It’s been a while since I have read a book about Watergate (I wasn’t born until over a decade later) but you are correct on that note. For anyone who was around at that time though, what is different? Is it just the media? I don’t see why Nixon fell for less but it seems like the current WH might get away with wiping it under the rug.... at least so far... we’ll see once further investigation is made I guess
Watergate took a long time to become a really big story and it wasn’t until Jim Baker asked that famous question when the establishment figured out that Nixon was hurting their image.
I was in Teheran during the whole thing and remember when they sent CIA Director Richard Helms to Iran in hopes of hiding him as the ambassador to a country nobody had heard of. That was 1973. Being my job was as a tech controller for the Army’s STRATCOM communications facility, I was able to patch the AP/UPI teletype line into the control room and get the news unvarnished because the AFRTS was censored over there.
The press really had to work hard for a long time to get the public concerned about the break-ins but then again you have to remember that people in general were of a high moral caliber at the time so it was much worse than it could ever have been now. I honestly think that today nobody would give a hoot and in essence would consider it SOP.
So today we have people in the upper levels of government involved in a scandal far more egregious than a simple office break-in.
Watergate took a long time to become a really big story and it wasn’t until Jim Baker asked that famous question when the establishment figured out that Nixon was hurting their image.
I was in Teheran during the whole thing and remember when they sent CIA Director Richard Helms to Iran in hopes of hiding him as the ambassador to a country nobody had heard of. That was 1973. Being my job was as a tech controller for the Army’s STRATCOM communications facility, I was able to patch the AP/UPI teletype line into the control room and get the news unvarnished because the AFRTS was censored over there.
The press really had to work hard for a long time to get the public concerned about the break-ins but then again you have to remember that people in general were of a high moral caliber at the time so it was much worse than it could ever have been now. I honestly think that today nobody would give a hoot and in essence would consider it SOP.
So today we have people in the upper levels of government involved in a scandal far more egregious than a simple office break-in.