It's like they found the missing 18 minutes

[edhopper]

and they still won't admit he's a criminal.

Watergsate reference to you younger DUers.

[dem4decades]

1. Well in all honesty, it's like Nixon said he did it and Halderman said they did it all the time.

[LastDemocratInSC]

2. And that we should all just "get over it". I remember hearing that in 1974.

[dawg day]

3. "Third-rate burglary"

My favorite Watergatism was "Let's leave him twisting slowly, slowly in the wind."

(Haldeman, i think, said that about the hapless L. Patrick Gray, who was the FBI director specially chosen to cover up Nixon's crimes... and was inadequate though willing at that job.)

And then there was the always useful "modified limited hangout."

(That is, admit to a tiny bit so that you seem honest and frank, but withhold every important fact.)

[empedocles]

4. Haldeman had a safe with bribe money in his office. The key phrase, when dollars

were 'needed', according to John Dean, was, 'I need another bite of the apple'.

[lunatica]

5. This party just got started

The 18 minutes were way, way into the latter part of the impeachment hearings.

[edhopper]

6. but we are starting with that

the 18 minutes and smoking gun are already out. Who knows what else we will see.