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Watergate | 7. Saturday Night
Season 1 Episode 7
What did Richard Nixon do when he felt the walls closing in? How did the country respond? And what did it feel like when people finally got to hear those tapes?
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Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Watergate | 6. Rabbit Holes
Season 1 Episode 6
Why were so many Americans ready to believe conspiracy theories after Watergate? How did those beliefs help trigger Nixon‘s downfall? And given what we know about Watergate—what separates a conspirac…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Watergate | 5. True Believers
Season 1 Episode 5
At a bar in Queens, and in the Senate offices, Nixon's supporters stood with him long after it was clear his hands were dirty. How did they rationalize their position? And what, finally, made them wa…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Watergate | 4. Lie Detectors
Season 1 Episode 4
How a folksy segregationist senator, a team of young investigators, and a few whistleblowers staged the hearings that made Watergate must-see TV.
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Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up
Season 1 Episode 3
Woodward and Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, and a host of other journalists tried to make people care about Watergate in the run-up to the 1972 election. They totally failed.
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Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Watergate | 2. The Defeat of Wright Patman
Season 1 Episode 2
In 1973, the Senate Watergate hearings gripped the nation. But the first congressional hearings on the scandal took place a year earlier—and featured an angry Texan shouting at four empty chairs.
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Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Watergate | 1. Martha
Season 1 Episode 1
People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitchell, the celebrity wife of one of Nixon’s closest henchmen, tried to blow the whistle o…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Season 1 Trailer: Watergate
Season 1
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. W…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago