Geoff Shepard

Geoffrey Carroll Shepard (born November 7, 1944) is an American lawyer, author, and lecturer.

Early life Geoff Shepard was born in Santa Barbara, California and grew up in Southern California. His graduating class from the Irvine Elementary School in 1958 consisted of only thirty-two students. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach in 1962. He went on to Whittier College and was a member of the debate team, student body president and recipient of the Richard Nixon scholarship – which was awarded by Nixon himself at a luncheon in 1965 and had been partially funded by Nixon.

Shepard received his JD from Harvard Law School, with honors, in 1969, where he was ranked in the top fifth of his class.

Nixon administration Upon graduation, Shepard was selected as a 1969–1970 White House Fellow, one of fifteen young Americans chosen to spend that year serving in the Executive Branch. He worked at the Treasury Department, as Special Assistant to the Secretary.

In September 1970, Shepard was hired by John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, onto his Domestic Council staff. That staff, the counterpart to the National Security Council staff under Henry Kissinger, worked with the President on domestic issues of national importance. Shepard's immediate superior was Egil Krogh, later to become notorious as the head of the White House Plumbers. Shepard succeeded Krogh as Associate Director for General Government in 1972 and was re-appointed to that position by President Gerald R. Ford in 1974. He left the White House staff in 1975, having authored hundreds of policy memoranda for presidents Nixon and Ford and their senior staff.

During the unfolding of the Watergate scandal, Shepard also functioned as principal deputy to J. Fred Buzhardt, President Nixon's Watergate defense counsel. Many also have been broadcast on C-SPAN's American History Channel. Links to almost three dozen of the forums on which Shepard has worked can be found on his website.

In August 2015, Shepard's second book The Real Watergate Scandal was published by Regnery Publishing.

He taught a course at Temple University in Philadelphia in 2019, "Watergate Revisited, An Insider’s View." He did nine hours of Watergate interviews with Hugh Hewitt in 2020, "Watergate, Knowns and Unknowns." In October 2021, Shepard's third book, The Nixon Conspiracy, Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President, was published by Bombardier Books.

Geoff and his wife, Saundra, live in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. They have two adult sons.

In August 2024, Shepard sat down for an interview for over 2 hours with Tucker Carlson. He discussed the Watergate scandal in great detail. His documentary is "Watergate Secrets."