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[NOTE: The following is an updated & expanded version of a piece I submitted two days ago. It is, of course, speculative, though it is not meant as a prediction. Rather it is meant to lay out one of several possible ways the news of a plea agreement by...
by jaaneezutto
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on Sun Oct 01, 2023 at 04:21 PM PDT
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Recognize the five pictured in the top photo? (James McCord, Virgilio Gonzalez, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez, & Bernard Barker - the Watergate Burglars) How about the lone individual in the mugshot to the right? (Scott Hall - one of the "brains"...
by jaaneezutto
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on Fri Sep 29, 2023 at 04:50 PM PDT
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I vividly remember where I was during Alexander Butterfield's explosive #Watergate public testimony on Monday, July 16, 1973, disclosing #Nixon's oval office audio taping system. I was on the first floor of the Georgia Institute of Technology main...
by Art Smart
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 12:58 AM PDT
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It’s that time of year again, when I think back on the night when I almost missed seeing history, because I was studying history. I was taking summer classes at the University of Pittsburgh that year, including a women’s history course. Unlike most of...
by MeJean
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 05:23 PM PDT
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This evening will be the 49th anniversary of Nixon’s resignation speech. I am not an academic, a historian or political scientist. I only have my personal memories that have been layered with years of conversations, reading books and layered again with...
by josterberg
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on Tue Aug 08, 2023 at 04:02 PM PDT
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On Aug. 7, 1974—49 years ago this week—three powerful Republican lawmakers met with then-President Richard Nixon and told him he wasn’t going to find a reprieve through them: He was going to ...
by Joan McCarter
119 comments
on Thu Aug 03, 2023 at 01:55 PM PDT
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Yesterday was one of the most important days in the history of the world. That sounds like an exaggeration. It is not. There is one superpower in the world today, the United States. Yet Donald Trump ...
by Dem
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on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 07:59 AM PDT
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The GOP 'once saw their roles as legislators first and Republicans second.' Trump has destroyed that One of the many characteristics of The First Former President to be Indicted (Twice Thrice, Four Freaking Times, for now) is that he sucks all the oxygen out of the room of our national public discourse (not to mention that he just sucks in general)....
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Donald Trump has been indicted. My new hero, the courageous D.A., Alvin Bragg, has ignored all the fatuous blather about “whether this is good for the country” or whether “it might boost Trump.” What happened is that an amoral, psychopathic scumbag and...
by wruckusgroink
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on Fri Mar 31, 2023 at 05:52 PM PDT
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A look at some of the Watergate convicts still alive, after-the-jump … But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and .. well, perhaps...
by Ed Tracey
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on Thu Mar 09, 2023 at 07:10 PM PST
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On December 20th the House January 6th Committee referred charges to the Dept. of Justice against Donald Trump for his actions and inactions leading up to and on that infamous day. It was an inevitable and necessary conclusion to the year-and-a-half...
by J Keplar
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on Mon Jan 02, 2023 at 06:35 AM PST
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UPDATE: Sunday, Jan 1, 2023 · 4:20:04 PM +00:00 · Dem I am going to admit right now that this isn’t organized as well as I like it. Who am I kidding, it’s not organized at all. Still, some people may find value in it. Or I may just unpublish it....
by Dem
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on Sun Jan 01, 2023 at 07:50 AM PST
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To that end, can we agree the following decades-old verse (slightly tweaked by this writer) has become notably apt right now? When you’re pestered by critics and hounded by faction To take some resounding and overdue action, The best you can do (to...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Sat Nov 19, 2022 at 11:20 AM PST
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After 160 years, the Internal Revenue Service acknowledges that inflation exists and has a real time impact on working Americans. Has the IRS been spooked into becoming prolife for taxpayers? The transient PM Truss’ timely treasury titillation of...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Tue Nov 01, 2022 at 08:30 AM PDT
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Two generations of the Democratic Party brought us back from a party that had been kept out of the White House for 20 of 24 years (excluding Watergate which is a leading reason Carter won in 1976) . Several of those elections were landslides. We became...
by Dem
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on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 11:30 AM PDT
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Not counting the Jan. 6th Committee which can’t issue indictments but is still of major importance as an investigative body,� Trump is facing�three�investigations which could result in legal ...
by HalBrown
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on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 07:25 AM PDT
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— — Hot off the presses from the Washington Post — those reporters sure do their homework. Seems like they have some very good sources too, from inside Team Trump. I especially like the disclosure about who was directing the operation. Surprise,...
by jamess
249 comments
on Tue Aug 23, 2022 at 07:06 PM PDT
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There seems to be a certain amount of surprise in some quarters that Secret Service texts, Homeland Security texts, and now DOD messages have all gone missing, all of them from around January 6. Really? Surprise? It’s almost as though anything that...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 07:17 AM PDT
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Not� that �70’s show. The other one. Watergate. I’ve been reading Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff and it’s filled with new information that shows the throughline of�corruption of ...
by blueoregon
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on Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Good Morning Friends, Neighbors and seekers of solace and uplift! The Good News Cafe here in Gnuville, in the Oblast of DailyKos, is open for toothsome comments, insightful out-takes, hijacked ...
by WineRev
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on Thu Jul 21, 2022 at 04:04 AM PDT
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