Nobody is treating the Post article as “breaking news” except perhaps the FReeper who posted it. Did you go to the link and read the full article? It’s just a retrospective with material added from declassified Oval Office transcripts.
I lived through Watergate, too. An oldster now, I watched it unfold for two years as a young adult — naive, patriotic, and fascinated by politics. Shameful days then, like shameful things happening now.
It’s not good to forget, and it’s not good when we look only at our lifetimes for knowledge. There are lessons to be learned from the empires and failures of the past, both centuries ago and just 40 years ago.
Hoping for another purge this year.
Who can forget, we are drenched in the story over and over and over.
If you have a bad memory then keep reading the breaking news stories and “retrospectives”, I have been sick of it for decades.
Once in the long distant past it was news but now it is just another constant news loop of the left used mostly during election years.
It is what they use to smear republicans and to keep from having to report on democrat administrations and the Reagan years and bringing down the soviet Union and so on.