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Nixon's Slow Burn

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg chats with Slate's Leon Neyfakh about his latest series Slow Burn | A Podcast About Watergate. Who are the lesser known characters of the scandal? What led to the Republicans ultimately turning on Nixon? And where does what we know now about Trump measure up on the Nixon scale? Listen to the first episode of Slow Burn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every single person around this administration, when asked a direct question about contacts

0:06.1

with Russians, has lied about it.

0:08.2

I don't remember much about that meeting.

0:10.4

It was a very unimportant meeting.

0:12.2

Have we ever seen anything like it?

0:13.6

Yes, I have it.

0:14.6

Yes, we have.

0:15.6

It's called Watergate back in 1972 and 1973.

0:18.9

There's the...

0:22.9

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who just endorsed a wedding

0:29.8

website that accuses Lady Gaga of Satanism.

0:34.7

That's our president, Donald Trump.

0:36.6

I'm Jacob Oysberg.

0:38.7

So we don't usually put anything in our Trumpcast feed other than Trumpcast, but I made an exception

0:44.2

this week for a new slate show that I hope you'll love and that I think you'll find relevant

0:48.7

to everything we've been talking about here.

0:51.2

It's called Slow Burn and it's about Watergate.

0:55.4

Watergate is it was lived and experienced at the time.

0:59.3

It was a great piece of political storytelling and I think you're going to enjoy it.

1:03.6

But it's also an antidote to the idea that we're living through a completely unprecedented

1:08.8

political time.

1:10.6

Because while Richard Nixon was a lot smarter and more competent than Donald Trump, the

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