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Limited Hangout

Podcast von Devin Vaughn

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Geschichte & Religion

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A podcast about the other side of Watergate. Listen along as we explore the lingering, unresolved mysteries of the most infamous burglary in American history. Episodes released periodically. Original music by Austin Miller.

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Episode E06: Gemstone, Part II –– A Disorganized Effort and a Disputed Approval Cover

E06: Gemstone, Part II –– A Disorganized Effort and a Disputed Approval

After John Mitchell turned down G Gordon Liddy's bonkers Gemstone proposal on January 27, 1972, John Dean passed the burden of getting the campaign intelligence program approved to Jeb Magruder. A second, more conservative proposal was then presented to Mitchell on February 4 but was once more deferred. Following these back-to-back failures to get Gemstone approved, Magruder found himself under intense pressure from both Liddy and multiple figures in the White House to get a decision on Gemstone. This of course proved increasingly difficult, as Mitchell found himself consumed by the emerging ITT scandal and showed almost no interest in campaign matters. This confusion, disorganization, and pressure for results set the stage of the third and final Gemstone proposal on March 30, which resulted in the plan's disputed approval that ultimately set the dominoes in motion that would lead to the infamous Watergate burglary.

30. Dez. 2025 - 50 min
Episode E05: Gemstone, Part I –– Bugging, Mugging, and Prostitutes Cover

E05: Gemstone, Part I –– Bugging, Mugging, and Prostitutes

The Committee to Re-elect the President got off to a disorganized start as Attorney General John Mitchell dragged his feet on his slow march over from the Justice Department to once more manage Nixon's presidential campaign. Running the committee in his boss's absence, deputy director Jeb Magruder quickly found himself overwhelmed by his newfound role atop the CRP as he faced unrelenting pressure from the White House to get the ambivalent Mitchell's approval for a campaign intelligence program called Gemstone that had been initiated by White House counsel John Dean and masterminded by an eccentric former FBI agent named G Gordon Liddy. This pressure resulted in a memorable presentation in Mitchell's office that included descriptions of high-tech spy planes, kidnappings, and a houseboat full of hookers.

18. Dez. 2025 - 52 min
Episode E04: "We're up against an enemy, a conspiracy!" –– Nixon Goes on Offense Cover

E04: "We're up against an enemy, a conspiracy!" –– Nixon Goes on Offense

Nixon really flipped his lid in the summer of 1971. In response to the leak of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, the increasingly paranoid president ranted about conspiracies and pushed for the development of an internal White House intelligence capability to deal with the leak problem. The first apparent development to result from this escalation was the proposed firebombing and burglary of the Brookings Institution by special counsel Chuck Colson that was called off once word of it reached the president’s inner circle. The second was the creation of the anti-leak Plumbers unit that would quickly be dissolved by the inner circle after the sloppy burglary of the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist –– by former intelligence agents G Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt ––  that exceeded their project’s authorization. And third was the assigned task of the president’s counsel, John Dean, to develop a first-rate intelligence program for the upcoming 1972 campaign –– one that resulted in the transfer of Liddy and Hunt over to the newly formed Committee to Re-elect the President.

1. Apr. 2025 - 1 h 16 min
Episode E02: Leaks and Limitations –– Nixon's Early Frustrations Cover

E02: Leaks and Limitations –– Nixon's Early Frustrations

In response to foreign policy leaks and other concerns early in his presidency, Nixon pushed his intelligence agencies, much like his predecessor once did, to produce intel through warrantless surveillance. This episode, we meet the president's inner circle –– Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell, Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman –– and we examine how then recent scandals involving the FBI and CIA had given rise to new laws on domestic surveillance that caused both agencies to impose limitations on how far they were willing to go in order to accommodate demands made by the Nixon team as they tried to grapple, first, with leaks and, then, with the growing number of bombings carried out by antiwar radical groups.

19. Aug. 2024 - 56 min
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