The Fall of Nixon
Watergate and the Crisis of American Democracy, 1972-1974 James Prescott MarloweBy James Prescott Marlowe
Length6h 7m
About this audiobook
Shortly after midnight on June 17, 1972, a security guard found tape covering a door latch in the Watergate complex. He called the police. The five men arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters were carrying surveillance equipment, sequentially numbered bills, and a direct connection to Nixon's re-election committee. What followed was the greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.
James Prescott Marlowe traces the full arc of Watergate across twenty-four chapters — from CREEP's sixty-million-dollar dirty tricks operation through the cover-up's mechanics, the hush-money pipelines, and John Dean's warning to Nixon of a "cancer on the presidency." W. Mark Felt, passed over for the FBI directorship, guided Woodward and Bernstein's Washington Post investigation from inside the bureau as Deep Throat. The Saturday Night Massacre — Nixon firing special prosecutor Archibald Cox, triggering the Attorney General's resignation — accelerated the collapse. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in United States v. Nixon that executive privilege is not absolute. Sixteen days later, Nixon resigned.
The book captures the end in full: the East Room farewell, the double V-sign on the South Lawn, Gerald Ford's "our long national nightmare is over," and the pardon that cost Ford the 1976 election. It closes with the reforms Watergate forced — campaign finance law, FISA, the Church Committee's intelligence oversight revolution — and the constitutional precedent on executive privilege that still governs American law.
Watergate proved democratic institutions can hold even the most powerful official accountable. It also proved that outcome is never guaranteed.
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GenreHistorical Fiction, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length6 hrs 7 mins
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Table of contents
1Introduction
20Chapter 13: Richard Nixon — The Man Who Did This
2Author’s Note
21Chapter 14: John Dean — The Counsel Who Turned
3Prologue: The Break-In
22Chapter 15: H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman — The Palace Guard
4PART ONE: THE CRIME (1972)
23Chapter 16: Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski — The Special Prosecutors
5Chapter 1: CREEP — Nixon's Committee and the Culture of Dirty Tricks
24PART FIVE: THE BROADER WATERGATE
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6Chapter 2: June 17, 1972 — The Watergate Burglary
25Chapter 17: The Plumbers — Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers, and White House Crime
7Chapter 3: The Cover-Up Begins — Hush Money, False Statements, and Obstruction
26Chapter 18: The CIA, FBI, and the Abuse of Government Power
8Chapter 4: The 1972 Election — McGovern, Nixon's Landslide, and the Buried Story
27Chapter 19: The Press — Journalism, Freedom, and the Watergate Story
9PART TWO: THE UNRAVELING (1973)
28Chapter 20: Gerald Ford — The Accidental President and the Pardon
10Chapter 5: Woodward and Bernstein — The Washington Post and Deep Throat
29PART SIX: LEGACIES
11Chapter 6: The Senate Watergate Committee — Sam Ervin and the Public Hearings
30Chapter 21: Congressional Reforms — Campaign Finance, Intelligence Oversight, and FISA
12Chapter 7: The White House Tapes — The Saturday Night Massacre
31Chapter 22: The Imperial Presidency — Executive Power After Watergate
13Chapter 8: The Enemies List — Nixon's America and the Politics of Paranoia
32Chapter 23: The Cynicism Dividend — Watergate and American Trust in Government
14PART THREE: THE END (1973-1974)
33Chapter 24: Nixon Rehabilitated — The Complicated Legacy of a Disgraced President
15Chapter 9: Articles of Impeachment — The House Judiciary Committee
34Epilogue: The Pardon
16Chapter 10: The Supreme Court Decides — United States v. Nixon
35Acknowledgments
17Chapter 11: The Smoking Gun Tape — The President Is Guilty
36Selected Bibliography
18Chapter 12: August 9, 1974 — Nixon Resigns
37About the Author
19PART FOUR: THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
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