A close friend of Richard Nixon served as the conduit for untraceable funds from a reclusive industrialist, a paper trail the government siloed to protect the true price of presidential power
By Harlan Pryce ·
A January 1974 hearing focused on who physically wiped a tape, while the order to destroy the evidence remained buried in a curated set of transcripts.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Records of a secret investigation into the auctioning of ambassadorships show how the White House traded sovereign posts for campaign cash, a betrayal of the foreign service.
By Harlan Pryce ·
After Richard Nixon fled the presidency, the legal war for the evidence he left behind was fought through a series of concessions and redacted inventories that remain the only map of what was lost.
By Marcus Boone ·
The attorneys for a resigned president fought a quiet war over which files the law could touch, leaving a map of what Richard Nixon feared most.
By Desmond Okafor ·
For decades, the records of the men who hunted Nixon’s crimes were buried under an impossible label, hiding the link between the Pentagon’s budget and the silencing of dissidents
By Desmond Okafor ·
For years, the targets of seventeen "national security" wiretaps remained nameless; the administrative logs of the Deputy Attorney General show how the government fought to keep the records out of reach.
By Marcus Boone ·
A former president fought to bury his own voice in a legal war against NBC and Warner Communications, leaving a trail of motions that mask the true terror of the recordings.
By Miriam Adler ·
Richard Nixon fought every inch of the investigation into the 1972 DNC burglary, but the papers on the Special Prosecutor's appointment remain a sanitized record of legislative compliance.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Staff-prepared transcripts and meeting notes were handed over to investigators only after a court order, keeping the raw audio and the truth of the conspiracy buried for years
By Marcus Boone ·
A covert plot to strip federal funding from non-supportive elderly advocates remained hidden in files maintained by the White House's most notorious fixers.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Richard Nixon's exit was managed by a curated trail of paperwork that protected the state's secrets while debating whether a disgraced president deserved a federal pension.
By Miriam Adler ·
For decades, Nixon's cover-up was filtered through staff summaries that stripped away the hesitation of witnesses and the logic behind the crime.
By Constance Bell ·
A grand jury forced the White House to surrender recordings of a criminal cover-up, but the gap between the audio and the transcripts suggests a curated truth.
By Harlan Pryce ·
For years, the full extent of the White House tapes remained hidden behind a wall of "confidential" exceptions and lawyer-led filters that decided what the law was allowed to see.
By Desmond Okafor ·
An erased tape and a curated trial kept the full extent of executive sabotage hidden for decades, shielding the presidency by sacrificing the subordinates who took the fall.
By Marcus Boone ·