Exploding the Watergate Myth
FrontPage Magazine,
by
Bruce Bawer
Original Article
Posted By: Kate318,
7/20/2022 10:42:04 AM
I was a child of the Watergate generation. Vacationing at a lake house the summer I was 17, I spent weeks glued to the committee hearings on TV. Back in school that fall, I wrote a paper arguing that Nixon should resist pressure to resign. Headed south the next August, I watched Nixon’s resignation speech at a motor lodge on I-95 and the next day, on the highway, listened on the car radio as Gerald R. Ford declared “our long national nightmare” over.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 7/20/2022 11:08:53 AM (No. 1222489)
What did Nixon do wrong?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
volksford 7/20/2022 11:11:26 AM (No. 1222493)
As an aside , I never could put John Dean and that hot wife of his as a couple.
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jinx 7/20/2022 11:14:00 AM (No. 1222496)
This does not surprise me at all. The CIA and FBI are full of crooks.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/20/2022 11:21:29 AM (No. 1222507)
Demolish the left-wing media, save the country. The media is a stage-four cancer afflicting us all.
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john56 7/20/2022 11:29:51 AM (No. 1222516)
Whatever happened in Watergate (especially the "cover-up") is child's play compared to the actions of the Democrat party, deep state, and media today.
Case in point, the J6 witch trial (where the witches are doing the trial).
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slsusnr 7/20/2022 11:34:26 AM (No. 1222527)
""Will," by G. Gordon Liddy, is close to the top of books on any list of must-reads I'd offer. I read it as a library book years ago and then promptly bought the book.
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EJKrausJr 7/20/2022 12:11:05 PM (No. 1222560)
Read G.Gordon Lilly's account of the Watergate incident. It was all about John Dean.
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Chiritwo 7/20/2022 1:32:40 PM (No. 1222639)
All I can say is "wow". I never believed it and John Dean to me was a snake. We, as Americans, have to wake up to how the press is manipulating us. No more.
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bigfatslob 7/20/2022 2:11:44 PM (No. 1222678)
John Dean wanted immunity to testify but was refused so he had to marry the prostitute so 'his wife' couldn't testify against him. It was all about John Dean along with the third-rate burglary to find the black book with democrats carrying on with hookers. All Gordan Liddy, the mastermind, ended up with was a dentist and hair appointment book he was quiet the braggart who thought he was James Bond. A crappy ending with a bunch of made-up Woodward and Berstein lies from a person call Deep Throat which I never believed. Watergate was the democrat's shining moment which they love to relive it continues to this very day. FJB
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MDConservative 7/20/2022 3:32:50 PM (No. 1222731)
FTA: "It was remarkably easy, back then, to hide facts - even facts that had gone public. "
The pre-WW2 media (newspapers and radio) did not have a sterling reputation for the truth. They were political shills and/or sensationalists selling newspapers. Their patriotic (therefore truthful) coverage of the war changed that. Stars emerged, with Edward R. Murrow the superstar of media, along with many from the CBS radio news bureau. Journalism became a "profession". Television sealed the deal.
WW2 put journalism in bed with the military and spies. Our soldiers, sailors and airmen were on a determined march to victory. Stories were spiked with no complaint. Stories were told with a purpose.
1972 is not long (27 years) after WW2. It is still the Cold War. Vietnam was dragging on. American military leaders looked incompetent, soldiers addled and confused. Demonstrations and bombings were frequent stories. And Nixon was President about to negotiate an end to this war.
Today "journalists" have gone full circle. They are all shills for one side or the other. We report, you decide is equally meaning you get one side and must seek out the other. Newspapers are on their way out, thinner than Twiggy on a diet. Politicians are celebrities on entertainment shows, not "Meet the Press". It's all become a UNIPARTY tragi-comedy, featuring key issues for woofing to rile the faithful...and maybe the public.
History is bunk. Written by winners, revised when it's convenient by all sides. Who shot JFK? There are about 50 "proven" gunmen at Dealy Plaza, representing anyone you care to name, from Cubans (pro- and anti-Caastro) to the Mafia, the CIA, even a Secret Service guy in the trailing car and a sniper in the sewer. Take your pick, or add your own to the cast. The next compelling bombshell book will be published in 3...2...1...
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stablemoney 7/20/2022 3:34:01 PM (No. 1222732)
The Democrats got rid of Nixon, after one term, with a Watergate investigation scam. They tried to get rid of Reagan with the Irangate scam, but it failed. They got rid of HW Bush, after one term, by running Ross Perot as a shill conservative to split the conservative vote. The tried to get rid of GW Bush with the Florida hanging chad vote recounts. They stole the second term of Trump, by stuffing unmonitored drop boxes, after failing with 2 impeachments, and a sham Mueller investigation. The next Republican President can count on being impeached, indicted, their family investigated, any businesses investigated, all by federal and state agencies. Attorney client or double jeopardy shields will not work. Federal government employees are all Democrats that cannot be fired for any reason, and will undermine every act of a Republican President. And if none of that works, the Democrats will get a Rino nominated or elected. Further, the Democrats will make their discontent known, and the mob will take care of their problem, as they always have done, elections or otherwise, in return for total protection from any prosecution for any of their crimes.
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Proud Texan 7/20/2022 5:59:44 PM (No. 1222837)
I remember Watergate taking over the news when I was in junior high/ high school. My dad and I talked about what was happening while getting tractors and equipment ready to go to the field every morning. He would even be surprised how correct he was as to what was really happening. Every time I time I read articles like this I gain more and more respect with wonder and awe at how well he figured these things out.
It was also in one of these discussions that he told me that one day Russia will be democratic and the U.S. will be communist. I wish he would have been wrong more often.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 7/20/2022 8:54:04 PM (No. 1222968)
This should be a MUST READ… but, sadly, it will not make it to the top. There’s too many facts and doesn’t fit the narrative.
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