Charles Colson and the Legal Gambit to Silence Watergate
He was the first of Nixon's inner circle to go to prison, but before the cell door closed, he tried to burn his indictment by claiming the news had poisoned the jury.
By Marcus Boone ·
Watergate
Howard Hughes and the Unreported Cash Pipeline to Bebe Rebozo
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 ·
Maurice Stans and the Deposition of the Nixon Slush Fund
The witnesses were the architects of a political sabotage machine, but the records of their testimony keep the corporate donors and the purpose of the money in the dark
By Marcus Boone ·
Louis Patrick Gray and the ITT Ledger of Political Sabotage
A high-ranking FBI official provided documents to a task force while simultaneously destroying others, leaving a curated record of the Nixon administration's corporate alliances.
By Marcus Boone ·
Eighteen Minutes of Silence and Richard Nixon's Calculated Erasure
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 ·
Nixon's Sold Embassies and the Price of a Diplomatic Title
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 ·
WSPF and the 1974 Inventory of Nixon's White House
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 ·
John Mitchell and the Evidence the Prosecution Refused to Use
The government collected diaries, financial records, and tape transcripts to convict Nixon's chief lieutenant, but a significant portion of that evidence was never introduced in court.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Nixon's Fixers and the Paper Trail of the Deputy Special Prosecutor
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 ·
Archibald Cox and the Void in the Watergate Record
A legal scholar appointed to uncover the truth stopped recording his own calls, leaving a gap in the history of how the Nixon administration fought to bury its crimes
By Miriam Adler ·
Elliot Richardson and the Recusals of the Watergate Force
The records of the force meant to dismantle the Nixon cover-up remained hidden in administrative files, scrubbing the friction of the executive branch from the official story.
By Desmond Okafor ·
9 Principals and the Silence of Richard Nixon
For years, the legal machinery of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force focused on the men who carried out the orders while the man who gave them remained outside this specific circle of defendants.
By Desmond Okafor ·
GSA Gatekeepers and the Screened Records of the Western White House
The prosecutors chasing Richard Nixon's crimes never had raw access to the presidential archives; they were fed a version scrubbed by federal archivists in a process that left a trail of redactions and gaps.
By Marcus Boone ·
GSA Gatekeepers and the Evidence Buried in U.S. v. Mitchell
For years, the full scope of the Watergate break-in was filtered through government screeners before reaching prosecutors, leaving a trail of 'unused' evidence that still hides the authorization chain.
By Harlan Pryce ·
American Shipbuilding Company and the Separate Ledger of Watergate
Kept apart from the main Watergate files for their "complexity," the records of a military-industrial giant show how corporate payouts were weaponized to protect political principals.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A Ghanaian Label and the Secret Ledger of Richard Nixon
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 ·