Politico runs an excerpt from Garrett Graff’s new e book, Watergate: A New Historical past:
“Misplaced in our reminiscence of Watergate is that the DNC housebreaking — itself some of the odd moments in American politics — was once in fact the least zany (and unlawful) plan the Nixon marketing campaign had pondered. The written file is replete with forgotten number one and secondary assets, from which this account is drawn, that divulge how the break-in wasn’t some rogue operation however a part of a miles better playbook.”
“Liddy, a reelection marketing campaign operative, began out with a chain of proposals, from which the plan that may result in the Watergate was once decided on; the ones plans concerned specifically provided surveillance planes, kidnappings, unlawful, laundered marketing campaign donations, intercourse employees despatched to entice Democratic powerbrokers again to a king-sized mattress on a houseboat and wiretaps and spies galore — no longer simply on the Watergate however within the Democratic presidential marketing campaign’s headquarters as neatly.”
Watergate: A New Historical past
- Amazon Kindle Version
- Graff, Garrett M. (Writer)
- English (Newsletter Language)
- 823 Pages – 02/15/2022 (Newsletter Date) – Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (Writer)
