Today is the 40th anniversary of Watergate

[malaise]

John Dean is on GEM$NBComcast discussing it.

Nixon should have been sent to prison.

[coalition_unwilling]

1. Obstruction of Justice is so 20th Century. Can't believe this

thread is dropping like a stone into oblivion, especially when there are threads like this one current today:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002816880

Here's a K&R!

[Solly Mack]

2. Yes, he should have been.

[malthaussen]

3. Anything that happened before you were born is history.

And history is irrelevant.

Lotta people believe that on a fundamental level.

Pour moi, the current decade is looking more like the 70s all the time -- except this one has taken out all the fun bits.

-- Mal

[spanone]

4. k&r...

[Archae]

5. I got really mad at Nixon, back then.

Because all those Watergate hearings and stuff cut into my favorite TV shows!

(Hey, I was only 12 back in 1972.)

[malthaussen]

6. Dude, that's as valid an objection as any...

I have a friend who was 5 in 1941. Biggest thing she remembers about WWII is that bubble gum went up a penny.

-- Mal

[Cooley Hurd]

9. Heehee!! I was 7 and I LOVED the hearings!!

Mom raised me as a dutiful little Dem and I was LOVING ol' Sam Irvin!!!

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

[eShirl]

12. EXACTLY.

I can remember a teacher attempting to broach the subject with us 3rd graders.
"So, have you all been hearing on the news about Watergate?"

collective 3rd grade reaction: "Ugh! Watergate!!" :rolleyes:

[malaise]

14. The hearings were my favorite TV show

I couldn't get enough of them

[Cooley Hurd]

7. This broke in the midst of the 1972 election...

...yet, Nixon still won over a war hero. WITH a press that was far more fair than now.

Conundrum!

[Archae]

8. Nixon won because of his political stunts.

Winding down Vietnam.

Going to Russia and China.

And so on...

[hrmjustin]

19. don't they all win because of there political stunts.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. damn..I feel old.

[frogmarch]

11. wow, really? I remember it

clearly. I thought for sure Nixon would serve prison time for it. He should have!

[malaise]

15. Yep none of ths shit going on today would be possible

if Nixon was sent to prison

[libinnyandia]

13. If the Democrats had done it the GOP would have used it in every election: What party had both

a President and Vice President resign because of crimes?

[malaise]

16. ReTHUGs are scumbags

THey make up lies for every election.

[pinboy3niner]

17. I could swear it's ony been 18 1/2 minutes

[malaise]

18. Bwaaaaah hahahaha

DUzy

[pinboy3niner]

25. Well, YOU probably even believed there was a cancer growing on the presidency!1!!

[frogmarch]

21. Good one!

[coalition_unwilling]

22. Bravo! - n/t

[EFerrari]

23. I got myself kicked out of my college library for laughing out loud

reading that first, heavily redacted, expletive deleted transcript.

[pinboy3niner]

24. "Expletive deleted"

That term does have a special meaning--not quite a je ne sais quoi--for our generation, doesn't it?

Shortly after returning from volunteering for Kerry in Ohio in '04, I saw John Dean (with Michael Moore) at an event in L.A. Dean signed a book for me, and suddenly became voluble when he learned I'd been out in Ohio on the campaign. If it weren't for my tendency to run away from celebrities, i might have had more of a story to tell here.

[gopiscrap]

20. The real tragedy about this is that in todays climate

our corporate whore media would sweep all this under the rug!