Watergate: A Geographic History
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In the early 1970s, obsessed by media leaks and government secrecy, Richard Nixon established a secret group of spies to collect information and disrupt his political enemies. In June 1972 the spies broke into an office at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. About two years later, Nixon resigned the presidency in the wake of the scandal. You may know all this, but do you know about the deep geographical, personal and historical connections between the various events in the Watergate scandal? In this video we'll look at the whole Watergate affair from a geographical perspective, and you'll see that, far from being a story that takes place mostly in offices and courtrooms, Watergate was a series of events with a truly global reach.
Sources for this video include Garrett M. Graff, Watergate: A New History (New York: Avid Reader Press, 2022); Ken Hughes, Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, The Chennault Affair and the Origins of Watergate (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014); Richard Nixon, The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (London: Arrow Books, 1978), and numerous primary source documents from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.
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Chapters:
00:00-10:44: The Geographic Story
10:44-22:00: Watergate
22:00-34:37: Richard Nixon
34:37-48:24: Vietnam
48:24-1:06:33: The Roots of Watergate
1:06:33-1:21:41: The Plumbers
1:21:41-1:32:07: The Cover-Up
1:32:07-1:42:48: The Tapes
1:42:48-1:55:01: The Scandal
1:55:01-2:01:19: Resignation
2:01:19-2:08:47: The Aftermath
2:08:47-2:11:35: Conclusion
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“It’s also a story, believe it or not, about geography” shook me more than the scandal ever could. A truly brilliant Munger Moment
Mean this in jest of course, enjoying sitting down for the evening and listening to this Sean, much appreciation as always for doing history ‘content’ so professionally
Certified Munger Moment occurred this day
No way bro stop POSTING SPOILERS 😢
I feel like this is a reference to another youtube comment somewhere else, am I crazy?
One of the munger moments of all time
I worked on the TV show with G Gordon Liddy. He was an interesting complicated guy. My wife was going to an art exhibition in DC so I asked Gordon to recommend a hotel. He said, “I would recommend the Watergate, but I have only been in the walls“ at least he had a good sense of humor.
Excellent story! Love it.
This video killed Kissinger
rest in piss
Another reason to love this video
I just wanna say I feel like your channel is personally designed for me. Please never stop making these deep dive videos they’re so good.
It's amazing how often I'll read comments where people sort of retroactively frame Nixon as a pragmatic centrist, a "respectable politician compared to today", or even as someone who was unfairly scapegoated. Thank you for producing a video that so clearly and definitively shows that none of these things are true.
Personally I would take Nixon over Reagan all day. Reagan entrenched classist and racist ideas very deeply in the American psyche and had far more domestic ’’achievements’’ than did Nixon.
@@drtg101we7Reagan used Nixon's playbook
@@drtg101we7That's not saying very much. Reagan destroyed what is means to be American more than anyone else other than the confederates
@@drtg101we7that may be true, but it doesn't matter. They were both absolute scumbags and helped lay out the groundwork for an alarming amount of the BS we have to deal with today
@@xp8969 I don't think they were ideologically identical, if they were, Nixon would not have expanded benefits.
This channel is so underrated. You are one of the best history educators on this platform. Everything from how deep your videos are to your style of delivery to how you shape a story is just perfect.
As someone who is completely uninterested in geography, I commend you for making me watch this whole video.
I can’t believe this quality of scholarship is on TH-cam. A person ought to pay a fee to get this kind of knowledge. It’s amazing, really.
That'll be $5, please. 😂
@@SeanMungerI'll put it in the "tip jar", next to the "swear jar", ok? 😂
It would definitely be nice for people who really appreciate this quality of education!! Where would one donate?
Just 3 days after the release of this video, one of the key figures in the Nixon Admin, Henry Kissinger passed away.
Your use of google earth (as someone currently learning to create videos using the same tools) is absolutely incredible, I loved this whole vid! Your channel is def top tier at this point
People don't know this now, but before all the scandals Nixon was seen as something of a visionary breathing new life into Washington. He came from a lower-class background and got into university on a merit-based scholarship making him look like an average working family man, helping maintain a dignified public image. His ultimate goal was to bring the two parties together into one by embracing the economic and welfare state policies of the Democrats whilst doing away with the faux progressivism of Democrats and absconding the "party of northern liberal Lincoln" street cred of the Republicans. Seen in his '68 and '72 campaign strategy, focusing on the Great Society in blue states and appealing to "conservative social attitudes" (i.e. be racist) in red states. This won him every state except MA, something no president since the implementation of universal suffrage has been able to accomplish.
He was, of course, a paranoid bigoted crook.
It's like he was trying to be a Walmart brand Mussolini lol
“I welcome this kind of examination. People need to know whether their president is a crook.”
