Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Watergate at Fifty: June 17, 1972 to June 17, 2022

June 19, 2022

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Watergate complex

What was Watergate all about? What was Nixon guilty of and how was he brought to heel? What are the myths that still encrust the story of Watergate? In this episode, this historian fills in the background, exposes the “Woodstein” myths that conceal the truths about Watergate, and briefly makes some cursory comparisons and contrasts with the darker threats to democracy that exist today, with the Trump scandals.















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