Uncovering the Nixon Tapes: Memoir of a North Carolina Attorney and Watergate Assistant Chief Counsel

Inauspiciously born in Depression-era rural North Carolina, Gene Boyce rose to become one of the state's premier trial lawyers. A law graduate of Wake Forest University, his journey in legal practice led him to Washington, DC, on several occasions, most notably in 1973, when he served as an assistant chief counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee under the chairmanship of Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

In this absorbing memoir, Boyce chronicles in detail his tenure on that prominent Senate Select Committee. Told for the first time is the story of the committee's use of the Library of Congress computer to store and analyze its testimonies and documentary evidence, a first such application in a congressional investigation and one in which Boyce played an integral role. Boyce also participated in the committee's investigation of Special Counsel to the President Charles Colson. Capping this memoir is Boyce's singular account of the monumental class-action lawsuits brought against the State of North Carolina for unlawful taxation. As lead counsel for these suits, Boyce provides a fascinating look at what it took to win these protracted litigations, the largest class-action suits in the state's history. Written in a style both amusing and rigorous, this historically accurate memoir provides a deep and first-hand insight into some of the Watergate scandal's most essential evidence, as well as the life of one indomitable North Carolina attorney.