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Watergate | 2. The Defeat of Wright Patman

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Watergate - A Podcast About Watergate

This is a story about being thwarted. Richard nixon did not want his administration subjected to high profile hearings on watergate before the 19 72 election. Such a spectacle could prove disastrous to the campaign. And so nixon and his cronies neutralized patman's intg with both surgical interference and brute force. What happens when the president uses the machinery of the government to protect himself against an outside threat? D what does it feel like when you are that threat and the most powerful person in the country shuts you down?

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