Watergate: The Hidden History and the 2012 Elections

[Judi Lynn]

Watergate: The Hidden History and the 2012 Elections
By Thom Hartmann

Finally, we have answers to the most important remaining questions about Watergate: What were the burglars after and why Nixon was willing to risk his presidency to get it? Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA by Lamar Waldron lays it all out in extraordinary detail.

Perhaps equally important, it also shows how today's poisonous political climate and questionable campaign tactics originated with Nixon, yielding ominous lessons for the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.

Last week was the 40th anniversary of Watergate, when the arrest of White House operatives at the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee triggered a scandal that eventually led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. And perfectly timed, Waldron's new book is filled with bombshell revelations about Nixon's many crimes, that puts Nixon and the scandal in a whole new light.

While much of the recent Watergate anniversary news coverage rehashed decades-old information or Nixon's own spin, Watergate: the Hidden History contains a surprising amount of new information, most of it from the National Archives, some released as recently as April 2012. Some is completely new, while other information has been known for years to historians and investigative journalists who focused on the Mafia or the CIA, but the information never made it into conventional Watergate histories.

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[MichiganVote]

1. I don't think that poisonous politics orginated with Nixon

[bemildred]

2. Not hardly, he wasn't even very good at it.

It goes way back too.

[MichiganVote]

3. Indeed

[Overseas]

4. K&R. Excellent article. So much we didn't know. Four such burglaries, not one...

Interesting to reflect on how the propaganda has disguised the depth of Nixonian dirty tricks, with the widespread "third rate burglary" concept.

Interesting that some of the worst perpetrators of political deceit and vicious campaigning got their start back then.