Trivial Pursuit: Watergate Edition .....

[H2O Man]

Okay, DUers, it's time we stop working before the weekend. Being retired, that poses no problem for me. However, for those who do work, I suggest slowing down now, shifting into a relaxed gear, and playing DU Trivial Pursuit: Watergate Edition. (Tell your supervisor that Water Man okayed your taking off today, and suggested you get "time & a half.")

This first question is perhaps a small tribute to Karl Rove. Please identify the source of this famous Watergate quote: "Let him hang there; let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind."

Feel free to add your own questions. If you have the deluxe edition, throw in a few Iran-Contra questions. This could be fun.

[Hepburn]

1. John Ehrlichman n/t

[HeeBGBz]

2. John Ehrlichman

Who were the "burglars?"

[TahitiNut]

3. Jeopardy 'Answer': Who was Mark Felt's boss?

Jeopardy 'Question': L. Patrick Gray - The man who John Erlichmann wanted to let "twist slowly in the wind".

[H2O Man]

4. Okay!

It looks like we're ready to have teams here. I don't know if "the Lounge" would dare throw down in competition with "General Discussion" in DU Trivial Pursuit: Watergate Edition. Our team is looking like a finely-tuned machine.

Who was Ehrlichman {a} talking to?; and {b} talking about?

I think General Discussion will spank any other team in this little competition.

[Hepburn]

5. IIRC, he told that to John Dean.

Edit to add: He was talking about Gray.

Sorry, I missed that part of your question!

[H2O Man]

6. General discussion

has three pieces of pie.

Okay ..... "what goes 'round comes 'round ... unless you got _________." Fill in the blank.

[Me.]

7. Next Question? n/t

[H2O Man]

10. I think you

are ignoring the question in pist #6. Is there a reason that you would choose to skip that question (#6) and still try to get another question? We need organization, or structure if you will. We can't have orderly anarchy if people skip #6.

[Me.]

11. Conspiracy/Obstruction/Perjury

s relating to espionage?

[H2O Man]

15. Okay ....

"Richard Nixon's head ..... 'cause then ya ain't got nothin."

[hatrack]

8. Who said this to John Dean?

"Because, once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in."

[Me.]

9. Haldeman?

Do I win anything?

[seemslikeadream]

12. Who is this woman?

Extra points for relevance

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

13. That's Martha Mitchell.

Wife of John Mitchell, Nixon's first AG and the Treasurer of CREEP.
CREEP = Comittee to Re-Elect President

She also was known to make late night phone calls to reporters regarding the thugs in the Nixon administration.

[seemslikeadream]

14. Front Row At The White House - My Life And Times

In December 1971 a wire story ran about Vice President Spiro Agnew's gag Christmas gift list. Included on the list were: "For Martha Mitchell, a brand-new Princess phone. For John Mitchell, a padlock for a brand-new Princess phone."
"Why did Martha Mitchell call you?" someone asked me after I filed my first story based on one of her many telephone calls in which she expressed her outraged a few days after the Watergate break-in.
I wasn't the only reporter she called, but I did take her seriously and I wrote about what she told me. Sometimes the stories made it to the wire and sometimes they go spiked. But Martha perhaps put the answer best herself when she told an interviewer, "Helen knows me well enough to know I'm not going to give her a line of bull. We just kind of fell into each other's arms. Several other reporters had been recommended to me, but when I talked to them they were cold fish. They were calculating, and, I thought, unwilling to stick their necks out. Helen Thomas, I knew would print the truth no matter what it cost her personally, and I wanted the truth to be known."(1)
I don't think the dust will ever entirely settle on the Watergate scandal, but I do think Martha deserves more than a footnote in its history. She should be remembered as the woman who tried to blow the whistle on what was going on, but sometimes her stories seemed so out there, it was close to impossible to get anyone to listen. However, I listened and I wrote and I'll let history decide.
I do remember her telling me early on in her time in Washington, "Politics is a dirty business," and I remember equally well a memorable remark her husband made shortly after they arrived: "Watch what we do, not what we say."
http://www.maebrussell.com/Watergate/Helen%20Thomas.html


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