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Francis Teaches Local Idiot About Watergate
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10/10/2024
Dana B | Francis Tutors Dana Beers
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00:00
Hi, Dana.
00:00
What's up, brother?
00:01
You've heard of Deflategate.
00:04
Yeah.
00:04
What's another gate?
00:06
Onion Ring Gate.
00:07
Or you said that they won't let you have onion rings outside.
00:10
Yeah.
00:10
Give me one more famous gate.
00:11
Spy Gate.
00:12
Spy Gate.
00:13
Oh, uh, Watergate.
00:14
There you go.
00:15
Do you know anything about Watergate?
00:17
Nixon.
00:17
1972, Nixon's re-election campaign.
00:20
He's facing off against Democratic candidate George McGovern.
00:25
Okay.
00:25
Whom he beat in the election, winning 60% of the popular vote, which is the largest
00:33
margin of victory by a presidential candidate in history.
00:36
The reason that the Watergate scandal happened is because Nixon and his people
00:42
were so worried about what the Democrats were cooking up and were so suspicious
00:48
that they wanted to break into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee,
00:54
which were in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C.
00:57
to figure out what's their plan.
00:59
Sounds stealthy.
01:00
And those guys were caught.
01:03
So they're not stealthy.
01:05
They're not as good as ninjas as we thought they were.
01:07
It was traced back to the Nixon administration,
01:12
at which point he was, I think, subpoenaed to release tapes.
01:17
He had voice-activated tapes in the Oval Office.
01:20
And he had these tapes and he refused to hand them over in the investigation.
01:25
And then this led to a constitutional crisis that had to deal with,
01:29
is the president above the law?
01:33
He's the only president in history to resign.
01:35
Wow.
01:35
Do you know who his successor was?
01:37
George H. Dubb.
01:38
No.
01:39
Taft.
01:40
I'll give you a hint.
01:41
Played football at Michigan.
01:42
Theodore.
01:43
Or was it?
01:43
No, that's the 40s.
01:46
Fuck.
01:47
I don't know.
01:48
It's also not the 40s.
01:50
Gerald Ford.
01:51
Yeah, no.
01:51
Was Nixon's vice president.
01:53
Would have known that.
01:54
And one of Ford's first acts as president was to pardon Nixon.
01:59
Oh, so he came back?
02:00
The nation needs to heal.
02:01
We need to move on from this black eye.
02:04
Respect, Gerald.
02:05
Yeah, Gerald Ford.
02:06
He sounds like a fullback.
02:07
Ford played center and linebacker.
02:10
Of course he did.
02:11
He's the guy that he's the...
02:13
Uh-huh.
02:13
You know?
02:18
There was a great movie made about the Watergate scandal that followed the investigative reporting
02:24
on it.
02:25
Was it called Watergate?
02:26
It's called All the President's Men.
02:28
It should have just been called Watergate.
02:30
Out of that movie and out of that scandal, there was a famous character revealed.
02:35
Hmm.
02:36
Deep Throat.
02:37
Yeah.
02:38
You ever heard of this?
02:39
Operation Deep Throat.
02:41
Operation Deep Throat, boys.
02:43
What's that?
02:44
It's just, I don't know.
02:46
It's got a funny name, though.
02:47
Oh, you just threw that on there.
02:49
I don't think it was called Operation Deep Throat.
02:50
Oh, it was Operation Deep.
02:51
The two journalists that were assigned to this story were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
02:57
They would meet with this guy, Deep Throat, in a parking garage.
03:03
Depicted in the movie.
03:04
You should watch this movie.
03:05
It couldn't do anything better?
03:07
I don't know exactly why they called the informant Deep Throat.
03:10
Couldn't it have been, like, balls?
03:12
Shaft?
03:13
That's a different movie.
03:14
In 2003, the identity of Deep Throat was finally revealed.
03:19
Wow.
03:19
As Mark Phelp, who was the associate director of the FBI.
03:23
Okay.
03:23
He famously said, follow the money.
03:26
And it was by tracing the money that they were able to connect it to the Nixon administration.
03:31
Watergate.
03:31
It changed Nixon's legacy.
03:34
Try saying it with a Philly accent.
03:36
Watergate?
03:36
Yeah.
03:38
That's good.
03:39
Watergate.
03:40
It's fun.
03:40
Water.
03:42
Hey, they giving me water?
03:44
My buddy always used to say that in school.
03:47
Really?
03:47
Yeah, Flip.
03:48
Shout out Flip.
03:49
That's the one that found me face down in a marsh.
03:53
In a marsh?
03:54
Yeah.
03:54
Why were you in the marsh?
03:55
Who knows?
03:56
Behind mariachis.
03:57
We all went out.
03:58
I had two drinks.
03:59
Next thing I know, I woke up in a marsh.
04:01
Holy smokes.
04:02
Yeah, I think I got roofies.
04:04
Or I just got really fucked up.
04:06
From two drinks?
04:07
Well, you know, two drinks is more like 12.
04:12
He dominated the election, so he didn't even need to do this.
04:15
And he did it anyway.
04:16
He must feel like a big stupid idiot after all that.
04:19
I bet he does.
04:20
He was welcomed back into the White House by subsequent presidents
04:24
who would lean on him for foreign policy advice.
04:27
He was a genie.
04:28
He was good on China.
04:29
He had a very good handle on China.
04:31
Yeah, rubbed the lamp.
04:33
China, Russia.
04:34
Rubbed the lamp, out comes Nixon.
04:36
Yeah.
04:36
I don't know what I'm talking about.
04:38
I don't either.
04:39
You should watch the movie All the Presidents, man.
04:41
I would watch it.
04:42
You know, one time I was like,
04:43
I'm gonna watch every movie on IMDB's top list.
04:46
That was up there.
04:47
I thought that'll be up there.
04:48
But I did watch Schindler's List.
04:50
Wow, good for you.
04:51
And then I got to Lord of the Rings.
04:53
I'm like, fuck this shit.
04:54
I quit.
04:55
It seems to be understood that he was excellent on foreign policy.
04:58
He was very smart.
04:59
Yeah.
04:59
He understood decorum.
05:01
Can you help me out with that one?
05:02
His bedside manner.
05:04
The way he presented himself.
05:06
On his bed?
05:06
His ability to connect with people, his sense of behavior.
05:11
That's Watergate in a nutshell.
05:14
I feel like I would have done pretty bad in the 70s.
05:17
Why?
05:17
Like, those fucking, those are staring me in the face, those drinks.
05:22
And all I want to do is drink them.
05:24
Don't drink them.
05:25
I'm not gonna.
05:26
But I feel like if I was in the 70s and I saw a bunch of fucking acid,
05:30
I'd be like, I'm gonna eat all of it.
05:33
Because you're hungry.
05:35
That's Watergate.
05:36
Okay.
05:36
Watch all the president's men.
05:38
Yes, sir.
05:39
Try to stay away from Gates.
05:40
And LSD.
05:42
Yeah.
05:42
All right.
05:43
Good luck, Dan and Peter.
05:44
Thanks, Franny.
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