CBS News Special: Watergate Transcripts Released (1974)

[hadrons]

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Reading from the then just released Watergate transcriptions. No tapes were available, so the transcriptions were read by:

Barry Serafin (Richard Nixon)
Bob Schieffer (John Dean)
Nelson Benton (H. R. Haldeman)

Daniel Schorr provides narration. Discussed are:

"Cancer on the White House"
Start of the Watergate operation
Blackmail money wanted by the burglars
The trouble Howard Hunt (burglars' ringleader) was causing
Prejury

[EFerrari]

1. My boy friend and I sat in our college library and read them

and got shushed by the librarian for laughing out loud.

[LSdemocrat]

2. I miss real newscasts

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Look at Cronkite. THAT was what news sounded like before the Neo-cons.

In his time, and in early Rather time, keeping the trust of the viewing public was the
single most important goal of a responsible newsman.
Cronkite was an idol. Was at CBS for 30 years.
CBS ruled the news channels as long as he was on air.