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 036 – Watergate and the White House Call Girl
Author PHIL STANFORD joins S.T. Patrick to discuss Watergate, prostitution, and John & Maureen Dean. One of the perpetual questions of Watergate is that of motive. Why did the Watergate break-ins occur? What were the burglars looking for? And who ordered the break-ins? Are the rumors of a call girl ring true? Stanford, author of White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate … [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...]