The recent ballyhoo over Watergate and Mark Felt has been superficially
reported in the media.
References to a "break-in" are left at that ... without context. Nothing
about the dirty tricks campaigns that flourished in the paranoid Nixon White
House.
For example:
A think-tank official (Daniel Ellsberg) writes a scathing report on
Vietnam -- Nixon has somebody break into his psychiatrist's office to dig up
dirt on the guy..
Sen. Edmund Muskie emerges as a credible Democratic candidate in the run-up
to the '72 election. They engineer his defeat in the Democratic primaries
by forging a letter critical of northerneastern Americans of Canadian
descent, and attributing it to Muskie.
Anti-war activists were also subject to intimidating IRS audits.
There was more ... But to listen to Wolf Blitzer, et al,. on the weekend, it
all stemmed from a single break-in at a hotel one day in June of 1972.
I suggest people born since, say, 1960, would have had a problem
understanding what the hell the pundits were even talking about.
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