Five Men, One Tape, and the Break-In That Broke a Presidency
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Five Men, One Tape, and the Break-In That Broke a Presidency
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(00:00:48) Who Built the Plumbers
(00:02:07) The Enemies and the Apparatus
(00:03:15) Three Attempts and One Fateful Mistake
(00:05:00) The Arrests and the First Revelation
(00:06:02) Woodward, Bernstein, and the Story That Wouldn't Die
(00:07:43) The Tapes No One Was Supposed to Know About
(00:08:58) The Saturday Night Massacre
(00:09:51) The Smoking Gun
(00:10:53) The End of the Presidency
It started with a piece of tape on a door latch. On the night of June 16 into the early hours of June 17, 1972, five men with intelligence backgrounds and White House backing entered the Democratic National Committee headquarters inside the Watergate complex in Washington D.C. Their third attempt at the job. Their last.
This episode takes you inside the creation of Nixon's secret Special Investigations Unit — the Plumbers — tracing how a furious president's response to the Pentagon Papers leaks produced a covert apparatus that operated outside legal boundaries. You'll meet the operatives, understand the enemies list, and follow the chain of authorization that ran from the break-in team straight back to senior White House officials.
The story of the Watergate burglary is often framed as a tale of political ruthlessness. What the evidence actually shows is something almost harder to believe: a clumsy, repeatedly botched operation carried out by men who taped doors wrong, turned walkie-talkie volumes down too low, and left sequential hundred-dollar bills in their pockets when they were arrested. Security guard Frank Wills spotted the tape. The police arrived. James McCord told the judge he was recently retired from the CIA.
That one answer changed everything. The Nixon White House moved quickly to dismiss it as a third-rate burglary. But the fingerprints were already on the wall — and the cover-up that followed would prove far more destructive than the crime itself.
Chapter 9 of Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up.
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