(00:00) Introduction
(06:30) Nicolas' Article on John Dean
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(08:40) Gordon Freedman on Watergate
Remembering the Senate Watergate Committee, see: www.WatergateCommittee.org
Hopefully, this will provide some context for the current political tug-of-war in Washington, DC. What follows is a remembrance. Back to the time of Nixon.
The topic of Watergate brings up a recurring theme about the value of truth and truthfulness in public life. The truth, and the belief in its inherent value, connects directly to the need for an educated populace.
Through my early-life involvement with the Watergate investigation, I came to understand that a well-educated population is necessary to maintain a healthy representative system of government. Without educated voters it is difficult to make tough and necessary choices or fully understand the reasons to vote.
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(11:00) Article by Gary
The idea of investigative reporting is inextricably intertwined with Watergate in the popular and journalistic imagination. But this article traces the long history of the exposé tradition in American journalism, particularly arguing that the evidentiary mindset of investigative reporters first took root in the ferment of 1830s abolitionism. In myriad pamphlets and newspapers, abolitionists began unearthing and laying before the public documentary proof of the abuses of slavery.
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(16:30) William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison (December 10, 1805–May 24, 1879) was one of the most prominent American abolitionists and was both admired and vilified for his unwavering opposition to enslavement in America.
As the publisher of The Liberator, a fiery anti-slavery newspaper, Garrison was at the forefront of the crusade against enslavement from the 1830s until he felt the issue had been settled by the passage of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War.
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