The Story of Watergate

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Fifty years after the Watergate scandal, and endless “gates” later, what can we learn from a children’s book about one of America’s most famous crooks? For this Patreon episode, we looked at the dense and at times, baffling children’s book called The Story of Watergate. Though this is hardly a cool bedtime read, it does shed light on an important moment of reckoning.

Original air date: June 17, 2022

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0:00.0	Quick question for you. Okay. Do you have flashlights? Yeah. Do you have some spare note pads?
0:08.0	Um, yes. Night goggles? I don't know. I don't think so bankers boxes
0:14.8	No recording equipment. Yes, I do have that. Okay a lot of it. I mean how much you need we're're going to the Watergate Hotel.
0:23.7	Um, that sounds great. I'm ready. Yeah. Welcome everyone to American Girls a podcast. This is the show
0:39.8	we're reliving the American Girls series book by, except here in Patreon where we're taking ourselves
0:45.2	to all kinds of locales, including the Watergate Hotel and apartment buildings, that we think
0:51.8	live in the world of our show.
0:53.3	So welcome, I'm Mary.
0:56.2	I'm pleading the fifth.
0:58.1	Wow, okay, I respect that.
1:00.0	Is it part of your presidential papers?
1:01.9	Therefore, we don't have to know your identity?
1:05.2	I'm really not at Liberty to share that information right now,
1:08.8	but under court order, perhaps.
1:11.9	No, so we shouldn't joke about such legal matters, you know, at this or any other time.
1:16.9	It's Gemini season you always have to watch out, but I'm really excited that we decided to kind of jump our shark.
1:25.0	Kind of a revelation I had, this may be the first and only book by a man that we've read on our Patreon.
1:31.0	Really?
1:32.6	Well, Anderson Cooper, but he had a female co-author.
1:36.7	I don't know that we've ever gone so far
1:39.8	into the world of sort of toxic masculinity history.
1:43.7	Holy mackerel, yeah.
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