How Scandal Brought Down A President
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Fifty Years ago Richard Nixon became the first, and so far only, sitting US President to resign. Ed looks back at how Watergate caused his demise, and asks whether a scandal could ever bring down another President.
Plus: Columnists James Marriott and Laura Freeman discuss why it pays to be hated, why Bansky artwork is often stolen and what makes swearing in English so popular
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| 0:52.0 | from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:55.9 | 2023 VP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to the Politics Without the Boring Bits |
| 1:09.5 | podcast with me Ed Vasey. |
| 1:11.6 | 50 years ago Richard Nixon resigned as the US President. |
| 1:15.0 | He became the first and only sitting President to resign. |
| 1:18.7 | We'll speak to Fred Emory, the Times reporter who covered the Watergate scandal at the time for the paper and asked |
| 1:25.0 | could a scandal bring down a US president ever again. |
| 1:28.6 | First though it's time for this. The Columnists. |
| 1:39.0 | So I'm joined now by the columnist James Marriott. |
| 1:42.0 | Welcome to the show. Good morning. So I'm joined now by the columnist James Marriott. |
| 1:42.8 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:43.8 | Can I stop you there? |
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