60 Minutes claims former President Richard Nixon “sought to destroy” his presidential tapes. Verdict: Misleading There is no evidence that Nixon “sought to destroy” his presidential tapes.

The case for Fed Independence in the Nixon Tapes You know Watergate, but do you know Fedgate? The more subtle scandal with more monetary policy and, arguably, much higher stakes. In today's ...

I tell this story in my book “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate.” To Nixon and Kissinger, however, he was the man who knew too much.

The Watergate tapes later revealed an entirely cynical Nixon campaign team and a hard-nosed White House cadre led by H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman — plus a host of lesser toadies ...

This is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, and it lays the foundation for later inflation.

The batch of subpoenaed tapes included the “smoking gun tape,” proving that Nixon himself had been a chief architect of the ...

In today's episode, we listen back through the Nixon White House tapes to search for evidence of an alarming chapter in American economic history: When the President of the United States seemingly ...

I tell this story in my book “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate.” The man who knew too much Morton Halperin committed no crime. To Nixon and ...