How the Watergate scandal changed Washington

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  • Fifty years after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at Washington's Watergate complex, we are still piecing together the story of a crime, and a coverup, that brought down a presidency. CBS News' Robert Costa talks with journalist Garrett Graff, author of "Watergate: A New History," about what we are still learning of a political tragedy, and in what ways the unfolding scandal has shaped Washington today.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 180

  • @lizannewhitlow1085
    @lizannewhitlow1085 2 роки тому +38

    Watergate turned my father, a USAF career officer and a Republican, into a Democrat. God love him.

    • @appnzllr
      @appnzllr 2 роки тому +3

      I was in my 20s when the scandal broke. My parents and I were Republican. But Reagan and Gingrich turned me into a Democrat, and I thank them.

    • @nocap2687
      @nocap2687 2 роки тому +2

      Least We Forget

    • @sharonhamilton4328
      @sharonhamilton4328 2 роки тому

      How? I'm curious

    • @RickyPisano
      @RickyPisano Рік тому +2

      Yeah...because the democrats are on the up and up. 2 wings of the same criminal bird.

    • @cactusjack2264
      @cactusjack2264 2 місяці тому

      Sound naive of your dad 🤦‍♂️ the left is no different from the right, they all play the same game just differently

  • @jeanetteschock4744
    @jeanetteschock4744 2 роки тому +15

    Rachel Maddows show the Bag Man about Spiro Agnew blew me away

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 роки тому +20

    My eighth grade history class watched the Watergate hearings.

    • @IMAS7X
      @IMAS7X 2 роки тому

      Amazing! Did you have to explain a lot to your students to make them understand what was going on during that time? I know there was a guy who was sentenced to jail simply because he refused to answer questions.

  • @nancyturner3959
    @nancyturner3959 2 роки тому +11

    I took recent American History in high school that summer. We watched all of the Watergate hearings. History was unfolding in front of us.

    • @IMAS7X
      @IMAS7X 2 роки тому +1

      History repeats itself as well.

    • @lizannewhitlow1085
      @lizannewhitlow1085 2 роки тому

      As it is unfolding now. 🙈

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 роки тому +13

    "Follow the money see where it goes."
    Next time I watch Hamilton and hear that line, I'll know where it came from.

  • @Labor_Jones
    @Labor_Jones 2 роки тому +22

    *It's pretty simple... as the RICH GOT RICHER our Democracy became Weaker!*

    • @mandyinseattle
      @mandyinseattle 2 роки тому

      Nothing is as simple as that. Mix in "white supremacy" with greed, Putin, and the NRA, and you get today's Republican party.

    • @Labor_Jones
      @Labor_Jones 2 роки тому

      @@mandyinseattle but none of those other items would exist as large as they've become UNTIL there was a FINACIAL Solution to the cost each operation have.
      .... This is more complex, but what platoons are in the ARMY of the RICH & WEALTHY are still in the ARMY of the RICH.
      .... These other matters have their power only because the MONEY supports their work.... and WE ARE BACK TO THE RICH again.

    • @RealMTBAddict
      @RealMTBAddict 2 роки тому

      This is a Constitutional Republic

  • @chrisfinch8637
    @chrisfinch8637 2 роки тому +23

    All the Presidents Men was a pretty good film to display the events surrounding the whole issue.

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 2 роки тому +15

    History continues to repeat itself.

    • @dondoyle8474
      @dondoyle8474 2 роки тому +2

      History does not repeat itself humans repeat history 🤔

    • @lewstone5430
      @lewstone5430 2 роки тому +1

      @Don Doyle, almost. Unwise humans repeat bad choices which makes “history repeat(s) itself”.

    • @jonskywalker2899
      @jonskywalker2899 2 роки тому

      I’m so happy Biden is president, he’s the best one I’m my lifetime.

