RE: Watergate
It took almost a year from the break in until the Senate began hearings. We are actually well ahead of that time line.
The hearing did not begin until John Dean had come forward and spilled Nixon’s beans. NOBODY saw John Dean coming.
The best news of the day is that ABC and others have actually reported the story. They may have been dragged kicking and screaming into committing random journalism......
That's true, I remember -- I was a grad student back then. Dean is what allowed them to put it all in Haldeman and Ehrlichman's lap. But there were angles there, too, stuff about Mo Dean having been a prostitute (?), Dean being morbidly afraid of prison and rape, several things that make one wonder if we could get as lucky as Sam Ervin was back then, to have witnesses like Dean and loose cannon like Martha Mitchell around to rupture Administration containment efforts.
And we don't have a ruthless newspaper publisher on our side, either.