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PoindexterOglethorpe

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4. Watergate: A New History

Reply to ExWhoDoesntCare (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2023, 08:58 PM

Dec 2023

by Garrett M. Graff.

I was already an adult by time Nixon was elected (turned 20 in 1968) and especially since I lived in the DC area, worked at DCA as a ticket agent, I remember his presidency and the many events related to Watergate. But this book is eye-opening in that I didn't fully appreciate just how criminal Nixon and his staff were, how blithely they ignored laws, how many truly incompetent people were promoted to high office. Wow.

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