The PBS American Experience installment on Nixon that aired in late 1990 had a fair amount of contemporary Watergate footage, iirc.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 16 June 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
I watched that BBC one the summer it came out, it's great.
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Saturday, 17 June 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
I recently (ahem) rescreened All The Presidents Men for the first time since I saw it as a teen who then knew nothing about Watergate. The movie was baffling to me the first time round, and this time round, I a) appreciated it as one of the all-time great detective stories and b) admired how unforgiving it is re: expecting the audience to know what Watergate was, what Nixon did, etc. That final scene before the credits roll - the meaning and irony of it were completely lost on me the first time I saw it.
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Saturday, 17 June 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
well, remember, it was released less than4 years after the break-in.
“That axiomatic Hollywood principle, action is character, takes a strange turn in [Alan J. Pakula’s] All the President’s Men [1976],” writes Mark Feeney in an excerpt from Nixon at the Movies: A Book About Belief now up at Slate. “The Woodward and Bernstein we get to see—so dutiful, so serious—are Butch and Sundance gelded. It wasn’t as if Woodward and Bernstein and the Post were out to get the president and his men (the party line of Nixon apologists). They don’t bring down the government out of any animus. They don’t even do it because it’s fun. (The only person in All the President’s Men who ever seems to be enjoying himself is Jason Robards’s Ben Bradlee.) They bring down the government because it’s a great story, and getting great stories is their job. . . . What’s so charismatic about journalism here isn’t its practitioners (Bradlee once again excepted); it’s the idea of journalism.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/conspiracy_thrillers/2017/06/all_the_president_s_men_made_woodward_and_bernstein_the_stuff_of_journalistic.html
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 June 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
That Feeney boom is terrific, by the way
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 June 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
Book
Jaworski report released
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-archivists-release-watergate-report-that-could-be-possible-road-map-for-mueller/2018/10/31/841cc938-dbb5-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 November 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
RIP Ruck
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-27/william-ruckelshaus-nixon-nemesis-who-headed-epa-dies-at-87
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
egil 'bud' krogh dead
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Egil-Krogh-Seattle-lawyer-leader-of-Nixon-14990183.php
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
nobody left but liddy and dean
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
does Diane Sawyer count?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
it was a guess really but it had a certain poetry so i went with it
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
alive!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Segretti
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/roger-stone-richard-nixon-tattoo.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
Magruder testifies that money was given to Liddy in good faith to use as security at campaign rallies for Nixon surrogates and the RNC convention.— Watergate Day Of - 1973 (@WatergateDayOf) January 23, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
embedded tweets are good again
(ps they were always good)
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
The crazy rat bastard finally popped his clogs
G. Gordon Liddy has died at 90. His bungling of Watergate break-in triggered a crisis that led to President Nixon's resignation. https://t.co/UM81k5hv5v— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 30, 2021
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
Somewhat fatalistically, I'm starting in on the Graff book.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:44 (two years ago) link
HBO ‘Plumbers’ tv show; five episodes, starts March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXTmH6C4LHY
― piscesx, Friday, 9 December 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link