Are there many/any in here who even know what Watergate was about?

[Imagevision]

Plumbers-burglars-a break-in but paid for and sponsored by whom? and why? who was to gain from this break-in burglary -- what was it Nixon needed so badly to know about McGovern and the Democratic party.

Does anybody know? I do, "Watergate? Deepthroat" and even a movie.

[expatriot]

1. This would be better posted in GD:Politics, my friend nt

[Atman]

2. This is LBN?

I was set to answer, but I honestly don't even know what this sentence says...

"Does anybody know? I do, "Watergate? Deepthroat" and even a movie."

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Absolute power

That's what it was all about, and that's why it's scary to watch what's going on again.

Nixon and his thugs didn't just want to win re-election - they wanted to destroy the "other side," and, because he and his cohorts were angry, paranoid, evil men, then they wanted to destroy everyone on the "other side."

It was about rage, power, and paranoia.

I really do urge you to read Woodward and Bernstein's "All The President's Men." It's still the definitive study - I think - of what happened. (You'll need to make a chart to follow the characters.)

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. But for all that, there were something like twice as many

convictions from the Reagan administration as from Nixon's.

And with luck, we'll see Chimpy leaving them both in the dust.

[candy]

7. They were quite the times.weren't they?

Remember "The Saturday Night Massacre"?

[recovering democrat]

11. You've got it right!

What is both good and bad about "Watergate" is that what they were trying to do was stopped right then by the "spotlight" of the impeachment activity and ultimate Nixon resignation. The reason I say it is also bad is that the people of this country never had the opportunity to fully understand just how dangerous that corruption was going to be. The present administration is so scary because it is just hard for people in this country to believe the level of evil involved then, and now.

[notadmblnd]

4. Mr. Pretzeldent... is that you?

I heard that you was interested in learning more about Watergate, but I really didn't think you'd come he to edumacate yourself.

[whatgives]

6. CREEP

The breakins were commited by members of the Committe to reelect the President. When Nixon found out about the Watergate breakins, he tried to cover it up. Hence jail time for the perps and a Pres. resigning.

[evlbstrd]

12. I always loved CREEP as a deliciously ironic acronym.

At least they said what they were.
* shrouds all of his crimes in freedom and doublespeak.

[whatgives]

13. appropriate name n/t

[LeighAnn]

8. It was about getting your cartoons pre-empted every afternoon

for, like, two years during the hearings and what-not.

I learned a lot about Watergate from watching the movie "Dick"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000021Y7E/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Nixon was deeply paranoid. He had an "enemies list"

and went to extreme lengths to be sure his "enemies" couldn't get the better of him. That's really what Watergate was about. Oliver Stone's movie, "Nixon," shows that aspect of his personality quite well. And in a lot of ways it's now deja vu all over again, except that Nixon was actually a smart, articulate evil guy instead of a dumb, incoherent evil guy. Watergate was scary and fascinating, and I couldn't tear myself away from the televised hearings. Amazing stuff. I wonder if we will ever get to see any such hearings on the manifold sins and wickednesses of this regime?

[roguevalley]

10. He was a paranoid asshat surrounded by pseudo-military asshats

who wanted a one party country from now until the end of the fourth reich. Does that sound familiar? Nixon sort of got it going. The pugs now finished it.

[KT2000]

14. Clumsy KKKarl Roves

is what Watergate was about. Their objectives were the same as Rove's. The break-in also involved planting stuff like prostitutes' phone numbers so people would think the Democrats were immoral.

Interestingly, many of those who actually served jail time for their CRIMES are currently involved with the repug party. Cool people, huh?

Rove continues the tradition and just covers his tracks better.

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