Nixon and Watergate - No Whitewash

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Richard Nixon provided more than his fair share of enduring images. But his grim faced television resignation provided the most remarkable one. Caught in lies over the cover up of the Watergate burglary, and famously investigated by Woodward and Bernstein at Katherine Graham's Washington Post, the most powerful man in the world was brought to his political end. Politicians everywhere seem always ready to use deceipt and lies to pursue their aims or excuse their actions, recent times should surely teach us that. So this video could be taken as applying to them in general. But Richard Nixon set the benchmark, And he made that most unforgivable of errors... he got caught. Bob Dylan sang 'Dont follow leaders, and watch your parking meters'. Sounds like good advice! This music and video comes from the album project 'Image Conscious', music inspired by famous images from the news. It is a personal view and impression of that time, and is by no means a complete or historically accurate record. News clips and stills are drawn from various sources and times, the elephant cartoon is by Herbert Block of the Washington Post. Original music and video compilation by Plug.
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[utubeviewer021]

great with foreign policy...

just sayin'.

[theinsane102]

Evidence on the Internet, nice

[standrews119h]

The sequence of events contained in editions of the Washington Post inhibited the ability of Nixon to govern,and also led to the consequent investigations by a congressionnal commission.Notwithstanding the intensive denials by the Nixon administration,the ultimate consequences of the scandal were Nixon's resignation and harm to the government's reputation.Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein never used the stars in the sky as guides to confirm their position.

[ScottieDawgxD]

Did he mention his years of public life?

[FRUX2008]

good president

[bgold20]

@MIKESOWELL nome

[lukafafrenz]

@Tyronethe24th please check this site for "bill still" posts -- gold standard is not the answer (reagan examined going back to it & decided not to) -- the federal reserve and the gold standard are both equally bad ideas

[Einsteinbomb]

Besides Watergate he was truly the ideal of what the Republican Party should be today.

[Tyronethe24th]

@MIKESOWELL Going off the gold standard did a lot more harm than the cover-up of the idiotic break-in (which Nixon almost certainly did not authorize or know about).

[MIKESOWELL]

@bgold20 The Checkers speech was in 1952, when he was 39.....does Nixon look 39 in that clip?