James Rosen

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Morning Wire · No One Thought He Could Do It — But Nixon Won The Culture War · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

It's great to be with you, Lyndon.

Thank you.

Sure.

Well, and thank you for having me on.

The article you're mentioning ran on February 8 in the New York Times, and it was about 6,000 words long.

So when you get to read it, and you can find it through my X feed at JamesRosenTV, just bring a very big cup of java with you and settle in.

Watergate was so important.

I call Watergate the birth of the modern.

Because all of the things we see when presidencies run into trouble in the modern age were first glimpsed in Watergate, where you have a kind of an unholy alliance between the news media doing saturation coverage, a special prosecutor, a whole task force of lawyers buttressed by the investigative agencies and zeal of the FBI.

And, of course, in the case of President Nixon, his taping system, it's something we've seen kind of repeat itself over the years, although Watergate remains unique because, after all, at the end of the two-year scandal, President Nixon resigned from office, and he remains to this day the only president not to finish his term due to illness, death, or assassination.

At the time, it was held out as an example of where the system worked.

that we had a bad actor in the Oval Office and through a Senate investigative committee and aggressive news media and determined prosecutors, we were able to rid ourselves of the bad actor.

In truth, Richard Nixon was an exceptional president and he himself, after he left office, admitted in a famous set of interviews with the British journalist David Frost that were broadcast in 1977 that he had been guilty in Watergate, that he had

failed to discharge the duties of the president which is to enforce the laws and that instead he became as the watergate investigation intensified kind of a lawyer for the defense for his top aides rather than trying to help the authorities determine where where culpability resided

But nonetheless, my article shows that at the same time, Nixon was the most spied on president in modern times and that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top uniformed military officers in the country, ran a spy ring against President Nixon and his White House National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger.

for a year in wartime in which 5,000 classified documents were stolen from the Nixon-Kissinger NSC and delivered into the hands of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

It was the plumbers, the White House plumbers, who discovered this.

That was a kind of an informal name given to an investigative unit that was formed inside the White House to plug news leaks, thus plumbers.

These were the same people who broke into the Watergate office complex and installed wiretaps inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

uh the cover-up of that of the origins of that crime was the watergate cover-up that wound up toppling president nixon from office the plumbers were the same ones who broke into the office of the psychiatrist uh out in los angeles of daniel ellsberg the man who leaked the pentagon papers to the new york times they were focused on some areas of legitimate national security work and as president nixon testified in the seven pages

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