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Editor Ben Bradlee didn't want it fast. He wanted it right. That pressure runs through every page of this book.
#books #bookreview #Watergate #journalism
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Editor Ben Bradlee didn't want it fast. He wanted it right. That pressure runs through every page of this book.
#books #bookreview #Watergate #journalism
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July 12, 1974 - John Ehrlichman, former top aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate a citizen’s civil rights. Ehrlichman had approved a recommendation for a covert investigation of Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 by writing on a memo: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable." Looking for information to discredit Ellsberg, agents of President Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the office of his psychiatrist.
Ellsberg, a former Defense Deptartment analyst, had been responsible for public release of The Pentagon Papers, a collection of documents outlining the U.S. history and strategy in Vietnam, that had been classified as secret to avoid public scrutiny.
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July 12, 1974 - John Ehrlichman, former top aide to President Richard Nixon, and three others were convicted of conspiring to violate a citizen’s civil rights. Ehrlichman had approved a recommendation for a covert investigation of Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 by writing on a memo: "If done under your assurance that it is not traceable." Looking for information to discredit Ellsberg, agents of President Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the office of his psychiatrist.
Ellsberg, a former Defense Deptartment analyst, had been responsible for public release of The Pentagon Papers, a collection of documents outlining the U.S. history and strategy in Vietnam, that had been classified as secret to avoid public scrutiny.
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Secret cash. Political sabotage. A cover-up from the Oval Office. Woodward and Bernstein found all of it.
#books #bookreview #Watergate #AmericanHistory
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Secret cash. Political sabotage. A cover-up from the Oval Office. Woodward and Bernstein found all of it.
#books #bookreview #Watergate #AmericanHistory
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#Watergate #MarthaMichell #history
"'I believe Mr Nixon knew all along': The tragic story of Martha Mitchell - the Watergate whistleblower who was ridiculed
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Years after her death, Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher used her name to describe a psychological phenomenon: the Martha Mitchell effect, wherein a patient's outlandish but real experiences are misdiagnosed as delusions. But it wasn't until recently that the significance of her Watergate interventions, erratic and self-interested though they sometimes were, started to be properly acknowledged.
She became known as the most outspoken and indiscreet of the Nixon cabinet wives, telling a TV reporter in November 1969 that anti-Vietnam war protests reminded her husband of the Russian Revolution
In 1977, Richard Nixon had told David Frost that 'if it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate'. He meant that her unpredictable behaviour had caused his close ally John Mitchell to take his eye off the ball. In reality, she came close to exposing the entire criminal enterprise before a cover up could even begin."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260522-the-tragic-story-of-martha-mitchell
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#Watergate #MarthaMichell #history
"'I believe Mr Nixon knew all along': The tragic story of Martha Mitchell - the Watergate whistleblower who was ridiculed
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Years after her death, Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher used her name to describe a psychological phenomenon: the Martha Mitchell effect, wherein a patient's outlandish but real experiences are misdiagnosed as delusions. But it wasn't until recently that the significance of her Watergate interventions, erratic and self-interested though they sometimes were, started to be properly acknowledged.
She became known as the most outspoken and indiscreet of the Nixon cabinet wives, telling a TV reporter in November 1969 that anti-Vietnam war protests reminded her husband of the Russian Revolution
In 1977, Richard Nixon had told David Frost that 'if it hadn't been for Martha Mitchell, there'd have been no Watergate'. He meant that her unpredictable behaviour had caused his close ally John Mitchell to take his eye off the ball. In reality, she came close to exposing the entire criminal enterprise before a cover up could even begin."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260522-the-tragic-story-of-martha-mitchell
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I could not agree more!
I found more photos from that event: https://historycollection.com/26-photographs-americas-1976-bicentennial-celebration/
It was good to scroll thru them.
I was about five years older than the kid at the top of this photo. You can tell that they were glad to be part of a whole. And it was a hopeful time... we were getting our act together. We were righting wrongs. For context, these are the things that were on my mind at that time...
The first #Oil #Crisis 🛢️
#Watergate 🕵️
#Racism and the #CivilRights Movement ✊🏾
The #VietnamWar (I was subject to the draft.) 🪖
The #ColdWar with its attendant #Nuclear Dread 🤯My friends and I were particularly concerned about protecting the #Environment 🌲 , tried to avoid cars, and rode our #bicycles everywhere. 🚴
So what about the #Semiquincentennial? Let's say it's a celebration deferred. We need to get our act together, we need to right some wrongs, we need to start feeling AND acting like a whole again.
We've made a start, we can do it, and when we're on the right track again I'll be there with you all to celebrate! 💕 🇺🇸
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I could not agree more!
