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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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“The week that changed the world.” Was it a chance encounter at the World Tennis Championship in 1971, “Panda diplomacy” between the U.S. and Communist China, or a break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters by a team of 5 burglars, that drastically altered the trajectory of world history? It was around this time that the Women’s Equity Action League also filed one of the farthest reaching Class Action lawsuits, leading to President Nixon signing the Education Act into law. Join us as we talk about the origins of the Watergate scandal, the landslide victory that kept Nixon in office, and the establishment of Title IX.
Writer, Host, and Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon
Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder
Writers and Researchers: Amy Watkin, Mandy Reid, and Kari Anton
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| 1:07.0 | Hello friends and welcome back to our docuiseries about the 1970s. |
| 1:18.0 | If you've been listening to our previous episodes, you know we've already been on a wild ride through government deceit, an |
| 1:26.3 | unbelievable party in Iran, student protests, and travels through space. Well buckle up because there is so much more to come. Today |
| 1:36.7 | we're going to talk about 1972 when President Nixon visited Communist China, |
| 1:42.3 | Title IX was established, |
| 1:45.0 | Nixon was re-elected, |
| 1:47.0 | and an eagle-lined security guard |
| 1:50.0 | spotted a little piece of masking tape in a building you may have heard of called |
| 1:57.6 | Watergate. I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting. |
| 2:07.4 | According to Eugenio Martinez, one of the Watergate burglars, |
| 2:11.1 | the mission felt doomed from the beginning. |
| 2:14.3 | Martinez had signed divorce paperwork that same day going directly from the |
| 2:18.4 | courthouse to the airport to get to Washington, D.C. |
| 2:23.0 | Not only that, but the car that picked up the five-man team heading to the Watergate |
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