I remember seeing a documentary on Kent State where they interviewed cops involved in policing the protests. Kent was a blue collar rust belt town on a downhill slide. Many of the people in town, including the cops, hated the "elitist" college students. He actually described beating young men and women with his club with pride, seriously injuring men and women.
Nixon was more of a slimebag than I thought he was at the time this happened.
I love the way you frame and approach every topic you cover, so engaging from start to finish.
Thank you so much!
Wonderful job. The geography angle really makes the history tangible, and is also the ultimate "What Happened To ..." tool. It worked with the Manson video; it works here. One thing this fine video also did is remind me that it's about time for my yearly rewatch of "All the President's Men". That's a fantasy movie for me: where a Free Press speaks truth to Power, where people are punished no matter how powerful they are. Actually, 50 years ago, it wasn't a fantasy.
not sure you can say that people were punished no matter how powerful they are when Nixon was pardoned before he was ever charged or convicted of a crime. I don't care how much they tried to clean that up - it is a stain that does not come out - each subsequent republican president has broken the law badly - quite likely worse than Nixon - that can be traced directly to this idea that we do not hold leaders accountable for criminal behavior.
39:28 "There go 5,000 unsubscribers right there" made me laugh. Fantastic and informative and just generally well made video as always, Sean
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Thanks!
very happy to see this collab
Here we go boys!
jeeesus. Were was this channel all my life! This is by far the best channel regarding historical topics!
I choose to believe that this video is what made Henry Kissinger drop dead three days later 🙏🤲🎉
Your deep dive treatment wouldn't be wasted on the bay of pigs event. The videos that exist now just read the Wikipedia pages' sources.
Thanks, good idea!
Sean every time I get a notification for a new video of yours I get so excited. You’re hands down the best historical channel I’ve ever watched. Please keep blessing us with your videos!
My favorite history channel on TH-cam. It's not even close, and I mean that! Thank you for making these. I turn off my adblocker for you lol
Thanks so much!
This video was recommended to me out of the blue, and I loved it! Looking forward to your past and future content.
Welcome aboard!
To leave a more serious comment: Great video. I really enjoy your approach to history, and especially how you connect everything. I think many of us often forget the extent of Nixon's crimes and negative impact on the nation, so it is always good to have a reminder.
I had the privilege of meeting President Nixon in 1982. I was 7 years old. My parents took me to the Ringling Brothers circus in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. Richard Nixon lived in northern New Jersey at the time and was also at the circus that day with his family. During intermission a crowd began around him to get his autograph. He only took a few and had stopped by the time my parents sent me up to meet him. He noticed me straggling around and looked at me compassionately and asked me if I knew who he was. I said “no, but my Mommy and Daddy” do. He reached out to me and took my circus program and signed it. I didn’t realize at that time what a generous gesture it was for him to have done that. Whatever his legacy is with most people, or whatever his politics or crimes were, he was very kind to me as a child. His legacy with me personally is very good. It goes to show there is more to a human being and their personhood than what they go down in history for. Some very bad people go down in history as heroes, and some very kind people go down in history as crooks. Aren’t we all heroes during certain times in our lives, and crooks at other times?
I appreciate your story and opinions of him. While the Watergate scandal exposed some serious character flaws in the man, I personally think its inarguable that he was an effective President aside from the scandal.
Your story is lovely. And it’s an example of something I say often. Life isn’t black and white. It’s grey.
Very few people are a totally bad or totally good. They may have done bad things or truly good things.
Don’t get me wrong I understand that there are evil people out there. But the vast majority are just human beings that are fallible.
can’t believe this video killed kissinger
No no, the cease fire in Gaza did it.
@@bwweaver78lol wow
I actually kayaked on the Potomac with my aunt over half my lifetime ago, I remember her pointing out the Watergate complex, and I believe we briefly landed on Roosevelt island for a bathroom stop.
anytime you drop a new video I actually get really hyped I like the way you tell history
Im blown away at how prolific you are. These videos are all chock full of incredibly valuable context and details, i dont know how you produce them at such a breathtaking pace
Found your channel while traveling for Thanksgiving and realizing it was the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
This channel has become one of my favorite channels now. Just great information and adore the long form videos!
I can’t thank you enough for your work Sean! I’m able to handle my son’s history questions with much more context.
Love the Robert Evans shoutout! Been listening to the both of you a lot this past year:)
discovered this channel a few weeks ago and i love it. keep up the amazing work
One of the most intriguing aspects of the case, usually sloughed over or not mentioned at all, was the plane crash in Chicago which killed E. Howard Hunt's wife, whose name was Dorothy, I believe. Mrs Hunt's suitcase was loaded with a lot of cash, and, of course, the prime speculation has always been that the cash was hush money.
Who else is here on the day of Henry Kissinger’s death?
