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

And I think this is important not just for getting straight what happened in Nixon's time, but also for assessing modern claims by President Trump and his supporters about the existence of what was used to be called the permanent bureaucracy, now better known as the deep state.

They were still classified.

They hadn't been declassified.

What I learned in obtaining these seven pages was that, in fact, they were declassified in 2012, the year after the rest of the transcript, but no one until me last year ever asked for them.

And so there's some irony in that, but nonetheless, they were kept secret for 30, it was classified for 37 years after the fact.

And the reason is because of the contents.

Here you had ex-president Nixon testifying before eight Watergate prosecutors, two members of the Washington grand jury and a stenographer, all of them flown out to San Clemente, California, where he lived to take his testimony.

This was the first time in 1975, this was the first time

that any president had ever appeared before the grand jury in any form.

And this was also, it turned out, the only time that Richard Nixon ever testified in depth about Watergate under oath.

Now, the 297 pages were mostly given over to five subjects.

One of them, for example, the famous 18 and a half minute gap that was found on one of the Watergate tapes.

But near the end of the 11 hours over two days, near the end of the second day, a young special prosecutor opened up a new subject.

called the Radford Project.

And it was about the wiretapping of this yeoman once the plumbers found out what he had done.

And Nixon cuts the guy off and he says, no, no, no.

This was the most sensitive project of my presidency.

And the president's description of why Yeoman Radford was wiretapped

what all that Radford knew from his travels with Henry Kissinger and his theft of 5,000 classified documents, the reason why neither the yeoman nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs were ever criminally prosecuted, because they knew too much in a sense, and also because President Nixon

In an era when Vietnam veterans were returning back home to U.S.

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