Ousting J. Edgar Hoover + Nixon's Secrets: Ep. 3 of Harry Shearer's 'Nixon's The One'

"Secrets," the third episode of Harry Shearer's new miniseries 'Nixon's The One,' premieres on YouTube this morning. Time recently raved, "Not only is the performance excellent --Shearer finds both menace and oddball humanity in the President -- but the staging is genius, with the camera placed awkwardly in corners, as if the video itself were surreptitious." Watch and embed the link here: http://youtu.be/Dj6Gb3UriJg

As a result of the White House tapes, Nixon's thoughts and actions were, as David Frost explains in his introduction to the episode, "the most unsecret of those of any world leader, ever." In "Secrets," Nixon schemes with his staff for strategies to oust J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the FBI and discusses Lyndon B. Johnson's bugging of Nixon during the 1968 Election.

Listen to Shearer talk about 'Nixon's The One' on The Takeaway: http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/harry-shearer-tackles-president-nixon-nixons-one/

For 'Nixon's The One,' Shearer, alongside Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, combed through thousands of hours of Nixon's secret White House tapes. These re-enactments are pulled verbatim from the tapes, giving untold insight into the awkwardly intimate machinations of the Nixon Administration. "It's like you're in the Oval Office with him," says Shearer, "And you can't get out."

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