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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, you know, it is the anniversary of Nixon's resignation. When would that have been? |
0:09.4 | 73? No, 74. Oh, so 74. It's not the 50-year anniversary. No, that's the 49. Why are we celebrating 49? But it was on this day that Richard Nixon resigned. The Watergate situation, |
0:26.4 | think about this. Some guys that were working for Nixon decided they would break in to the office of Larry O'Brien. He was the head of the Democratic National Committee, the DNC. |
0:40.3 | They broke into his office trying to tap his phone. |
0:43.3 | And it was in the Watergate, which was a hotel and an office building. |
0:48.3 | And they broke in there. |
0:49.3 | Remember those guys, G. Gordon Liddy, these burglars, they broke in to tap the phone. |
0:53.3 | They made a huge mistake. |
0:57.8 | And I remember interviewing Gordon Liddy a million times, and whenever I'd ask him about this, he looked like he was going to choke me to do this. |
1:04.8 | He didn't want to admit to this. |
1:06.7 | What they had to do was take masking tape and put it around the door so it wouldn't lock when they closed it. |
1:14.8 | Now, a picture of the door closed, you put the masking tape up and down vertically so that when the door is closed, you don't see it. |
1:21.7 | They had put it horizontally around the door. |
1:25.1 | So when the door was closed, you could see masking tape on it. |
1:28.7 | So there was a security guard. |
1:29.4 | What was his name? |
1:32.7 | George Willis, I think that was his name. |
1:34.3 | He's walking down the hall. |
1:37.5 | He sees masking tape around the door there by the lock. |
1:42.4 | So he opens, he catches the guys, and they get caught, and all hell breaks loose. |
1:42.8 | Why? |
1:44.4 | Because it's a Republican. |
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