Slate Plus Podcast - Slow Burn

Prins remembers having to pack up his boxes of investigative work, all the notes he had taken during his interviews with possible witnesses. Patman's work on watergate was vindicated in 19 74 when the white house's effort to obstruct his investigation earned a mention in the articles of impeachment against nixon. But then six months later, patman was ousted as chairman of the house banking committee. Ironically enough, it happened thanks to the wave of democratic reformers who swept into congress after nixon's resignation - the so called watergate babies. To those newly elected lawmakers, patman seemed like a relic of a bygone age and whose depression air of populism didn't really resignate with sevent