  • @charlesritt5088
    @charlesritt5088 2 роки тому +9

    I remember growing up most of my parents friends and relatives thinking how great president nixon was, and then when watergate hit many of the same people would say what a corrupt bum he was. It taught me a valuable life lesson in that so called adults are not always consistant and only just want to be on the winning team

    • @sharonhamilton4328
      @sharonhamilton4328 2 роки тому

      I was few years from voting.. I had personal interest in Vietnam. He ended it. Ford got credit.
      Now not Nixon, but a hunter biden. Smh

  • @tobechukwuolumba7337
    @tobechukwuolumba7337 2 роки тому +6

    Fantastic piece

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      This is a propaganda piece in favor of the left. Beware.

  • @mindakahn9964
    @mindakahn9964 2 роки тому +13

    Doing the most difficult thing is what makes heroes. Prevarication will be the legacy of many in the Republican Party.
    I can’t play along with their twisted games.
    Love, former Republican.
    Independent
    New rule: please don’t vote for someone who is not as bright as you.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      Warning: CBS is a propaganda arm of the Democratic party. CBS can not be trusted as an objective and neutral news source.

    • @stinkertoy4310
      @stinkertoy4310 2 роки тому +2

      Lets go brandon!

    • @bthemedia
      @bthemedia 2 роки тому

      Good thing Bo Biden recorded himself so much just like Nixon, just like Brandon!

  • @robwasilewski9273
    @robwasilewski9273 2 роки тому +4

    Truly unbelievable

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      Warning: CBS is a propaganda arm of the Democratic party. CBS can not be trusted as an objective and neutral news source.

    • @jonskywalker2899
      @jonskywalker2899 2 роки тому

      Not really, ever President probably does it.

  • @joaquinpraveenvishnu8509
    @joaquinpraveenvishnu8509 2 роки тому

    Fantastically put! I have always been obsessed with Watergate, President Nixon and the Pentagon Papers

  • @tomsurber2293
    @tomsurber2293 2 роки тому +2

    Nary a single mention of Woodward/Bernstein and the Washington Post in this story is absurd and embarrassingly negligent.

  • @dianalee3059
    @dianalee3059 Рік тому +1

    My daughter will be 50 years old this year. When she was born I was so overjoyed to have her I lost myself in early motherhood, only briefly aware of what was going on with Watergate. But I certainly learned about it not long afterward. What a blight on our history, what a fool was made of Nixon who had to resign in disgrace. I love the movie All the President’s Men, a film that had to be made. I truly admire Woodward and Bernstein, difficult as all that was.

  • @bennyboogenheimer4553
    @bennyboogenheimer4553 2 роки тому +3

    No mention of Henry Kissinger, and how he told Nixon, "he MUST record his actions for Poserity!!"
    Nixon the Man who opened up China. "If nothing else, they'll always work cheaper"
    On Russia, "They're a paper tiger that our military needs, to keep America working."
    Watch the last 10 minutes of 2008 Frost/Nixon, it says it all.

    • @mindakahn9964
      @mindakahn9964 2 роки тому +1

      You’re right. Except that he pooed on his legacy. Between trump and and Elizabeth Holmes he’s really winning.

  • @bethrichardson5364
    @bethrichardson5364 2 роки тому +5

    The voting age was reduced in time for me to vote for Nixon at age 18. Cast my ballot at the same rural high school I attended. Voted for Nixon. Sorry 'bout that. I well remember Watergate. Chucked the Repugnacants when Regan was in office and have never looked back.

    • @luckyleo24
      @luckyleo24 2 роки тому

      Cool story Boomer

    • @tomloft2000
      @tomloft2000 2 роки тому

      Nixon won 49 states, so don"t feel like you were alone.

  • @janyceparks8326
    @janyceparks8326 2 роки тому +4

    You could have been talking about Trump.

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 2 роки тому +1

    Although he never publicly apologised for his handling of Watergate, the closest we got to that was during British journalist David Frost's interviews with the disgraced Nixon in 1977. While best remembered for the infamous line "well when the President does it, that means that it's not illegal," there was a small section where Richard Nixon said, "I let the American people down, and that's a burden I'll have carry with me for the rest of my life,"

  • @lizannewhitlow1085
    @lizannewhitlow1085 2 роки тому +6

    Watching Gaslit on STARZ and the new CNN limited series has sparked my interest. I’ve gotten through some of the SLOW BURN podcast episodes too. The GOP are rotten to the core, and it’s 100% worse now.

