Episode ?: Nixon on the Rocks

The Watergate Hotel

The scene of the crime that led to Richard Nixon losing his second term of presidency from the 1970's.

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Gordon Liddy

He organized the first and second robbery and illegal bugging of the DNC office under the direction of Nixon's staff.

FBI Searching the robbers hotel room.

Tools used to break into the DNC Office

Bugging devices collected from the DNC

The Watergate Event

Richard Nixon

37th and 38th President of the United States

The only US President to Resign as of 2025

Patrick Gray

Director of the FBI at the start of the Watergate investigation

Mark Felt

Deputy Direct of the FBI and Deep Throat