I found more photos from that event: https://historycollection.com/26-photographs-americas-1976-bicentennial-celebration/
It was good to scroll thru them.
I was about five years older than the kid at the top of this photo. You can tell that they were glad to be part of a whole. And it was a hopeful time... we were getting our act together. We were righting wrongs. For context, these are the things that were on my mind at that time...
The first #Oil #Crisis 🛢️
#Watergate 🕵️
#Racism and the #CivilRights Movement ✊🏾
The #VietnamWar (I was subject to the draft.) 🪖
The #ColdWar with its attendant #Nuclear Dread 🤯My friends and I were particularly concerned about protecting the #Environment 🌲 , tried to avoid cars, and rode our #bicycles everywhere. 🚴
So what about the #Semiquincentennial? Let's say it's a celebration deferred. We need to get our act together, we need to right some wrongs, we need to start feeling AND acting like a whole again.
We've made a start, we can do it, and when we're on the right track again I'll be there with you all to celebrate! 💕 🇺🇸
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The US celebrated the end of a ‘long national nightmare’ as it turned 200. What about now? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/us-independence-day-holidays-past #DonaldTrump #RichardNixon #CivilRightsMovement #VietnamWar #Watergate #UsPolitics #UsNews
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The US celebrated the end of a ‘long national nightmare’ as it turned 200. What about now? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/us-independence-day-holidays-past #DonaldTrump #RichardNixon #CivilRightsMovement #VietnamWar #Watergate #UsPolitics #UsNews
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I think America needed the Bicentennial for a lot of reasons -- #Watergate, the failure of the Vietnam War, the lingering economic effects of the Oil Embargo. But the manic drive to celebrate had at least something to do with a hoped-for end to social unrest.
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I think America needed the Bicentennial for a lot of reasons -- #Watergate, the failure of the Vietnam War, the lingering economic effects of the Oil Embargo. But the manic drive to celebrate had at least something to do with a hoped-for end to social unrest.
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The #DeepState didn’t take down #Nixon.
So why did #JDVance say it did?
Nixon’s #Crimes, the #Courts, #Congress & the #FreePress drove #Watergate.
Such a scandal of #crime & #corruption could easily happen again — [especially in a nation where #Trump controls the #press, the rule of #law only applies to his enemies & the courts have been subjugated by a #corrupt #SCOTUS].#Trumpaganda #propaganda #Republicans #RevisionistHistory #UShistory #law #criminal
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The #DeepState didn’t take down #Nixon.
So why did #JDVance say it did?
Nixon’s #Crimes, the #Courts, #Congress & the #FreePress drove #Watergate.
Such a scandal of #crime & #corruption could easily happen again — [especially in a nation where #Trump controls the #press, the rule of #law only applies to his enemies & the courts have been subjugated by a #corrupt #SCOTUS].#Trumpaganda #propaganda #Republicans #RevisionistHistory #UShistory #law #criminal
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J. D. Vance contends that the scandal would be “a 12-hour news story” today. He’s probably correct, but the lesson isn’t what he claims. #mix #politics #watergate
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I WISH i HAD CAUGHT THIS SOONER...
We all heard #JV try to downplay the seriousness of #Watergate last week, but Jen made the case Friday that Vance "inadvertently" pointed out that #Felon47 commits Impeachment-level crimes that make Watergate look like "a 12-hour news story" on a regular basis.
(BTW: #CouchFker has no clue what he's talking about and I doubt even knows what Watergate was all about.)
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/vance-accidentally-admits-that-trump-is-way-worse-than-nixon-2504938563822 -
I WISH i HAD CAUGHT THIS SOONER...
We all heard #JV try to downplay the seriousness of #Watergate last week, but Jen made the case Friday that Vance "inadvertently" pointed out that #Felon47 commits Impeachment-level crimes that make Watergate look like "a 12-hour news story" on a regular basis.
(BTW: #CouchFker has no clue what he's talking about and I doubt even knows what Watergate was all about.)
