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Series two of the Ministry of History podcast is all about historical scandal, and we're starting off with a big one. In 1971, President Richard Nixon commissioned a shady group of 'fixers' to work on his behalf, and in 1972 they broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at Washington's Watergate hotel. The crime, and the cover-up, led to one of the biggest scandals in American history, and the only resignation of a President.
Much has been written and said about Watergate, but in this podcast Tom aims to analyse Nixon as a person - his childhood, his background, his character traits - and assess how this both enabled him to rise to the very top but also ensured that he would suffer a humiliating fall from grace.
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