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The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that introduced about
the resignation of Richard Nixon, making a political shockwave that reverberates to this day.
yet as Ken Hughes unearths in his robust new e-book, in all of the hundreds of thousands of hours of
declassified White condo tapes, the president orders a unmarried break-in--and it isn't at the
Watergate complicated. Hughes’s exam of this previous break-in, plans for which the
White apartment eventually scrapped, presents a surprising new standpoint on a protracted historical past of
criminality that lengthy the Vietnam conflict and was once simply in part uncovered through the Watergate
scandal.

As a key participant within the collage of Virginia’s Miller Center
Presidential Recordings software, Hughes has spent greater than a decade constructing and mining the
biggest extant number of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses.
Hughes’s remarkable research has allowed him to unearth a trend of activities by
Nixon going again lengthy sooner than 1972, to the ultimate months of the Johnson management. Hughes
pointed out a transparent narrative line that starts throughout the 1968 crusade, whilst Nixon, concerned
concerning the effect on his presidential bid of the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese, secretly
undermined the negotiations via a Republican fundraiser named Anna Chennault. 3 years
after the election, in an environment of paranoia because of the explosive visual appeal of the
Pentagon Papers, Nixon feared that his treasonous--and politically damaging--manipulation of the
Vietnam talks will be uncovered. Hughes indicates how this worry resulted in the construction of the Secret
Investigations Unit, the "White condominium Plumbers," and Nixon’s initiation of
unlawful covert operations guided through the Oval place of work. Hughes’s unequalled command of the
White condominium tapes has allowed him to construct an issue approximately Nixon that is going a long way past what we
imagine we all know approximately Watergate.

Chasing Shadows is also
to be had as a unique publication that hyperlinks to the big selection of White apartment tapes
released through the Miller heart via Rotunda, the digital imprint of the collage of
Virginia Press. This distinct version permits the reader to maneuver seamlessly from the ebook to the
recordings’ expertly rendered transcripts and to hear audio documents of the
remarkable--and sometimes shocking--conversations on which this darkish bankruptcy in American
background may finally turn.