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Slow Burn

Watergate | 8. Going South

Slow Burn

Slate Audio

Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.6 • 25.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What had to happen for the Watergate scandals to end Richard Nixon’s career? And was his downfall inevitable? In the final episode of Slow Burn’s first season, Leon Neyfakh assesses the president’s desperate final campaign to save himself—and the people and institutions that finally brought him down. This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by joining Slate Plus. As a member, you'll unlock full, ad-free access to Slow Burn and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slow Burn show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Richard Nixon liked Spiro Agnew because he presented himself as an uncompromising champion of law and order.

0:36.0

In 1968, Agnew was the governor of Maryland. When riots broke out that year in Baltimore after the assassination of Martin Luther King.

0:44.2

Agnew put them down by bringing in thousands of National Guardsmen and U.S. Army soldiers.

0:48.4

We have local police, state police, and federalized troops on the scene in control.

0:55.2

We know now as never before that the mob is no ally of civil rights.

1:00.6

Nearly 6,000 people were arrested over the course of four days. Six were killed.

1:05.0

When it was all over, Agnew invited a group of civil rights leaders to the state office building in Baltimore.

1:10.0

He proceeded to give a speech in which he chastised them for being anti-white radicals.

1:15.0

It is not evil conditions that cause riots, but evil men, he said.

1:19.0

I cannot believe that the only alternative to white racism is black racism.

1:26.8

Richard Nixon chose Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland

1:30.0

for his vice president.

1:31.6

As Nixon's running mate in 1968,

1:34.2

one of Agnew's primary missions

1:35.7

was to lure in white Southern Democrats.

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