http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/watergate.html
Slow Burn is a podcast by Slate about Watergate that goes through the events that brought down Nixon step by step as people perceived them at the time.
Every other day, I see a new thread on the front page asking about what Trump supporters will or will not do, what Mueller will or will not do, what Trump himself could do. A lot of people in these threads would ask deeper questions if they had a bit of context about what happened with Nixon because of the parallels that story has with the current scandal.
Did you realise, for instance, that even after Nixon left office in disgrace, he still had a hard core of supporters so that his approval rating never dipped below 22%? These were people who would by and large have benefited from Democratic policies but who saw Nixon as their man, the guy to stop all the madness of a world rapidly changing world around them, who would stand up to the hippies, the feminists and the uppity minorities and restore Law and Order. Years after he was gone, their minds hadn't changed.
There are names in this podcast you'll recognise, but others you won't. Martha Mitchell, for instance, was the wife of a Nixon aide who was essentially kidnaped and sedated so that she wouldn't keep blabbing to the press. Her story is harrowing and fascinating, but she gets lost in the collective memory because of what happened after.
The host goes through this journey with the listener, uncovering the scandal bit by bit as it happened in the press of the day. Sometimes, the similarities to today are uncanny.
If you're at all interested in digging into Watergate and don't have the time or energy to read a history book, you owe it to yourself to listen to this podcast.
Slow Burn is a podcast by Slate about Watergate that goes through the events that brought down Nixon step by step as people perceived them at the time.
Every other day, I see a new thread on the front page asking about what Trump supporters will or will not do, what Mueller will or will not do, what Trump himself could do. A lot of people in these threads would ask deeper questions if they had a bit of context about what happened with Nixon because of the parallels that story has with the current scandal.
Did you realise, for instance, that even after Nixon left office in disgrace, he still had a hard core of supporters so that his approval rating never dipped below 22%? These were people who would by and large have benefited from Democratic policies but who saw Nixon as their man, the guy to stop all the madness of a world rapidly changing world around them, who would stand up to the hippies, the feminists and the uppity minorities and restore Law and Order. Years after he was gone, their minds hadn't changed.
There are names in this podcast you'll recognise, but others you won't. Martha Mitchell, for instance, was the wife of a Nixon aide who was essentially kidnaped and sedated so that she wouldn't keep blabbing to the press. Her story is harrowing and fascinating, but she gets lost in the collective memory because of what happened after.
The host goes through this journey with the listener, uncovering the scandal bit by bit as it happened in the press of the day. Sometimes, the similarities to today are uncanny.
If you're at all interested in digging into Watergate and don't have the time or energy to read a history book, you owe it to yourself to listen to this podcast.
