RICHARD NIXON 1973 Watergate (Part 4) , Introducing Magruder, Liddy and Shepard and the other major players in Watergate

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In this episode we start introducing you to the major characters of the Watergate scandal at its roots. We start with the guy who masterminded it all, though mastermind may not be the correct description.
G. Gordon Liddy was a former FBI agent, a lawyer, and it seems fantasy espionage agent. He somehow seems to have bungled his way upwards from a job in the Treasury Department to the Nixon White House and finally on to the Nixon Campaign Staff. He originally was in charge of the efforts to plug leaks at the White House after the Pentagon Papers were released to the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers. He ran the Plumbers Unit as its on the ground operations guy. If a decision needed to be made and it fell to G. Gordon Liddy to make it, it appears Liddy constantly made the wrong one.
We also reintroduce Geoff Shepard, then a policy guy in the Nixon White House he moved over from the Treasury Department just before Gordon Liddy did. He knew Liddy from his days in the Treasury Department and his warnings to his immediate supervisor Egil "Bud " Krogh got largely ignored. In a bit of my own short hand he told Krogh not to walk, but to run, as far away from G. Gordon Liddy as he could and instead Krogh hired Liddy anyway.
And the rest , as we say, is a disproportionate section of every American History book in the land.
In this episode we we will hear the story of how the various characters got where they were and in positions to create the biggest scandal in American History, from Liddy, to E. Howard Hunt, to all the various Cuban burglars who were also later captured in the Watergate. This is the foundation for the disaster to come. At the end, we also will hear from another player, Jeb Magruder, who was supposed to be supervising this train wreck and prevent it from having ever occurred in the first place.