    • @maryscott_50
      @maryscott_50 2 роки тому

      You are so right. My mother told me in the 70's that Republicans will do any dirty trick to win an election. She was in her 50's then, and had witnessed so much of it.

    • @jonskywalker2899
      @jonskywalker2899 2 роки тому

      Absolutely, I’m young and I think Biden is the best President we have ever had.

  • @jerryblair4106
    @jerryblair4106 Місяць тому

    I was high school when this happened we studied it in my history class I was a junior in highschool.

  • @rebeccaduncan5366
    @rebeccaduncan5366 2 роки тому +1

    when water gate had showing how high rank men of power and office was made and lost out into the end too, as for why not seeing it was 1973 i Robert K was born in the year of it back then is not cool and others had to get out of the bad stuff now,

  • @CUBICUB
    @CUBICUB 2 роки тому +3

    Nixon sounds like another president we know

  • @NevadaBoss
    @NevadaBoss 2 роки тому +3

    "All the criminals in their coats and their ties, are free to drink martinis, and watch the sunrise....steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot...and they make you king."-Dylan. Bigly true. Believe me. That I can tell you....

  • @nocap2687
    @nocap2687 2 роки тому +4

    Elephants never forget.

    • @nocap2687
      @nocap2687 2 роки тому

      @UncleMikeNJ Ronald who?

  • @arktos298
    @arktos298 2 роки тому +2

    Watergate at 50: The political scandal that changed Washington. Rewite: Watergate at 50: The crime that changed Washington.

  • @Maddiehere89
    @Maddiehere89 2 роки тому +2

    God knows how much I hate Fox

  • @George-ni5ic
    @George-ni5ic 2 роки тому +2

    And don’t forget that Roger Ailes worked for Nixon. He probably believed that his hero, Nixon, shouldn’t have had to step down and vowed to protect future republican criminals.

  • @DeAngeloStevens
    @DeAngeloStevens 6 місяців тому

    I wasn't even born in 1974 but Carlton Banks from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Princess Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Mario from Totally Spies was born.

  • @1927su
    @1927su 2 роки тому

    I remember this so well ! In those days everyone still had a radio & every home in our neighborhood had the hearings blaring , and all us kids heard it, at whatever house we were playing at.
    Even tho my Mom was a Democrat, NOT EXCUSING his illegal and unethical behavior,she still felt some human compassion for Nixon as a human being, watching him giving his resignation speech. I remember her thinking “ Tho we all as humans have some experience that makes us angry or upset, but what happens to a person in their lifetime , to make them go ahead and do things like he did?” I wonder the same thing about former President Trump and all his GOP Enablers..

  • @dh8956
    @dh8956 2 роки тому

    I would love to see an, compare and contrast, of this event and the 2016 election.

  • @appnzllr
    @appnzllr 2 роки тому +1

    They spent so much time on stuff we all know that there was very little time spent on "How the Watergate scandal changed Washington." I kept saying, We all knew that!

  • @robbcervss595
    @robbcervss595 2 роки тому +1

    And Capone changed the banks.

    • @mindakahn9964
      @mindakahn9964 2 роки тому

      Al Capone fed people during the depression in his soup kitchens more effectively than our government.

  • @mandyinseattle
    @mandyinseattle 2 роки тому +12

    The January 6th hearings will not get the same viewership in real time as the Watergate hearings did and which my mother watched every minute of, but with DVRs and UA-cam and C-SPAN and online sharing of clips, I think plenty of people will watch these hearings. I sure hope so, because a lot is on the line.

    • @mindakahn9964
      @mindakahn9964 2 роки тому

      The big problem is that the base doesn’t give a damn. In the seventies just 30 years after winning a world war we cared.
      I went to school in Europe for almost five years, everyone thought we were hero’s. We were the strongest most powerful nation. This new political behavior is chipping away at our claims of being a republic and our prestige.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      Warning: CBS is a propaganda arm of the Democratic party. CBS can not be trusted as an objective and neutral news source.

    • @mrrey8937
      @mrrey8937 2 роки тому +1

      Jan 6th hearings cannot be taken seriously when Democrats say it was almost the end of democracy, that the US government almost fell, far from it.

