Woodward and Bernstein Didn’t Act Alone on Nixon, Watergate

[rcjordan]

^{A good read.  Debbie says it is a Call To Action.}

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/woodward-and-bernstein-didnt-act-alone-on-nixon-watergate.html

[ergophobe]

Good read.

My grandmother, the only Democrat in the family, made me sit down in front of the TV on her living room floor to watch Dean testify: "Your president is a crook and you should know what he's done." Of course, she had believed he was a crook ever since (possibly before) the Checkers Speech, so for her Watergate was just the confirmation of something she considered established fact. I don't remember anything Dean said, but for many years we were bound together by a passionate (her) or mild (me) interest in Watergate trivia.

During the Iran-Contra scandal, she would watch people like Ollie North testify and say, "It really has none of the drama of Watergate."

>>call to action

How so? What are you thinking there?  A call to more hard investigative journalism, or specifically investigations of certain presidents?

[rcjordan]

>Checkers

Heh! We were 'business class' republicans and we thought he was a crook from the beginning of his first term.

> specifically investigations of certain presidents?

Jan 6 panel and the Orange One.

[ergophobe]

It didn't happen. Please read my quotes in the Bradbury thread.