White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story

by Phil Stanford

Ex-stripper Heidi Rikan was working for the mob in Washington, DC. White House Call Girl tells how a call girl operation she was running at the time led to the Watergate break-in, which brought down Tricky Dick Nixon himself. Needless to say, this is not part of the usual Watergate story that has come down to us over the decades. It is also only fair to point out that this version of the story might be dismissed out of hand as being dangerous "revisionist" history. If you're not careful, you might end up being called a conspiracy theorist. You can also be called crazy—which is what happened to a young lawyer named Phillip Bailley, one of the principal witnesses to this ignored bit of American history. When he was foolish enough to blow the whistle on Rikan and her call girl ring, he was locked up at St. Elizabeth's, the District of Columbia's mental hospital, in the ward for the criminally insane. For forty years we've only heard the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein perspective on Watergate. Now we've got the photographs for the revisionist model. What's more, we've got Heidi's little black book. White House Call Girl was published last season in an eBook edition only. The paperback edition includes new information on the murder of call girl—and playmate of Vice President Spiro Agnew—Pat Adams. With the help of newly-released FBI documents, we fill in more of the blanks in this long-suppressed story.

Genres: Nonfiction

180 pages, Paperback

First published September 2, 2013

Reviews

[Bill reilly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was drawn to this gossip filled book by the salacious cover photo of Heidi Rikan, a call girl who was a best friend of a woman named Maureen Kane. Ms. Kane later married John Dean, and the rest is history.
All the President's Men bored me to tears and this one is not much better. As a Green Bay Packer fan, the highlight for me was a few names in Heidi's little black book. Paul Hornung, Donny Anderson and Max McGee are there amongst several other famous men.
D. C. Has always been a cesspool of corruption and repulsive behavior and the cast of truly horrible people only reenforces this fact. White House Call Girl is not a good read.

[Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite the somewhat quirky writing style, White House Call Girl delivers the goods. Phil Stanford had followed the story of the Columbia Plaza call girl ring for four decades, and his diligence yielded the address books kept by Heidi Rikan, the ring’s madam. Inside those address books was a Who’s Who of Washington political and sports figures. They included White House John Dean, Nixon campaign official Jeb Magruder and two influential members of the Senate Watergate Committee — Sen. Lowell Weicker and majority counsel Sam Dash.

[Deborah Castellanos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative. I have heard the comments about the Infamous Watergate TAPES for years on end never really knew what was on them. Now I know. No wonder they all were trying hard to cut ties with each other. Unfortunately it probably still goes on they have just become a little better at covering it up. Thank goodness for private investigators and journalists at least it will keep them looking over their shoulders.

[Larry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Need to reread, and get some historical context to decide on this. Overall, it's kind of seemy and exploitative, but who knows, maybe more truth then fiction.

[Steven Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the book quite a lot, albeit the story flowed disjointed at times. All the dots were connected including NFL players, the mob, double crosses, call girls and all were colorful in their own right. Aliases abound, books written by most of the players. Gotta couple in my queue now. The author did well going through decades of info and just recently released records that had been sealed for 40 years. Should you have any interest in Heidi, this would definitely be the one for you. Scattered tho it was, everything got buttoned up. Deep Throat, Dean, Woodward, no one is innocent. "Because we've got the photos. What's more, we've got Heidi's little black book".

[Bryan Hovey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having grown up with Watergate and seeing the hearings and news reports on TV when I was a kid, this is an interesting look at what was possibly withheld from the public. I'm not calling the author's integrity into question but just because you read it, does not make it true. That said, I've always felt that there was way more to the Nixon scandal than what we've been lead to believe. The claims laid out in this book seem very plausible.

[Daniel Silliman · Rating 2 out of 5]

One star because writing any book is hard. One star for some creative craziness.

[Edna Wilkerson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Other players

Interesting information about the call girl network and the support
Characters from the White House, DC police and CIA
It seems to me almost an afterthought. It does show the perpetrators profiting.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed the book

Good read..qell referenced, different take on the Watergate fiasco. Recommend reading Silent Coup as referenced in this book. Basic takeaway is Nixon got betrayed by his trust in his subordinates, who were screwed by John Dean...

[Della Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Gaynelle Gilbride · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many people involved at all levels. From video tapes to a little black address book. This book was well written.