    • @mandyinseattle
      @mandyinseattle 2 роки тому

      @@mrrey8937 You should read more.

    • @mrrey8937
      @mrrey8937 2 роки тому +1

      @@mandyinseattle your assumptions are unfounded

  • @DougGrinbergs
    @DougGrinbergs 2 роки тому +1

    5:26 JFK and LBJ had taping systems, too.

  • @alexwells9948
    @alexwells9948 2 роки тому +2

    8:39 Friday CBS will present a special report called Watergate High Crimes in the White House as we mark the 50th anniversary of the Watergate hearings which brought down Richard Nixon its airs at 9/8 Eastern time Sunday Morning will return

  • @philliprhinehardt6268
    @philliprhinehardt6268 2 роки тому

    Watergate still holds up over 50 years later.

  • @joshuaguenin9507
    @joshuaguenin9507 2 роки тому

    Now every scandal ends in "gate" because of this

  • @kennethwilson8633
    @kennethwilson8633 2 роки тому

    All you old people need to get over it we have news today that needs attention.

  • @rubana7487
    @rubana7487 2 роки тому +2

    I read that Nixon used hit his wife Pat

    • @mindakahn9964
      @mindakahn9964 2 роки тому

      Well that goes against everything Quaker.

    • @rubana7487
      @rubana7487 2 роки тому

      @@mindakahn9964 he was
      an angry man with victim complex

  • @jake105
    @jake105 2 роки тому

    John Erlichman said in an interview 10 yrs on from Watergate "That the Whitehouse staff did nothing on their own initiative. They were carrying out Richard Nixon's instructions day to day".
    30 yrs on from Watergate, Jeb Magruder said he could hear Richard Nixon's voice on the telephone while speaking to AG John Mitchell regarding whether or not the Watergate caper was worth doing. . Nixon says: "The only way to get the dirt on Larry O'Brien was for Liddy's team to break into the DNC office at the Watergate".
    (The dirt was proof that Larry O'Brien was involved in a scheme to confuse and embarrass Richard Nixon surrounding information related to the president's brother Donald and Howard Hughes.

  • @Thedecider1984
    @Thedecider1984 2 роки тому +5

    Is everything about trump

    • @ebybeehoney
      @ebybeehoney 2 роки тому +1

      Right now, yes. Just like everything political is about Watergate. This article effectively argues that.

    • @774kblake
      @774kblake 2 роки тому +6

      Cult members cannot see anything wrong with their cult- thanks for confirming that ...again.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      @@ebybeehoney You just watched a propaganda piece for the democrat party. Beware of Orwellian disinformation thrown at you.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      @@ebybeehoney Warning: CBS is a propaganda arm of the Democratic party. CBS can not be trusted as an objective and neutral news source.

    • @jonskywalker2899
      @jonskywalker2899 2 роки тому

      Talking about a ex president is a losing battle for us Dems, we need to focus on getting Biden the credit he desires. My favorite president.

  • @RealMTBAddict
    @RealMTBAddict 2 роки тому +4

    Enough with the politics...

    • @chrisfinch8637
      @chrisfinch8637 2 роки тому +1

      If only there was a way, but so far…..there’s no way.

  • @kathleengooch3619
    @kathleengooch3619 2 роки тому +1

    I was 11 when water gate happened.

    • @ilovegoodsax
      @ilovegoodsax 2 роки тому

      So was I and remember the hearings pre-empted daytime television programming the following summer of '73 which as a kid, annoyed me to no end.

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 2 роки тому

      @@ilovegoodsaxBut I think it's important to understand how democracy is fragile at a young age.

  • @Fister-kw5un
    @Fister-kw5un 2 роки тому +3

    How the Russia Conspiracy Theory made journalists lose all credibility is a better video to create.

  • @hochhasd1
    @hochhasd1 2 роки тому

    What about hunter Biden hate, please

  • @sheep4521
    @sheep4521 2 роки тому +1

    Deep Throat? wtf?

    • @Sueb18631
      @Sueb18631 2 роки тому +2

      Code name of the anonymous informant who gave Woodward and Bernstein the Watergate information.

