On this episode of The Stone Zone, host Roger Stone is joined by author Nick Bryant to discuss Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, Watergate, and Watergate's impact on American politics and the country's perception of the presidency. The episode also features a new book written by Nick Bryant, The Truth About Watergate, which details the events leading up to Watergate and the Watergate scandal itself, and the impact it had on the way the country viewed the presidency of Richard Nixon and the events that led up to it. This episode is brought to you by Slingshot News and Stonezone. Roger Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents. He is a New York Times bestselling author, and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump. As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society, and is a regular guest on radio and television talk shows. Roger Stone and Troy Smith are the co-hosts of the popular podcast, The Stonezone, hosted by Roger Stone, and are the founders and co-founders of the conservative website, Slangshot News, where they discuss all things political and culture related to politics, pop culture, and pop culture. They discuss the political and cultural events happening around the world. and discuss the current political landscape, including Watergate, Watergate and Watergate. The truth about Watergate, the scandal, and Nixon s relationship with the media, and its impact on politics, and how it affected the presidency, and what it meant for American politics in the mid-twenties and late 20thirty, post-20th century America. This is a must-listen to this week's most influential podcast. episode, you won't want to miss! Join the Stone Zone! Subscribe to The StoneZ Zone on Apple Podcast, wherever you get your news and let us know what you're listening to! and why you should be listening to it! The podcast! or on social media! Subscribe to our new podcast, wherever else you re listening to this podcast is listening to the . Subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform? Learn more about politics, business, social media and social media, what s going on in the , and much more! Enjoyed it? Subscribe for more like it s going to be more like that?
00:05:00.500Indeed, the media destroyed him because, well, I'm sure Nick Bryant will get into this.
00:05:07.100They ran with a narrative about Watergate that was created by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post that is entirely untrue.
00:05:19.900But Nixon had gotten the enmity of the national media as early as 1947 and 48 when, as a member of the U.S. House, he exposed Alger Hiss.
00:05:34.840Alger Hiss was a high-level diplomat in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations who Nixon learned was an active agent of the Russian communist state.
00:05:46.840The media denied this, the media denied this, but ultimately, Hiss would be convicted of perjury for lying before Congress.
00:05:57.760Years later, when the Soviet Union fell and KGB records became available to us, we learned that Alger Hiss was indeed a Russian spy.
00:06:10.280Here's Richard Nixon in a short video regarding his view of the media.
00:06:17.280Well, they have much more power than most people would like to think.
00:06:21.140When we think of the media in this country, the problem is that they have a sense of self-righteousness, a double standard on issue after issue after issue.
00:06:31.700They can find everything wrong with somebody else, but they will not look inside and ever admit that they could be wronged themselves.
00:06:40.040And what was involved here in the Watergate thing was the unfairness of it.
00:06:44.380Oh, there was a legitimate thing to investigate, but they refused to balance it.
00:06:48.100They allowed their advocacy to get ahead of their reporting, which is their job to do.
00:06:56.960You know, President Eisenhower, in his farewell address, wrote about and warned against the power of the military-industrial complex.
00:07:06.300I didn't get a chance to make a farewell address, but when I get old enough and decide to retire, and I'm not planning it at the moment,
00:07:15.340but when I get that old, if I make a farewell address, I think I would warn against the media elitist complex.
00:07:24.420You know, the media is always talking about the imperial presidency, the power of the imperial presidency.
00:07:29.940I think we ought to hear a little bit of discussion of the imperial media and its power.
00:07:37.700You see, presidential power is limited, limited by the courts, limited by the Congress.