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It Didn't Start with Watergate
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New reprint of book by best selling author of JFK: The Man and the Myth. This carefully documented book highlights the hypocracy that has gripped both the beltway and the entire nation. Details political corruption beyond lies and fund raising scams. A well-written expose of dirty tricks, corrupt political battles, illegal wire-tapping and coverups by the press. Describes
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Paperback, 478 pages
Published
January 1st 1980
by Dell Publishing Company
(first published January 1st 1977)
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Watergate is kind of a hobby of mine. I don't know why exactly. Maybe it started with that high school desire to become a journalist and uproot corruption. Then as I became a journalist I realized, as did Dave Barry, that there may indeed be corruption out there, but I had no idea how to find it. So now I'm a tech writer who reads a lot about Watergate.
Most of the literature out there is highly negative, but mostly for the right reasons. This book, by conservative columnist Victor Lasky, takes a ...more
Most of the literature out there is highly negative, but mostly for the right reasons. This book, by conservative columnist Victor Lasky, takes a ...more
So what? It didn't end there either. And in the decades since Watergate, Republicans have done far worse. Bill Clinton lied about sex. Republicans made trump President.
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Read it based on recommendation from MM
Very dense, packed with citations and research, all about how Nixon's quagmire at Watergate was not an unusual or outrageous abuse of presidential powers, but rather something that all other presidents before him had done—if anything, their violations had been far worse, and they had all been massive bastards, assholes, villains. However, what they had that Nixon didn't was a friendly mainstream press, which hounded Nixon (this matches with Nixon's/GOP's po ...more
Very dense, packed with citations and research, all about how Nixon's quagmire at Watergate was not an unusual or outrageous abuse of presidential powers, but rather something that all other presidents before him had done—if anything, their violations had been far worse, and they had all been massive bastards, assholes, villains. However, what they had that Nixon didn't was a friendly mainstream press, which hounded Nixon (this matches with Nixon's/GOP's po ...more
Really fascinating stuff on JFK and RFK wiretapping, but lessens a bit once it gets into the Watergate apologia. Sill worth a read.
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