RICHARD NIXON Watergate 1974 (Part 8) The Players, who are these people and how did they get there ? ( Part C )

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In our third episode in our look at the various people whose oral histories we will be focusing on during our next two seasons of shows we leave behind the events of October 1973 and look back on who these people are and how they got to be players in the Watergate Scandal. This episode will concentrate on five people, Henry Ruth, Jill Wine Banks, Richard Ben Venisti , Alexander Haig and Ray Price.
Three of them are Special Prosecutors and two worked for President Nixon. One other person who worked for President Nixon, Geoff Shepard , we have devoted an earlier entire show into profiling. This show will allow you to listen in on their earlier careers and how they came to have the positions they held. It is a fascinating look at how people build their careers and what influences their decision making during a historic moment in our nation's history.
You will also very subtly learn tidbits of information that will come to be very important later. The most important is the long standing relationship between Henry Ruth , the second in command at the Special Prosecutor's office, and John Doar, the lead lawyer and staffer for the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives for the inquiry into the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.
It is a relationship that will grow to be of monumental importance, and may be the key to how secret Grand Jury evidence, normally sealed, gathered without defense attorneys' being present, in which only the Prosecutors control access to the Grand Jury members, could be moved to the committee inquiring as to whether there would be grounds to impeach a duly elected President of the United States. All of which was done without the benefit of a Defense Attorney having so much as the ability to raise an objection or ask a question.
This is the first layer of a foundation of alleged misconduct that will stagger you, subtly hidden in this oral history of Henry Ruth.