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/vance-accidentally-admits-that-trump-is-way-worse-than-nixon-2504938563822 -
EA on LBC: #JDVance — Corruption and Crime in US Presidency is No Big Deal (Scott Lucas with Matthew Wright)
https://eaworldview.com/2026/06/j-d-vance-corruption-and-crime-in-us-presidency-is-no-big-deal/
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EA on LBC: #JDVance — Corruption and Crime in US Presidency is No Big Deal (Scott Lucas with Matthew Wright)
https://eaworldview.com/2026/06/j-d-vance-corruption-and-crime-in-us-presidency-is-no-big-deal/
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Ronald Reagan to JD Vance: minimizing Watergate is a Republican tradition | Rick Perlstein https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/28/reagan-jd-vance-nixon-watergate-republicans #Republicans #JdVance #Watergate #UsPolitics #TrumpAdministration #RonaldReagan #RichardNixon #UsCrime #UsNews #WorldNews
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Ronald Reagan to JD Vance: minimizing Watergate is a Republican tradition | Rick Perlstein https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/28/reagan-jd-vance-nixon-watergate-republicans #Republicans #JdVance #Watergate #UsPolitics #TrumpAdministration #RonaldReagan #RichardNixon #UsCrime #UsNews #WorldNews
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116826467836543098
Taking apart #JDVance motives, trying to bury attention to current issues of corruption and criminal activity, in dismissal of #Watergate
“Hey, corruption, hey, abuse of power and the Constitution, so what about it? Because in 12 hours, we’ll be talking about something else"
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116826467836543098
Taking apart #JDVance motives, trying to bury attention to current issues of corruption and criminal activity, in dismissal of #Watergate
“Hey, corruption, hey, abuse of power and the Constitution, so what about it? Because in 12 hours, we’ll be talking about something else"
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EA on LBC: #JDVance — Corruption and Crime in US Presidency is No Big Deal (Scott Lucas with Matthew Wright)
https://eaworldview.com/2026/06/j-d-vance-corruption-and-crime-in-us-presidency-is-no-big-deal/
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EA on LBC: #JDVance — Corruption and Crime in US Presidency is No Big Deal (Scott Lucas with Matthew Wright)
https://eaworldview.com/2026/06/j-d-vance-corruption-and-crime-in-us-presidency-is-no-big-deal/
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June 27, 1973 - President Nixon's former White House counsel, John W. Dean, III, told the Senate Watergate Committee about Nixon's “enemies list.” He released a 1971 memo, written by presidential advisor (now Rev.) Charles Colson, proposing the use of "available federal machinery to screw our political enemies."
Twenty persons were to be subjected to IRS audits, litigation, prosecution, or denial of federal grants, and an additional list contained 200 names of other individuals and organizations considered enemies of the administration.
The president's misuse of government agencies and powers, in pursuing those he saw as his political enemies, was the basis for one of the articles of impeachment that forced Nixon from office.
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June 27, 1973 - President Nixon's former White House counsel, John W. Dean, III, told the Senate Watergate Committee about Nixon's “enemies list.” He released a 1971 memo, written by presidential advisor (now Rev.) Charles Colson, proposing the use of "available federal machinery to screw our political enemies."
Twenty persons were to be subjected to IRS audits, litigation, prosecution, or denial of federal grants, and an additional list contained 200 names of other individuals and organizations considered enemies of the administration.
The president's misuse of government agencies and powers, in pursuing those he saw as his political enemies, was the basis for one of the articles of impeachment that forced Nixon from office.
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Oh good lord. #JDVance on #Nixon and #Watergate: “If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions, tried to do to Donald Trump in the first administration." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon
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Oh good lord. #JDVance on #Nixon and #Watergate: “If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions, tried to do to Donald Trump in the first administration." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon
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“As I joked with Robert backstage, if #Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. Like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.”
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“As I joked with Robert backstage, if #Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. Like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon. So, the #Watergate break-in, & Nixon's prior knowledge & approval of it, wouldn't have led to his #downfall, according to #JDVance, if he were not also opposed by "Deep State" forces, just as Donald #Trump is. It's rather odd, then, that these alleged "Deep State" forces (a) allow Trump to get away with so much, & (b) allow him to stay in power in the first place!
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon. So, the #Watergate break-in, & Nixon's prior knowledge & approval of it, wouldn't have led to his #downfall, according to #JDVance, if he were not also opposed by "Deep State" forces, just as Donald #Trump is. It's rather odd, then, that these alleged "Deep State" forces (a) allow Trump to get away with so much, & (b) allow him to stay in power in the first place!
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JD #Vance : Vizepräsident relativiert #Watergate und warnt vor »Deep State«
spiegel.de/politik/jd-vance-vi…
Der US-Vize zieht einen Vergleich zwischen Ex-Präsident Nixon und seinem Chef, der für Aufsehen sorgt: Den einen habe der »Deep State« zu Fall gebracht, bei dem anderen sei es versucht worden.
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JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon #JdVance #UsPolitics #Republicans #RichardNixon #UsNews #WorldNews #DonaldTrump #Watergate
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JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon #JdVance #UsPolitics #Republicans #RichardNixon #UsNews #WorldNews #DonaldTrump #Watergate
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A break-in that looked routine. Two reporters who wouldn't drop it. A president who had to resign. This is that story.
