Author Ray Locker joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the new book, Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him From Office. Locker delves into the role of General Alexander Haig in the administration of Richard Nixon. In this episode, Locker and Patrick cover Haig's actions through the end of May 1973. Was Al Haig a major player in the downfall of Nixon? This is part … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 108 – Reassessing Watergate with Geoff Shepard (Part Two)
Author Geoff Shepard is back with S.T Patrick to continue their discussion of Watergate. In tonight's episode, Shepard covers, in depth, the problems of the Watergate-era biographies, how and why the Nixon tapes are misunderstood so often, the infamous 18 1/2-minute gap, the "smoking gun" tape, why Dean accused Nixon of stonewalling after Dean himself had encouraged Nixon to … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 102 – Reassessing Watergate with Geoff Shepard
Author, attorney, and Nixon administration insider Geoff Shepard joins S.T. Patrick to reassess the figures and events of the Watergate era. Shepard, the author of The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down, is an expert on the legal malfeasance of the public figures involved, but he also knew many of the administration officials … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 037 – Nixon’s Gamble
RAY LOCKER author of Nixon's Gamble, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss the risk President Richard Nixon took in sacrificing transparency and unity for secrecy and potential success. The gamble, Locker writes, was "to do it all in secret before the weight of the secrets crushed him." Locker addresses the reason for secrecy, changes in the national security apparatus, Nixon's trusted … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 029 – E. Howard Hunt, Watergate, and the JFK Assassination
SAINT JOHN HUNT joined S.T. Patrick on episode 029 of the Midnight Writer News Show to discuss E. Howard Hunt, Watergate, and the JFK assassination. Hunt is the eldest son of two CIA spies. The Watergate affair sent his father, E. Howard Hunt, to prison, and it killed his mother, Dorothy Hunt. In 2007, Hunt released a tape of his the father's last confession, a confession which … [Read more...]