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The Implications of Watergate
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Item Title The Implications of Watergate
Guest Clark, Robert P.
Guest Murphy, Reg (1934-)
Guest Powell, James O.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedMay 16, 1973
Description

The semi-annual occasion on which the guests put their host on the firing line-in this case, mostly on the subject of Watergate, which had been simmering since just a few days after the break-in the previous June but had only become the daily staple of our front pages when Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, and five others were put on trial in January. WFB and his guests mostly remand the details of what happened at the Watergate and who ordered it to a time when more evidence is in; instead, the crackling discussion ranges from the possibility of changing the presidential tenure to a single, six-year term, to how Congresses have historically dealt with a President who has been repudiated but is still in office (e.g., Herbert Hoover in 1931), to the continuing war in Vietnam. WFB: "If you live in a society in which lawlessness becomes intellectually fashionable, as it was in this country during the last ten years, you beget, I think, a counter-countercultural lawlessness of which Watergate is an example."

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Place RecordedLouisville, Kentucky, United States
DimensionsDuration: 59 minutes, 10 seconds
FormatMoving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0092
Record Number80040.336
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