James Rosen
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Jun
James Rosen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One of my previous books, my first book, was called The Strong Man, John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate, published by Doubleday in 2008.
And it told the story of Richard Nixon's law partner and his campaign manager in 1968 when he won, and the Attorney General of the United States, John Mitchell, who then went to prison for his role in the Watergate cover-up, the highest-ranking U.S.
official ever to serve time.
So I've been at work on Nixon and Watergate for a very long time.
Honestly, I've been obsessed with it since I'm a child.
I'm ashamed to tell you.
I did play Little League.
I had a normal childhood.
I want you to understand, Steve, but I've had this obsession for a long time.
And one of the episodes of the first Nixon term before Watergate that is the most important in his presidency was something that very few people know about today.
It was called the Moore-Radford affair.
And this was the discovery by the White House plumbers.
That was a secret group that was formed to plug news leaks after the release of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.
The plumbers were the ones who broke into the Watergate complex and planted the wiretaps in the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
The plumbers were the ones who broke into the psychiatrist's office for the physician who was treating Daniel Ellsberg, the man that leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.
But one of the other projects that the Plumbers worked on was this Moore-Radford affair.
And what happened was there was a very famous columnist at the time, Jack Anderson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for publishing contents of some White House and Defense Department memoranda and also the minutes taken at a National Security Council meeting
that had occurred just 10 days earlier.
That was one of the most astonishing leaks in the history of the United States government, that Henry Kissinger, running the National Security Council, is having a private meeting with his aides about what to do about the India-Pakistan war.
The United States was publicly neutral, but
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