The Watergate Story
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
For those who were too young to follow this or weren’t paying attention back then, the Washington Post gives you The Watergate Story.
Complete with Key Players, Timeline, Herblock Cartoons, Resources, Multimedia, and Post Coverage.
And, for those who prefer movies: All the President’s Men.
This is an important piece of US history and given our current mess of a government it’s useful to take another look at this.
The types of things the Nixon white house did were terrible: disrupting the political campaigns of their opponents, bugging the national Democratic party headquarters and more.
The things that George W. Bush and his administration have done make Watergate seem like nothing in retrospect. Lying to start a war, torturing people, electronic eavesdropping on all Americans, and running up bills for all of this that stagger the imagination.
Where are Woodward and Bernstein now? Why haven’t a new “Woodward and Bernstein” come forward to shed more light on these things? The Washington Post took a huge risk with the Watergate story and they were right and they changed history. Why isn’t anyone willing to take a risk and change history anymore? Apathy? Corporate controlled media? The country devolving into decadence?
The Watergate story is uplifting. Our current mess is depressing. The media and all of us focus on who is and isn’t wearing a flag lapel pin and not the fact that our government is violating international law, lying, and torturing people.
Shame on us.
I wonder what goes on in Hillary Clinton’s campaign “war room”?
Richard, thanks for posting, very interesting and something I know only a small amount about.
I could not agree more about Bush - someone needs to step up, find their you-know-whats and blow the whistle.
As to your media, they are often the butt of jokes here, but to be honest, ours are not much better, or in fact, worse on occasion.
Jon, the whistle has been blown but few are listening. Either it’s not loud enough or we’re all deaf. Blair should be on trial too, along with Bush and Co.