His "I'm not a crook" speech happened at a Walt Disney resort in Orlando
During that time - before the tapes went public - some journalist said that debate over Nixon’s innocence was similar to asking whether the madam of a brothel is a virgin. His indisputable complicity is shocking, yeah, at the “I am not a crook” stage he was up to his ears in it even without any proof. And it was a REALLY good line!
babe wake up, sean munger just uploaded a 2 hour long video about watergate
I didn't know how much I needed this channel. Thanks so much for the time and effort we all appreciate it you have a way of talking that's really easy to learn from
I always look forward to your videos! Your way of approaching historical events and people is uniquely interesting, and I always feel like I learn so much
Watergate is one of my favorite historical subjects. I was born exactly two months minus one day before the break in & if you let my mom tell it my first words were “Tricky Dick” & she knew then I would be into politics. As someone who now works in DC this is a very interesting take on the subject.
Sean, love the format and the content you've been choosing to cover. Usually I might look away from a 2 hour video on history to try to find something easier to consume but your videos are always an immediate press when they pop up and it's usually an exciting moment when I see a new one. Thanks!
Ah, but perhaps the only reason Oswald acted alone is because his co-conspirator had stopped into Schiller's Delicatessen for a sandwich and was thus late for his part of his plan :P
Your videos are always top-tier, cheers! Keep it up, its fascinating stuff.
I love these videos!!! I am a history student so logically my time off would be spent consuming content about literally anything else, but I can’t help it! These are so good
This is absolutely my favorite history channel. Keep up the great work!
Excellent video Dr. Munger. I notice you attended law school at my undergraduate alma mater Tulane. You should know that your video was so engrossing that it has distracted me from my own upcoming law school exams here at Cornell. Thank you for the great distraction, and you can consider me a faithful subscriber from now on.
Another fantastic video. I find it insane you've been able to make these incredibly sourced and in depth videos so quickly all of which have been brilliant. Thanks again.
Whoa!! Didnt expect the behind the bastards and sean munger crossover heheh, it would be awesome if they had you as a guest
This is a cool concept. I wish they would have had geographic and environmental history when I got my undergrad.
This man does not miss I tell you!
I love these "where it happened" videos of yours! Keep them coming.
🦀🦀🦀 KISSINGER IS DEAD 🦀🦀🦀
Sean, it never ceases to amaze me how quick you get these long videos out bravo!
Kissenger finally kicked the bucket 😅😅😅
Thanks so much for the time stamps, I’m working rn and I keep getting distracted on parts but great vid keep them up
Another fantastic doc. You continue to deliver an overlay of histories that leaves me far more knowledgable regarding the actual context of why, what and what-after actually happened.
I just watched a 3 hour video of yours and well, here I am 😂 totally sober just learning past midnight because I want to. Thanks🎉
My uncle is a history teacher at a middle school and I sent him your video on the monarchs I just watched. Mad respect❤
I absolutely love these geography videos! Keep them coming if you can, you're great Sean!
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!!! TURN IT UP!!!
You did an amazing job connecting all of these angles. I'm very interested in your next journey into the past. History continues to weave in and out in and out...
The thoroughness is very impressive. It's hard to unpack such complicated stories but you seem to do it with ease. It's important to get some context around the story and you do well in that regard as well. Amazing video and hopefully there are many more to come in the future.
I can't wait for the next video! Sean, you are the only documentarians that I can listen to at full attention for hours on end. I've been toying with the idea of doing aviation history videos and the stories behind their production, and your style of video is just amazing in how you can place thkngs in chapters, and even stop yourself from going off on tangents that should be saved for another time.
I think i video going over the early days of the atomic energy comission, the spy plane program, and the beginning of the groom lake facility would be great if told by someone like you! It's a very interesting topic, and having talked with many of the ex SR-71 pilots, mechanics, and engineers i found some cool stpries ranging from a civilian emergency landing at Area 51 to a scientist with an X-15 parked in his driveway!
Back to the point, thank you for being so comprehensive and concise. You are one of my favorite people on this site, and every chance i get i refer you to my friends. I hope you're doing well!
so happy you're covering this event :)
Great stuff as always Sean, thanks!
My man! Thank you. Can't wait to watch this 10 times and learn something new each time. You were researching when I asked for this.. Can't wait to see what you share in 2024!
You never disappoint! Thus far, I've thoroughly enjoyed every podcast you've done (that I've watched). Extremely informative, insightful and entertaining...... THANKS! 😊
Your channel is great. I love these long form videos. You are able to narrativize while still sticking to facts and presenting evidence. Your videos have that “my favorite collage professor” lecture vibe.
Sean, this is the first of your videos that I have watched. I'm definitely going to look for another one. Thanks!
You’re videos are incredibly insightful and all out entertaining for all of us history nerds out here. Many thanks!
Congrats on the sponsor! I want Munger Merch next, t-shirt or maybe a mug. Your videos are fantastic, thank you so very much.
