Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up
Smoking Gun: The Tapes, the Massacre, and the End Nixon Couldn't Escape
Sep 2, 202615 minS0
By the summer of 1973, the Watergate investigation had already consumed the Nixon White House for over a year. But no single revelation broke the cover-up open — it was a sequence of body blows, each one landing before the last had been absorbed. Episode 7 of Watergate: The Nixon Cover-Up traces that sequence from its pivot point: the moment a mid-level aide named Alexander Butterfield told the Senate Watergate Committee that Richard Nixon had been secretly recording every conversation in the Oval Office.<br /><br />Before that disclosure, the investigation was gridlocked. John Dean had delivered 245 pages of damning testimony — placing Nixon pers...
