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WATCH: Woodward Explains Why January 6 Records 'Worse Than Nixon Tapes'

WATCH: Woodward Explains Why January 6 Records 'Worse Than Nixon Tapes'

Appearing on Wednesday's edition of CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, legendary reporter and author Bob Woodward broke down all the insidious texts exchanged between Fox News Trumplicans and GOP allies in Congress and then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

Bob Woodward is the king of finding White House chicanery

"Let's talk about what is going on right now," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "We are already learning a lot from the select committee investigating the insurrection, but based on your own experience, going back to the '70s, when you and Carl Bernstein were breaking stories on Watergate, do you think will we ever really know what happened?"

Referring to Haldeman's diaries ,Woodward would go on to say how it's the media's job to dive deeper into the Meadows texts. H.R. Haldeman was Nixon's White House Chief of Staff. Upon his death, he left behind a chronicle of the four years he was Chief of Staff for President Nixon.

"Well, let's hope so," said Woodward. "I think the burden is on the media. I brought up Haldeman's diaries, he was Nixon's chief of staff. Now, the diaries were secret for 20 years. They are a remarkable document, equivalent to the Nixon tapes, and it didn't come out in after he had served jail time, after he died, and so I'm not suggesting that Mark Meadows wrote 700-page diary, but maybe somebody did."

Watch the entire interview below:

Endorse This: Nixon’s Invitation Got Lost In The Mail

Endorse This: Nixon’s Invitation Got Lost In The Mail

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Losing to John F. Kennedy in 1960 wasn’t the only grudge that Richard M. Nixon held against the late Democratic president. For years after JFK’s assassination, Nixon was still looking for answers to one troubling question: Why was he never invited to the White House!? He laments and ruminates hilariously as a sycophantic Henry Kissinger nods…

Actor Harry Shearer takes the lead role in his forthcoming new series “Nixon’s The One” based on tape recordings from the Nixon White House. Click above to watch a clip — then share this video!

Video via Wall Street Journal Speakeasy Blog

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Before Twitter There Were The Nixon Tapes

Before Twitter There Were The Nixon Tapes

Our fascination with President Richard Nixon long survives the man. Less than 5% of Nixon’s taped conversations have been transcribed and published, but now a new book, the Nixon Tapes 1971-72 takes us into two years of the late President’s conversations and rants. According to GoodreadsThe Nixon Tapes, with annotations and commentary by Luke Nichter and Professor Douglas Brinkley, offers a selection of fascinating scenes from the year Nixon opened relations with China, negotiated the SALT I arms agreement with the Soviet Union, and won a landslide reelection victory. All the while, the growing shadow of Watergate and Nixon’s political downfall crept ever closer. The Nixon Tapes provides a unique glimpse into a flawed president’s hubris, paranoia, and political genius.”