Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 4

Deep Throat, Operation Gemstone, two valiant reporters, and a secret 30 years in the making. Watergate was not a single scandal, but rather an avalanche of events and co-conspirators, all engaged in corruption to keep President Nixon in office. The stakes were so high that Nixon’s Special Security Advisor, G. Gordon Liddy, lived under fear of being assassinated, and the wife of Nixon’s Campaign Director & Attorney General was drugged and held captive in a hotel room to keep her silent. What was the “smoking gun” that led to the toppling of this enterprise? Was it the tapes Nixon secretly recorded, and the 18-minute gap, that ultimately pushed Nixon to be the first and only President to resign? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 4 is an episode from Sharon Says So by Sharon McMahon.

This episode is 37:20 long.

This episode was published on Apr 27, 2026.

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