What about Watergate?
Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 7:39 pm
Just wondered--there are a lot of ways that certain events come up as reference points here on RI, but I can't think of and/many times that Watergate has figured into discussions. For what it was on it's surface I'm a bit surprised. I'm not sure just how the two are similar or different, but for comparison's sake, seems like the assassination of JFK has a much more central role in our culture--and that could mean just the RI culture, or the larger culture of the MSM and so on.
I haven't done a search to verify this hunch/shoot from the hip statement, but before someone does that to either verify or disprove my hunch, I'm wondering if it strikes other the same way--that we don't talk much about Watergate, and that not doing so is bit odd.
If it matters, this is coming from preparing to teach about Watergate to high schoolers, and trying to get a grip on what all was involved.
I can't teach everything that I might read and agree with here, but I'd welcome input on the what the RI crowd sees as the important and/or untold stories of Watergate.
Thanks for any feeback.
Oh, and by the way--I tried to google 'timeline of Watergate' and 'flowchart of Watergate' and didn't find much. Maybe doing those searches as google.image searches limited things, but kind of strange that there's not a lot of material online telling that story.
...or maybe not so strange.
I haven't done a search to verify this hunch/shoot from the hip statement, but before someone does that to either verify or disprove my hunch, I'm wondering if it strikes other the same way--that we don't talk much about Watergate, and that not doing so is bit odd.
If it matters, this is coming from preparing to teach about Watergate to high schoolers, and trying to get a grip on what all was involved.
I can't teach everything that I might read and agree with here, but I'd welcome input on the what the RI crowd sees as the important and/or untold stories of Watergate.
Thanks for any feeback.
Oh, and by the way--I tried to google 'timeline of Watergate' and 'flowchart of Watergate' and didn't find much. Maybe doing those searches as google.image searches limited things, but kind of strange that there's not a lot of material online telling that story.
...or maybe not so strange.