    • @sheep4521
      @sheep4521 2 роки тому

      @@Sueb18631 I know, it’s that that it’s an interesting code name. Lol

    • @zacherymayer4847
      @zacherymayer4847 2 роки тому

      @@Sueb18631 👍

  • @IvanSartbekov
    @IvanSartbekov 2 роки тому +10

    Cbs just as biased as everyone else.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      Warning: CBS is a propaganda arm of the Democratic party. CBS can not be trusted as an objective and neutral news source.

    • @Madbandit77
      @Madbandit77 2 роки тому +4

      Okay, Trumpanzee...

    • @elsabean6791
      @elsabean6791 2 роки тому +3

      Biased toward the truth. Sorry that offends you so.

  • @cueball7428
    @cueball7428 2 роки тому

    Liz Cheney 😂😅. Her public utterances are saturated with the virtues of Rousseau's Rhetoric 😢

  • @ANDRE-sp2mi
    @ANDRE-sp2mi Рік тому

    🙏🙏🙏 Thank God I for my freedom. 💯 percent greatful I have overcome the world 🗺 Thank God I have a chance to have a marriage and a family. Isaiah 54 Genesis 15. Thank God for another blessed opportunity.

  • @christinacascadilla4473
    @christinacascadilla4473 2 роки тому +8

    All hail corporate synergy! Another advertisement for a book the parent company is publishing.

    • @mandyinseattle
      @mandyinseattle 2 роки тому +2

      This may surprise you but some people like to learn things and to know what happened, which is why there's a market for these books. You should try reading.

    • @christinacascadilla4473
      @christinacascadilla4473 2 роки тому +1

      @@mandyinseattle first of all, I have a masters degree in literature. Second, what book, movie, or TV show have they recently done a segment on that wasn’t a Paramount product? These are just advertisements. Like when each year Good Morning America broadcasts from Disney World. Disney owns both ABC and, obviously, Disney. It’s a week-long advertisement for Disney World. I already know about Watergate.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      Warning: CBS is a propaganda arm of the Democratic party. CBS can not be trusted as an objective and neutral news source.

    • @elsabean6791
      @elsabean6791 2 роки тому +1

      Oh no, a media company using networking to produce content, how horrible! It’s unlike anything any other media company does and they must be stopped! Oh the humanity 😩

    • @christinacascadilla4473
      @christinacascadilla4473 2 роки тому +1

      @@elsabean6791 I guess you are okay with advertisements in the guise of news stories.

  • @sharonhamilton4328
    @sharonhamilton4328 2 роки тому

    Yet look at hunter biden...

  • @joesb4hose370
    @joesb4hose370 2 роки тому +2

    If only Nixon would've had Obama's DOJ, he wouldn't have had to resign.

    • @emsleywyatt3400
      @emsleywyatt3400 2 роки тому +3

      You kidding me? His AG was his former campaign manager.

    • @elsabean6791
      @elsabean6791 2 роки тому +1

      What crime did Obama commit again?

  • @dondoyle8474
    @dondoyle8474 2 роки тому +8

    Let’s hear about Hunters laptop and what it contains. It holds information that will make watergate and Jan 6th look like a walk in the park FACT!!!🤔

    • @katwil89
      @katwil89 2 роки тому

      Hunter Biden is not now, nor has he ever been president. No one cares.

    • @tessiree
      @tessiree 2 роки тому +6

      ….and you know that…how?
      Back yourself up with facts.
      Unsubstantiated defamatory accusations are considered slander.

    • @mandyinseattle
      @mandyinseattle 2 роки тому

      You should watch more than Fox because they lie to you for profit.

    • @dondoyle8474
      @dondoyle8474 2 роки тому

      @@tessiree if it isn’t then why did the FBI try to hide it 🤔 your the one that needs to do more research.

    • @Seekthetruth3000
      @Seekthetruth3000 2 роки тому

      Warning: CBS is a propaganda arm of the Democratic party. CBS can not be trusted as an objective and neutral news source.

  • @jacobstopper3804
    @jacobstopper3804 2 роки тому +1

    First