Watergate: Nixon, Vietnam & The Pentagon Papers PART ONE

Welcome back to Big Talk! It’s the political scandal so infamous that, 50 years later, we’re still adding “gate” to the end of every controversy.

But Watergate didn’t begin with a break-in.

In Part One, we’re going back to Richard Nixon’s rise to power, the lies America was told about the Vietnam War, the explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, and the increasingly secretive White House determined to stop its secrets getting out.

This is how we got to Watergate.

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