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Geoff Shepard came to Washington, DC in 1969 as a White House Fellow, after graduating from Whittier College and Harvard Law School.  He then served for five years on the Domestic Council staff at the Nixon White House, becoming associate director in 1972.  He also was deputy counsel on President Nixon’s Watergate defense team, where he helped transcribe the White House tapes, ran the Document Room holding seized files of H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Dean, and staffed the President’s counselors on Watergate issues.  He transcribed and named the infamous “smoking gun” tape recording whose public release triggered Nixon’s resignation. He was subpoenaed to testify at both Watergate trials and is the only senior member of Nixon’s White House staff to obtain a “clearance letter,” confirming that he was never the subject of an investigation by the special prosecutors.   

He has spent much of his adult life researching Watergate files, particularly the internal files of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, where he has uncovered documentation of a series of secret meetings between prosecutors and judges, secret agreements to select favorable trial judges, suppression of evidence helpful to Watergate defendants, and secret meetings between prosecutors and congressional staff in support of Nixon’s impeachment. Today, Geoff is the foremost authority on behind-the-scenes developments in the unfolding of the Watergate scandal.  He has written several books, given dozens of lectures, and authored dozens of essays on different aspects of the Watergate scandal.  In 2019, he taught a semester’s adult education course, “Watergate Revisited, an Insider’s View,” at Temple University.

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey.  He sat on the bench from 1987 to 1995, when he presided over more than 150 jury trials and thousands of motions, sentencings, and hearings.  Judge Napolitano taught constitutional law and jurisprudence at Delaware Law School for two years and at Seton Hall Law School for 11 years. He was often chosen by the students as their most outstanding professor. He returned to private practice in 1995 and began television work in the same year. As Fox News’ Senior Judicial Analyst since 1998, Judge Napolitano broadcasts nationwide on the Fox News Channel throughout the day, Monday through Friday. He is nationally known for watching and reporting on the government as it takes liberty and property. Judge Napolitano lectures nationally on the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties in wartime, and human freedom. He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. His weekly newspaper column is seen by millions every week. The Judge is the author of seven books on the U.S. Constitution, two of which have been New York Times bestsellers. His most recent book is Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom.