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02708aam a2200397 i 4500 001 2A4BBEE84D4A11E5A8F59BD0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150828010049 007 n 008 150504s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2015012716 020 $a 1621573281 020 $a 9781621573289 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Shepard, Geoffrey Carroll, $d 1944- 245 14 $a The real Watergate scandal : $b collusion, conspiracy, and the plot that brought Nixon down / $c Geoff Shepard. 264 1 $a Washington, DC : $b Regnery Publishing, $c 2015. 300 $a xxvii, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, facsimiles ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-346) and index. 505 0 $a Part I. A basic Watergate background -- Identifying the real wrongdoing -- Understanding Watergate -- What went wrong -- Part II. Collusion -- The secret meetings between judges and Watergate prosecutors -- Part III. Getting Nixon "at all costs" -- Staffing the Nixon impeachment -- Part Iv. Denying due process to the Watergate defendants -- A fair and impartial trial judge -- Even handed, non-partisan prosecutors -- An untainted and unbiased jury -- The automatic right to an appeal -- Part V. The view from here -- So what? 520 $a "Research has uncovered shocking violations of ethical and legal standards by the "good guys"--including Judge John Sirica, Archibald Cox, and Leon Jaworski. Documents that the Watergate Special Prosecution Force was an avenging army drawn from the ranks of Nixon's most partisan foes. They had the good fortune to work with judges whos shared their animus... Shows that the "smoking gun" conversation, which he himself was the first to transcribe, was taken out of context and completely misunderstood ... Crimes were committed, and an attempt was made to cover them up. But by trampling on the defendants' right to due process...denied the American people the assurance that justice was done."-- $c from jacket. 541 $d 20150825. 600 10 $a Nixon, Richard M $q (Richard Milhous), $d 1913-1994. 650 $a Conspiracies $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1969-1974. 650 0 $a Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. 655 7 $a History. 941 $a 7 952 $l CJPC482 $d 20240202015903.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203015002.0 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20210924013607.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20190328010914.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104065517.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20160520033227.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20151111013216.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A4BBEE84D4A11E5A8F59BD0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search