Nick Bryant

They all wanted Nixon gone.

Wow.

So that's how Watergate went down.

Wow.

The truth about Watergate, a tale of extraordinary lies and liars.

And the thing about it is, as far as mendacity goes, we think of Nixon as a preeminent liar, but there were far greater liars in Watergate.

than just Nixon.

I mean, John Dean was an amazing liar, and so was Bob Wilber and Carl Bernstein and Ed Bradley.

I mean, those guys told unbelievable lies.

And the thing with Deep Throat, it's so absurd.

When Woodward rolled out Mark Felt with Alzheimer's, he went a bridge too far.

I mean, at that point, when I realized that there's no way that Mark Felt could be Deep Throat because he'd been fired, and there's no way he could have been providing that information, that was the first thing I kind of locked on to in Watergate.

Well, that's what we try to do, writers.

I can't wait to dive into that book.

It's an interesting book because, as I said, I try to make Watergate as accessible as possible.

There are these huge tomes about Watergate, and they're great books, great investigative journalism, but they're so complex.

So my goal was to make it as simple as possible, but just about every sentence has a citation.

As I said earlier, there's 2,238 citations.

And most of the stuff that comes from mainstream media, books, where I was able to triangulate lies, and then thousands of pages of government documentation.

Because the truth is there, you just have to kind of sift through it.