Now, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Garrett M. Watergate, as the event is called, becomes a shorthand for corruption, deceit, and unanswered questions. The subsequent arrests of five men seeking to bug and burgle the Democratic National Committee offices-three of them Cuban exiles, two of them former intelligence operatives-quickly unravels a web of scandal that ultimately ends a presidency and forever alters views of moral authority and leadership. In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills enters six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that will change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors call police. (Feb.From Garrett Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of the modern era. Expertly researched and assembled, this is a valuable introduction to one of history’s greatest political scandals. Graff skillfully interweaves the perspectives of journalists and law enforcement officials investigating the Watergate break-in with the Nixon team’s attempts to “use the organs of government to cover up their own rogue operation,” and incisively analyzes how the congressional inquiry into the scandal resulted in Democrats and Republicans coming together to uphold the Constitution and limit the powers of the president. Though Nixon’s campaigns had always involved “a certain abnormal level of dirty tricks,” according to Graff, a series of leaks and scandals including the release of the Pentagon Papers helped push his aides to new heights of “skullduggery,” orchestrating break-ins at the Brookings Institution in 1971 and the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate building in 1972.
Haldeman, White House counsel John Dean, and campaign chairman John Mitchell.
Drawing on memoirs, tape recordings, court transcripts, and recently declassified FBI documents, Graff highlights the paranoia and ambition that ran through the Nixon administration, from the distrust between the president and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, to disagreements between chief of staff H.R. Journalist Graff ( The Only Plane in the Sky) sheds new light on the Watergate scandal in this exhaustive history.
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