House Fellow and assigned to the Treasury Department, where he worked under Paul Volcker, then undersecretary for monetary affairs. He then joined John Ehrlichman’s Domestic Council staff at the Nixon White House, where he served for five years. He also worked on President Nixon’s Watergate defense team, where he was principal deputy to the President’s lead lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt. In that capacity, he helped transcribe the White House tapes and ran the document rooms holding the seized files of H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and John Dean. Mr. Shepard is the author of The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down.
Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.
The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.
By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.
I have studied Watergate for over 20 years, and as John Erlichmann once said " I did not begin to fully understand Watergate until long afterward, which is not to say I fully understand it now". Watergate was a highly compartmentalized matter in which most parties had no idea of what other parties did or knew. Again as per John Erlichmann, "It would take 12 people truthfully answering around 50 questions to know all that is to be known. These people know al lot and have never spoken, or have never spoken truthfully. Even some of the major player only knew bits and pieces of what was really going on".
Maybe. But you can be sure the web of conspirators who intended to use the break-in to unseat a man they considered unworthy to hold the same office as JFK knew exactly what each other was doing. In fact I contend that the death of JFK was something the Ds have held against the Rs ever since and have been punishing us accordingly.
Thank goodness for You Tube where we can see these truths.
Discovered this lecture after GS interview with Tucker. Watergate was a coup. And not the first ... or last.
This is a very sad story about hard-ball politics and a criminal prosecutorial process that lead ultimately to the resignation of our duly-elected president. The speaker does a great service to history and truth by telling this side of the story for the first time.
Alex Butterfield's revelation of the White House taping system is what really started Nixon's inexorable slide towards his forced resignation from office. He had no choice. Had he stayed in office, he would've been impeached in the House and convicted in the Senate. As a result, he would've lost his $60,000/year lifetime pension after leaving office.
Bravo, Geoff Shepard.
I knew a guy who worked with Nixon and he said he was not a very personable guy. Definitely no saint as far as abuse of power. However he said he cared about America and was a genius. Was so smart a guy he was scary.
Nixon was no Bill Clinton, that's for sure. He wasn't the kind of guy with whom you wanted to sit down and have a beer on a hot summer day, or at any time for that matter. However, if you wanted to have an incisive, tour de horizon discussion on international relations and US foreign policy, there's never been anyone like Richard M. Nixon, before or since. Kissinger got a lot of credit for Nixon's policy of "Triangulation", which essentially split China from the USSR and worked them against one another, but that was total Nixon. Up until Nixon's administration, China and the USSR were seen in State Department circles as being inseparable insofar as both were totalitarian states based on communism. However, there were serious, fundamental ideological rifts between the two which Nixon adroitly exploited. You can see Nixon's use of triangulation tactics in his dismantling of the democratic front-runners in 1972.
@@CaesarInVawell, I’d much rather sit down with Nixon than Clintons or Bushes or Carters.
Excellent presentation. I learned a lot. Thank you.
Watch Known and Unknowns with Hugh Hewitt and Geoff Shepard at the Nixon Foundation in 2019 it is 8 great interviews and equilogue
Do they discuss the unknowns that are unknown? (Per Donald Rumsfeld)
Interested in hearing more about Watergate. Did not really understand it back then, Only have noted a few things since.
BONUS! --> "Trigger Warning for Snowflakes" OH BOY, This IS going to be Good! Thanks!
Karen O
You and I both!
Boy its a good thing nothing like this could happen now!
/sarc
It happened to Trump and J6 defenders.
What did his former boss say to him in the hospital that he is waiting to say in his next book?
Fascinating
12:58 "what I have covered up" ... He meant to say: what he discovered or what he has taken the cover off. But, of course, a defensive lawyer covers his client.
I remember hearing that, but let it pass for the moment. It was an odd thing to say, i thought. You say 'he meant' =]
YES, Must now check back [too] - i forgot. Thanks! > 'He Uncovered' < - and - IT DID & IS HAPPENING AGAIN. =[
agree@@kareno8634
John Dean tried to warn Nixon that the coverup should stop, but Nixon refused his advice, when Dean realized he was being set up to be the scapegoat for organizing the entire coverup, he advised Nixon, Erlichman, and Haldeman, that he was going to start cooperating with Federal prosecutors. Erlichman replied saying, " the smartest thing John could do is go down there and appear to be cooperating with them," but as Dean says, they did not realize he was going to tell the truth!
Dean is lower than pond scum.
This is seems exactly what this speaker is saying didn’t happen because Nixon didn’t know of it so how could he cover it up?
Completely false. John Dean was the architect of the coverup and colluded with Nixon's enemies to falsely portray himself as a whistleblower to escape punishment and falsely accuse innocent people.
that is what Dean told you
He follows up each claim, not with a slide showing the document he found that proves his claim, but with the statement, “it’s in the records.” How is this talk beneficial to the students?
