The Ripple Effect Podcast #172 (Geoff Shepard | The Real Watergate Scandal)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2018
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Geoff holds degrees from Whittier College and Harvard Law School. He was selected a White House Fellow in 1969 and assigned to the Treasury Department, where he worked under Paul Volcker, then undersecretary for monetary affairs.
Following his fellowship year, Geoff joined John Ehrlichman’s Domestic Council staff at the Nixon White House, where he served for five years, first as a staff assistant and ultimately as associate director.
Geoff also worked on President Nixon’s Watergate defense team, where he was principal deputy to the President’s lead lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt. In that capacity, he helped transcribe the White House tapes, ran the document rooms holding the seized files of H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Dean, and staffed White House counselors Bryce Harlow and Dean Birch.
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple effect. |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact. I'm I'm I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm |
| 0:39.3 | I'm |
| 0:40.3 | I'm your host, Ricky Vranis. |
| 1:15.6 | And today we have a great episode for you. We have somebody who was directly involved with the Watergate scandal. He was on Nixon's defense team. He is an author, lecturer, attorney. |
| 1:23.6 | Jeff Shepard is on today. And we go deep into the Watergate scandal. It's one of those things, historical events that everybody kind of knows the name, |
| 1:31.5 | but I think a lot of people my age and younger, they don't really know the details. |
| 1:36.0 | So we really go deep into it today. |
| 1:38.0 | There's a lot of similarities with the JFK assassination in regards to there's so many rabbit |
| 1:42.5 | holes can go down, then some even even some of |
| 1:45.6 | the same names like frank sturges and e howard hunt you're going to hear those names pop up and uh which |
| 1:50.8 | really makes those guys even more fascinating if you've heard uh recently my j f k assassination specials i did |
| 1:57.5 | a couple episodes ago part one and part. You're going to hear some of the |
| 2:01.8 | same names. You're going to hear us talk about Operation 40, Bay of Pigs. And it's amazing some of the |
| 2:07.5 | similarities and some of the links to the two events. If you guys are doing your own research, |
| 2:13.0 | look into these guys. It's so interesting when you really look into E. Howard Hunt and Frank |
| 2:16.7 | Sturges and Operation 40, Bay of Pigs. It's so interesting when you really look into E. Howard Hahn and Frank Sturges and Operation |
| 2:17.8 | Forty and Bay of Pigs. It's really fascinating. And also the similarities to Russia Gate. If you guys |
| 2:25.8 | didn't know, the reason why every political scandal after Watergate ends with a gate is because |
| 2:32.6 | of Watergate. The reason why it's called Russia |
| 2:34.6 | Gate is because of Watergate. So it's that important of a political scandal, but yet many |
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