James Rosen
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So my first book was called The Strongman, John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate.
And I'm ashamed to tell you it took me 17 years of part-time work to research it, write it, and publish it.
It was published in 2008.
And it's not your father's history of Watergate.
It's very decidedly revisionist.
It asserts, for example, that the break-in was actually ordered by John Dean, not John Mitchell, that Dean did so because his wife had some affiliation with a call girl ring that was operating nearby the Watergate in 1972.
And all of this has been documented and vetted.
More recently, I published an article in the New York Times on Super Bowl Sunday of this year.
And after our program is over, I will put a link to this article up on my X feed at James Rosen TV.
It's 6,000 words.
Your average New York Times op-ed is only about 800 words.
And it's pretty extraordinary.
Basically, I was able to gain access to seven pages of
of grand jury testimony by ex-president Richard Nixon when he was interrogated by the grand jury in San Clemente, California.
This is after Nixon resigned, after he was pardoned by Gerald Ford.
The Watergate Special Prosecution Force sent eight prosecutors plus two members of a grand jury and a stenographer out to California, and they interrogated ex-president Nixon under oath
for 11 hours over two days' time in June 1975.
That was kept secret under grand jury secrecy rules.
In 2011, the National Archives released the transcript of those 11 hours of testimony by ex-President Nixon.