How Watergate Ruined Everything

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00:00 Intro
03:12 The Lead Up
04:38 Immediate Response
06:22 Nixon Wins Re-election
07:27 The McCord Letter
08:15 Senate Committee & Special Counsel
08:57 Senate Hearing Bombshell
10:17 The Walls Start Closing In
11:36 Watergate 7
12:27 Things Begin to Unravel
13:19 Nixon Resigns
13:51 The Consequences
16:16 Trump & Watergate
21:38 Then vs. Now

[faeangel]

As a kid, all I ever heard were jokes about Watergate, I was never actually taught it. Not in school, not by any adults in my life. And, when I became a late teen/early adult, I was just expected to have suddenly known all about it.

This was the first time I actually got a "lesson" on it

[mushroomsteve]

Pardoning Nixon is what really ruined everything. If Nixon had been held accountable, we wouldn't be in this mess today.

[markwilliams]

I watched the "I'm not a crook" speech live. I was 4. I knew he was lying. Sesame Street/Katain Kangaroo/Mr Rogers had taught me how to spot one.

[reveur]

As a blood relative of Nixon, I thought I'd share that not even his own family like him. Though some still make excuses about Watergate, many use marijuana or smear mud on his name. When I asked my grandmother what he was like, she called him a selfish coward and said that he never cared about family. Even when our family tries to explain or understand his actions, none of us even LIKE him as a person.

[kennystrydom]

Difference with Watergate is that Congress actually held the executive branch accountable. Today, the GOP would have rallied behind Nixon and he would finish his term.

[scottplumer]

I remember my dad, a Republican, being glued to the TV during the hearings. I asked him what Watergate was, being a child of 7 at the time, and all he would say was "a big mess." Thanks for this concise explanation.

[eh]

The worst crime of Nixon is his ruining of the peace deal LBJ negotiated to end the Vietnam War so Nixon can win his first term in office. LBJ knew and discussed it with Nixon on a recorded phone call that was never released until 50 years later by the LBJ library.

Nixon committed treason to get elected and caused the Vietnam War to continue for more years, costing the lives of thousands US service men and likely over a million Vietnamese. The failure of LBJ to direct the DoJ to investigate this crime reverberates to today and the massive reluctance of our institutions to investigate the crimes of top political officials and leaders. The failure of our institutions to hold the treasonous actions of past GOP Presidents (Nixon, Reagan, Bush) should not surprise anyone why Trump believes he can get away with anything.

[JoraAustin]

Justice for Martha Mitchell, holy crap. She probably sucked too, but she tried to do the right thing and was falsely imprisoned and forcibly sedated for days for speaking out. That's terrifying. And that's what they're willing to do to their own!

[jasonryan]

The pardon of Nixon was the greatest crime of this scandal.

[brianarbenz]

I was a 13-year-old precocious political junkie and passionate McGovern supporter when the Watergate scandal broke. And you laid it out clearly and vividly. It was like reliving it in 20 minutes.
And yes, the similarities between Nixon and Trump were remarkable. Nixon an evil genius. Trump was too, except for the genius part.

[CarFreeSegnitz]

The worst effect by far is every scandal since has been labelled {arbitrary word}-gate.

[Juliett-A]

It says a lot about our country when "I'm not confident the former president is literate" is an honest and plausible reality.

[Godd___]

my dad, generally speaking, is a pretty middle ground person when it comes to politics. he says stuff like "well we cant go too extreme on either side, " "things were going fine when i was a kid, " but more recently hes been turning further left. he said that in his 54 years, hes never been more worried about democracy in the US and he thinks if things keep going in the direction they are now its either revolution or allow fascists to plant themselves in the government. just makes me think, you know things are going to shit when people around you who are mostly apolitical are getting worried about the government.

[ttintagel]

I asked my mother what it was like living through Watergate. She said it changed everything for her. She never looked at any authority figure the same way again, with the total, unquestioning trust she used to have. (And yet, she voted for Reagan twice...)

[chrisoneill]

It took the GOP fifty years to get from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. But they made it.

[rickfeenstrastaff]

I was a teenager in high school when the Watergate scandal erupted.
The press coverage seemed to leave info gaps that made it hard to follow the story.
Thx to Leeja and this superb history lesson, there are No more missing parts or pieces of the full story.
Thank you Leeja! Your work has no equal !

[ryantennyson]

Thank you. A fascinating account of the Watergate scandal when I was a teen. We watched the house hearings live on TV in Govrnment classes in high school, my jaw dropped.
At times history does repeat itself, however this time a thief may be re-elected as President. Who's fooled again?

[heronimousbrapson]

I was never able to understand why Nixon did this. He won a huge electoral victory in 1972, before the public knew about the whole Watergate scandal. I can only surmise that he was extremely paranoid. That he was not held accountable was a terrible miscarriage of justice.

[funnlivinit]

There are many, many of us that are as horrified as Leeja about what’s happening to our democracy due to 45 and the GOP.

[eric]

No charges were filed, that was bad enough, but the pardon seemed like an assault on reality itself.