I'm not sure why, but I'm still on my Watergate kick. The cliché about Watergate is that "it's not the crime, it's the coverup." But you know, the crime was pretty bad. Or rather the crimes were. There were years of dirty tricks, and I wonder if even now it's all out there.
This classic by the reporters who broke the story was endlessly fascinating to me. The only problem was that for the life of me I couldn't keep track of who everyone was. There's Haldeman and Ehrlichman, John Dean and John Mitchell, Colson and Clawson, Liddy (wait I know him! He's the one with the mustache), Macgruder, McGregor, McCord, Nixon (name rings a bell, but I can't quite place him), and so many others.
I almost feel as if I need to read the original Washington Post articles in order to figure it all out, but that probably wouldn't work either. The amazing thing about the Nixon Administration is that Vice President Spiro Agnew had to resign for crimes that had nothing to do with Watergate. In any other administration, Agnew would be all that we remembered, and here he's barely mentioned.