I spent so much of my life watching these sorts of videos, and honestly the detail, presentation, quality and frequency of your videos is top notch. I can't wait to watch this one, and see what's next, would you consider doing a video on OJ, I felt as if ti was hinted in the Manson video 😅.
i know i commented when the video was first posted but i keep coming back to it and am compelled to leave a second comment. as a history major and hopeful to become a professor the way you make content and deliver information is the way i hope to become after i graduate. i really aspire to become like you as an educator and history lover. i hope you continue to do this as long as you enjoy it which hopefully will be awhile! your videos keep me motivated to keep working towards my goals to get into grad school so i hope this reaches you well and i am excited to see what else you can create!
been here since 4,000 subs. so happy you’re getting the recognition you deserve. your channel (and a few others) helped me realize i want to go to school for history! i want to work in the antiques industry (not sure what i want to specialize in yet), which is basically history through objects instead of history through geography :D
Please share what other history channels you enjoy! And good luck in your journey with History! ^_^
Fantastic video once again, sir! I’m such a big fan.
Ugh, why couldn't they have ensured their recordings of their illegal actions were of better quality? I mean, seriously.
Nixon: "Bob, could you speak into the flower pot please?"
The fact that you churn 2-3h of college class-level YT videos at the rate of one-per-month is a breath of fresh air in this era of TikTok instant dopamine rush Internet. Do you think you will be available on podcast platforms one day? I hate sharing all this quality time with some stupid airline commercial every five seconds. Thank you.
A listener from France
I LOVE history through geography
LOVE LOVE LOVE FINNALLY SOMEONE with the brains and voice is making videos on it
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Thanks so much! 🙏
As soon as I heard you mention Liddy's obsession with Hitler, I wondered if you'd listened to the "Behind the Bastards" episodes about him. It's a great podcast, and the Liddy series is very good. If you haven't listened to "BtB's" Kissinger series, you should. All six episodes are worth it.
Love your videos. Keep up the great work!
Amazing video !! I feel like I have stumbled upon a hidden gem of a channel and I can't believe you don't have more subscribers. Definitely going to do a deep dive on your videos now, thank you for this !!
Another great video Sean! Thank you!
It seems like your channel is really starting to gain momentum, very well deserved. I wouldn't be surprised if you eclipse 100k subs within a 2-3 months.
Just discovered your channel, great content!
2 plus hours nice I know how I'll be spending my afternoon
I really like the way you do these histories you do. geographically. It is the way I think about events. So it brings the events into better focus.
I’m a fan.
Excellent video I'm sure (I have only just begun watching it) but I'm happy to see the channel is taking off, very well deserved.
Absolutely Brilliant presentation. What a wonderful way to pull truly important history into a complete perspective. I hope this can be preserved for all time. Thank you for your insightful research.
This style of video is so good! Entertaining and super educational keep up the great work!
Really fascinating way to contextualize both the preceding history as well as the event itself. Thanks!
I stumbled upon your channel for the first time ever a few days back and have been binge watching ever since. Amazing, engaging content, thank you for making such videos!
Always a good day when I see a new Munger video pop up. Excellent as always sir!
Sharing this right away, your videos are awesome 👌
And may I also suggest in the future a "Geographic History of 9/11" if you haven't thought of it yet.
I am seriously considering exactly that.
Very smart and detailed Storytelling of that Era. Perfectly communicated and i guess, you took hell lot of a time for that. Great Job! PS: Sean, i like your T-Shirt. Never bought one in Wacken, but i keep my Arm Band in a cosy place from 2003. :)
2003 was my favorite Wacken!
Excellent video, Mr. Munger!!!!! One of your best!
allways a pleasure to watch your videos, great job with both content and paceing
Really enjoyed this one. I know it wouldn't fit the content of this channel very well, but I would be really interested in a video outlining your research methods, thought process, and more around these projects if you have an interest in making it.
Absolutely love your videos; I don't remember how i found your channel but im glad i did. I especially love your videos talking about ships and things like that
I hope 2024 brings you a lot more subscribers! Your videos are great to listen to while I’m cross stitching, cleaning house, eating lunch, etc. Thank you for taking the time to make these deep dives for the rest of us to enjoy!!!
Thank you so much!
I have really enjoyed your history videos since finding your channel earlier in the Autumn. Your innovative approach in presenting the subject is unique and fascinating, and really allows the listener to look at old and worn stories in an entirely new light, from entirely new angles. I lived through the Watergate scandal, and I would have never thought that anyone could make it interesting to me again, but you have done so. As a reader of history, for the pure pleasure of doing so, of over a half century standing, I take my hat off to you Sir. Why at the very start I learned something new. The Watergate burgurlers were arrested by cops dresses as hippies? I find that somehow appropreate and oddly satisfying.
Another great one Sean, you're probably my favorite history channel right now. Hoping you continue to find success!