Yes, a filing cabinet brought down Richard Nixon, you read that correctly. The filing cabinet in question belonged to Dr. Lewis Fielding, the therapist of Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, and connected to Nixon by way of his Plumbers Unit breaking in to get dirt on Ellsberg from his file in the cabinet. This Unit would also later be responsible for the most prolific scandal in American history, the Watergate Scandal, and would spell the end of Nixon's presidency by 1974. Without Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, the Fielding Breakin wouldn't have happened, and by breaking into his filing cabinet, they committed themselves to continuing to do such acts, which would ultimately topple Nixon's government.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Daniel Ellsberg
01:41 "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force"
02:40 An Atomic Awakening
04:02 Leaks in the Pentagon
04:55 "Pentagon Papers"
05:41 A Series of Unfortunate Events
06:23 "We’ve gotta get this son of a b***h"
08:12 The Fielding Breakin
09:41 The Plot Thickens
10:03 The White House Plumbers
10:45 Watergate
11:15 The Breakins
12:02 The Arrests
12:42 The Coverup
13:34 The Cracks Begin to Form
14:40 The Collapse
16:48 The Filing Cabinet That Ended Nixon's Presidency
18:55 Outro

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