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Silent Coup

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SILENT COUP is the excavation of some vital of some vital hidden history, of a national scandal within a scandal, and of a literary-journalistic atrocity of revealing while concealing.

There are several virtues that make this book quite remarkable among political writing of our era. What follows is a finely styled, fast-paced narrative, gripping as it is disturbing. Distinguished from so much written about Watergate and Richard Nixon, it also happens to be true.

You are about to read the story of a coup d’état, of all political events the most dramatic, suspenseful, sinister. To make the subject even more ominous, this is an American coup, albeit carried out (for a change) in the United States itself.

- Roger Morris, former National Security Council Staff Member under Henry Kissinger

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Shepard is arguably the most knowledgeable expert on the Watergate affair extant. He was an eyewitness and deeply engaged participant. For example, he transcribed personally the "smoking gun" tape. His conclusion is that Watergate was a bloodless coup accomplished by Democrat partisans from D.C. and Massachusetts, the two electoral entities that voted for McGovern in an otherwise landslide Nixon re-election victory in 1972. Anti-Nixon D.C. bureaucrats, lawyers, judges, and politicians put together the coup to reverse an election — sound a little too familiar in 2021? Another elemental parallel in the scenarios of 1972 and today is Republican Party establishment pooh-bahs who didn't raise a finger for Nixon — again a warning of what happened recently to Trump.

Bears repeating. Watergate is where the Mediacracy really made their bones and found they were the greatest political power in the nation, able to unseat a president and decide who was acceptable to hold office.