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The break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as Ken Hughes reveals in his powerful new book, in all the thousands of hours of declassified White House tapes, the president orders a single break-in--and it is not at the Watergate complex. Hughess examination of this earlier break-in, plans for which the White House ultimately scrapped, provides a shocking new perspective on a long history of illegal activity that prolonged the Vietnam War and was only partly exposed by the Watergate scandal.As a key player in the University of Virginias Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses.
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Ken Hughes has written about the secret White House tapes of Richard M. Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy in the pages of the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe Magazine, Salon.com and more. As a researcher with the University of Virginia's Miller Center since 2000, Hughes has been interviewed on the tapes and the Vietnam War by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, 60 Minutes, Politico, CNN and news organizations around the world. Hughes was senior consultant on Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words, a documentary by Kunhardt McGee Productions for HBO and is currently serving as a consultant on the forthcoming Ken Burns documentary on Vietnam.
