Reprinted from “Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate” by Ken Hughes by permission of the University of Virginia Press.... Since 2000 I have studied the White House tapes as part of the Presidential Recordings Program founded by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. These years of research have convinced me that the origins of Watergate extend deeper than we previous knew to encompass a crime committed to elect Nixon president in the first place. Chasing Shadows tells the story of that crime and its role in the unmaking of ...