Nick Bryant
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The more and more I read it about Watergate, the more I wanted to write a book.
But I wanted to write a simple book.
I wanted to make Watergate as simple as possible.
So it could be Watergate for dummies.
But it's still very complex.
Watergate is a conspiracy within a conspiracy.
I'll kind of explain that later.
But Watergate is so complex.
There's so much misdirection going on.
And the media...
The media's portrayal of Watergate is magnanimous.
With Watergate, okay, so Nixon got elected in 68.
And he'd been a hawk.
He'd been really an anti-communist hawk.
He was in the House on American activities, going after people.
And he ran for president in 60, and he got beat by JFK.
And then he ran for California governor in 62, and he got beat.
And then he moved to New York and thought he was done with politics.
And he was pretty acerbic.
When he got beat for governor, he said some pretty nasty things about the media.