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Watergate Revisited with Garrett Graff

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Nixon's Watergate - Why Didn't Nixon Just Order the Tapes Destroyed?

Watergate would not have evolved from the clumsy break in and the arrest to nixon's ultimate resignation without the famous tapes. Nixon had started his presidency by tearing out all of the recording devices that lindon johnson had scattered over across the white house. He becamea concerned that he wasn't going to get credit for his own brilliance, writes David Frum.

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