Watergate Revisited with Garrett Graff
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🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
You may think you know all that you need to about the Watergate scandal, its origins, its evolution and its implications. But there has been a lot of new information in the last couple of decades that is simply not in earlier full histories of the scandal. Journalist and popular historian Garrett Graff has written a new history of Watergate called, “Watergate: A New History,” the first overall picture of Watergate in quite some time.
David Priess sat down with Garrett to talk about the contours of the Watergate scandal, and in particular, about some of its national security and foreign policy episodes. They discussed the evolution of Nixon's thinking involving the tapes that he recorded of his White House conversations, the extraordinary order that the Secretary of Defense gave during the height of the scandal to warn soldiers about following the commander-in-chief's orders, and more.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | Donald Trump's name is mentioned only once in the text of this book, but he sort of loons |
| 0:39.9 | over every page of it. |
| 0:42.7 | And one of the things that really becomes clear, I think, is that Richard Nixon put the |
| 0:49.5 | interests of the country first, eventually, that he realized he was probably going to |
| 0:57.1 | lose in the end, but that it was better and sort of more important for him to step down |
| 1:04.5 | and not drag this out for several additional years. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm David Pries and this is the LawFair podcast March 9, 2022. |
| 1:17.5 | You may think you know all that you need to about the Watergate scandal, its origins, |
| 1:22.0 | its evolution and its implications. |
| 1:24.8 | But there's been a lot of new information in the last couple of decades that is simply |
| 1:29.0 | not in earlier full histories of the scandal. |
| 1:34.1 | Journalist and popular historian Garrett Graff has written a new history of Watergate called |
| 1:38.7 | appropriately Watergate, a new history. |
| 1:42.2 | And in this book, he does just that. |
| 1:44.5 | He brings in the information that has come together to write the first overall picture |
| 1:49.2 | of Watergate in quite some time. |
| 1:52.3 | I sat down with Garrett to talk about the contours of the Watergate scandal, but in particular |
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