#books #bookreview #Watergate #history
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A break-in that looked routine. Two reporters who wouldn't drop it. A president who had to resign. This is that story.
#books #bookreview #Watergate #history
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CW: us political history
It was on this day in 1972 that Richard #Nixon sat in the Oval Office with H.R. #Haldeman, his Chief of Staff, and discussed something. What it was, we don't know, but we can guess that it was something rather explosive as it was erased from a tape made of the event, creating the now-infamous 18 1/2 minute gap.
I was reading an article from the Museum of Portable Sound which gave a history of that event, partly from a sound engineer's point of view, and thus was pleasantly surprised to find it making a political point which I had already mused upon, as #Watergate was, first of all, something that happened at the beginning of my awareness of what politics was, in a location that was basically local to me, and second, an event which contributed to subsequent and current #corruption at the highest levels of government. That point was hidden in a caption of a picture of the Nixon Library at the very end of the article, and it kind of says it all:
"The idyllic and glamorous Richard Nixon Presidential Library, dedicated to a man who, by accepting President Gerald Ford’s pardon, admitted to criminal wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal, thereby setting the precedent for US presidents to engage in criminal activity unpunished. Nixon’s pardon can be seen as directly responsible for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s lack of consequences for establishing the still-operational illegal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and launching their criminally unjust invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003, which led to countless US war crimes including the torture of prisoners as well as the maiming and killing of Iraqi civilians. Nixon’s pardon can also be viewed as having paved the way for the war crimes of Barack Obama [ https://harvardpolitics.com/obama-war-criminal/ ], the innumerable illegal activities of Donald Trump during his presidency (including fomenting a treasonous coup attempt, the criminality of which is still being debated), and Joe Biden’s flagrant flouting of international law in his 'ironclad' enabling of (and cooperation with) Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians."
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CW: us political history
It was on this day in 1972 that Richard #Nixon sat in the Oval Office with H.R. #Haldeman, his Chief of Staff, and discussed something. What it was, we don't know, but we can guess that it was something rather explosive as it was erased from a tape made of the event, creating the now-infamous 18 1/2 minute gap.
I was reading an article from the Museum of Portable Sound which gave a history of that event, partly from a sound engineer's point of view, and thus was pleasantly surprised to find it making a political point which I had already mused upon, as #Watergate was, first of all, something that happened at the beginning of my awareness of what politics was, in a location that was basically local to me, and second, an event which contributed to subsequent and current #corruption at the highest levels of government. That point was hidden in a caption of a picture of the Nixon Library at the very end of the article, and it kind of says it all:
"The idyllic and glamorous Richard Nixon Presidential Library, dedicated to a man who, by accepting President Gerald Ford’s pardon, admitted to criminal wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal, thereby setting the precedent for US presidents to engage in criminal activity unpunished. Nixon’s pardon can be seen as directly responsible for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s lack of consequences for establishing the still-operational illegal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and launching their criminally unjust invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003, which led to countless US war crimes including the torture of prisoners as well as the maiming and killing of Iraqi civilians. Nixon’s pardon can also be viewed as having paved the way for the war crimes of Barack Obama [ https://harvardpolitics.com/obama-war-criminal/ ], the innumerable illegal activities of Donald Trump during his presidency (including fomenting a treasonous coup attempt, the criminality of which is still being debated), and Joe Biden’s flagrant flouting of international law in his 'ironclad' enabling of (and cooperation with) Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians."
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June 17, 1972 - In the early morning five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. They had been hired by President Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) to install bugging devices and copy documents.
The abuse of power and obstruction of justice involved in the cover-up of this crime eventually led to the resignation of the President, at the time on the verge of impeachment by the House or Representatives.
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June 17, 1972 - In the early morning five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. They had been hired by President Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) to install bugging devices and copy documents.
The abuse of power and obstruction of justice involved in the cover-up of this crime eventually led to the resignation of the President, at the time on the verge of impeachment by the House or Representatives.
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Heute vor 54 Jahren, am 17. Juni 1972, führte ein Stück Klebeband zur Festnahme von 5 Männern, die ins Hauptquartier der Demokratischen Partei im #Watergate-Gebäude eingebrochen waren.
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Heute vor 54 Jahren, am 17. Juni 1972, führte ein Stück Klebeband zur Festnahme von 5 Männern, die ins Hauptquartier der Demokratischen Partei im #Watergate-Gebäude eingebrochen waren.
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