In other words "i'm not lying like a democrat"
Because you can look up the proof.
I'm going to listen to this whole thing bc I'm a Watergate addict, but an old white dude saying "snowflakes" in the first couple of minutes almost lost me.
Trump 2024 ‼️🇺🇲⚖️🙏
Interesting speaker and presentation. He talks about points that have been ignored or glossed over. I saw his 8 part interview with Hugh Hewitt. However, I get the feeling that Shepherd is trying to make Nixon look like some innocent lamb that was done in by a pack of big bad wolves and that ain't it
It was a coup that overturned our elected official.
Oh please God.......this man has no soul or grasp of the truth. I suggest that everyone watch the testimony given to the House and Senate committees. It contradicts everything he says.
He is sadly poisoning our youth with his pathetic revisionism. God.....how awful he is.
Yes! I'm not buying any of his words
Another "true believer" in staged government presentations.
@@jimmyham5521 Wow......did we land on the moon?.....is the earth flat?....
Yeah, this Hillsdale College is pretty bogus. Trump University without the bad haircut.
No one attends Hillsdale and yet "it" is remarkably well funded..... It's almost like billionaires found a place to tell "their side of the story".
So he presented the defense side - result zero - no you have to hear the prosecutors side and then you might be able to come to a conclusion - the way the law works in the U.S.
The prosecution side has been represented for the past fifty years.
Algorithm.
How'd u aporoach the Watergate scandal, Kaitleen, if u were assigned to re - open the proverbial Pandora's box, in order to srparate the chaff from the wheat, & present to the current generation in particular, the really real narrative...?
First things first, u know what Jacob, I'd train the investigative lens upon this guy, Geoff Shepard...
I really don't like the way he delivers his supposed sensational expiose, narrative, i mean like, what's he trying to convey to his audience, apart from promoting his book on the grand collusion, conspiracy & the cover-up....?
Is he trying to project himself as a victim, a martyr, a wronged Adolf Hitler.... aping the Fuhrer's dialogue delivery style, rather poorly, unsuccesfully...
Wasn't he invited by R Nixon himself to the White house, Kaitleen?
Precisely, that's what i really find very fishy u see, Jacob...?
Apparently he brags of catchung R Nixon's attn while R N visited his college, or some place... & that's how he inveigked himself in a plum cushy position in the WH... working with Paul Volcker in the Treasury dept...
Besides later, subsequent to R Nixon's resignation, did he not join a giant Insurance corporation, where he managed to stick around for decades...?
What're the key words, figures, clues we need to focus upon & decipher, in the R Nixon saga, Jacob?
U tell me Kaitleen...
First & foremost, wth is this term... Water-gate?
nxt is... the so called, **burglary in the DNC office in the WH...?
the CIA & the FBI figures are a mandatory, obligatory, shady, unsavoury cast in any & every WH scandal & sleaze, soooh no need to bother too much abt them, atleast for now....
The notorious "Saturday night massacre".... what was it exactly apart from the widely published gobbledygook insipid tale of sacking A Cox.... by President Nixon...
above all, who or what is this "Deep throat"....?
i'd realky not waate time over the much over hyped, lionised, glamourisedly glorified, 2, sensational investigators from WaPo... who were they, do u recalk the names, Jacob...?
Uhhmmm, a guy, aahhh, B W & C B or sime B C... & yeeaah initially there were 3 guys.... these two blokes chose to leave him behind, why? to hog all the limeliggt, footage, glory, royalty from books published?
anyways, it'd be more worthwhile to re direct our audience to the movie, where, the Exec editor, Ben Bradlee & Catharene Greene played by Forest Gump & Meryl Streep...
The Post, movie... aaahhaa
& off course the thriller documentary - Nixon - role essayed by the inimitable Sant A Hopkins...!!!
Yeeeaah, those who wish ti be led astray by the glorified, lionised, sensationalised individual fabricated, assembled "super-heroes" could croowd source funds to erect giant statues of the 2 or 3 WaPo blokes...
They could enlist the unparalleled domain expertise of the innumerable, documented & ten times more undocumented, SW Asians ie Indians & their neighbourhood Islamic republicans, in lionising, glorifying, deifying, or demonising, wo men with feet of clay, & above all erecting larger than life statues...!!!
And now we could begin to focus on the real, true blue villains in this historic saga, R Nixon - Kissinger....
I promise u Jacob it'd be a most fascinating, eeply satisfyng, piktire that'd emerge....
Shepard is plainly a Liar.
I find your statement baseless of any evidence, you sound like a little man in search of a chair to stand on. In plain English that you would understand, you’re a idiot.
No. He is not.
What about all the documents as proof?
😂😂😂 I didn’t hear anything about the missing minutes on the tape. I it’s been a long time. I was very young man when this was happening, but wasn’t there 18 minutes missing from the tape I mean, just saying.