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Slow Burn

Season 1 Trailer: Watergate

Slow Burn

Slate Audio

Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.625.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

It took two years for the Watergate scandal to unfold—for a break-in at the Democratic Party's headquarters to go from a weird little caper to a constitutional crisis that brought down a president. What was it like to experience those two years in real time? Hosted by Leon Neyfakh. An eight-episode podcast series made possible by Slate Plus members. Coming Nov. 28. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Leon Nefak and I'm the host of Slow Burn, a podcast about Watergate. Before I started

1:05.5

working on this show, everything I knew about Watergate came from the movie All the Presidents

1:10.1

Men. You've probably seen it. But do you remember how it ends? We were in Burnsceners sitting

1:15.5

at their typewriters clacking away and then there's this rapid montage of newspaper

1:19.3

stories about campaign aids and White House officials getting convicted of crimes about

1:24.1

audio tapes coming out that proved Nixon's involvement in the cover-up. The last story

1:28.1

we see is Nixon Resigns. It takes a little over a minute in the movie. In real life, it

1:34.6

took about two years. Five men were arrested early Saturday while trying to install eavesdropping

1:40.6

equipment. It's known as the Watergate Incident. The Democrats were making an issue out of

1:44.8

it. The Republicans were fairly successful at making people think that the Watergate

1:49.2

break-in was politics as usual. What was it like to experience those two years in real

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