Notes From the Undertow - Deeper than Most - Jerry Burke (Deep Throat)

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A cool editorial that really hits it on the head as to what's been going on with the poor excuse for the media these days, and contrasting to the earlier times when Deep Throat and the media worked properly along with a public willing to listen to properly put away a criminal administration. This editorial sums it up rather well.

http://www.liherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14665936&BRD=1601&PAG=461&dept_id=477736&rfi=6
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Notes from the Undertow

By Jerry Burke June 09, 2005

Deeper than most

On June 17, 1972, at 2:30 a.m., five men were arrested trying to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington. Two weeks later, the Washington Post revealed that a $25,000 cashier's check earmarked for the Nixon campaign wound up in the bank account of one of the burglars, Bernard L. Barker.

On Oct. 10, 1972, FBI agents established that the Watergate break-in stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon re-election effort. The bombshell had little effect, for on Nov. 7, 1972, President Nixon was re-elected in one of the largest landslides in American political history, crushing Democratic Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota.

The investigation, however, continued. On May 18, 1973, the Senate Watergate Committee began nationally televised hearings. Highlights included White House counsel John Dean saying he discussed the Watergate cover-up with Nixon at least 35 times, and Alexander Butterfield, the former presidential appointments secretary, revealing that since 1971, Nixon had recorded all conversations and telephone calls in his offices.

Nixon refused to turn over the presidential tape recordings to the Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor, Archibald Cox. On Oct. 20, 1973, Nixon fired Cox and abolished the office entirely. A month after declaring, "I'm not a crook," Nixon and the White House could not explain an 18 1Ž2-minute gap in a transcript of one of the subpoenaed tapes.

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