Francis Teaches Local Idiot About Watergate

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00:00Hi, Dana.

00:00What's up, brother?

00:01You've heard of Deflategate.

00:04Yeah.

00:04What's another gate?

00:06Onion Ring Gate.

00:07Or you said that they won't let you have onion rings outside.

00:10Yeah.

00:10Give me one more famous gate.

00:11Spy Gate.

00:12Spy Gate.

00:13Oh, uh, Watergate.

00:14There you go.

00:15Do you know anything about Watergate?

00:17Nixon.

00:171972, Nixon's re-election campaign.

00:20He's facing off against Democratic candidate George McGovern.

00:25Okay.

00:25Whom he beat in the election, winning 60% of the popular vote, which is the largest

00:33margin of victory by a presidential candidate in history.

00:36The reason that the Watergate scandal happened is because Nixon and his people

00:42were so worried about what the Democrats were cooking up and were so suspicious

00:48that they wanted to break into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee,

00:54which were in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C.

00:57to figure out what's their plan.

00:59Sounds stealthy.

01:00And those guys were caught.

01:03So they're not stealthy.

01:05They're not as good as ninjas as we thought they were.

01:07It was traced back to the Nixon administration,

01:12at which point he was, I think, subpoenaed to release tapes.

01:17He had voice-activated tapes in the Oval Office.

01:20And he had these tapes and he refused to hand them over in the investigation.

01:25And then this led to a constitutional crisis that had to deal with,

01:29is the president above the law?

01:33He's the only president in history to resign.

01:35Wow.

01:35Do you know who his successor was?

01:37George H. Dubb.

01:38No.

01:39Taft.

01:40I'll give you a hint.

01:41Played football at Michigan.

01:42Theodore.

01:43Or was it?

01:43No, that's the 40s.

01:46Fuck.

01:47I don't know.

01:48It's also not the 40s.

01:50Gerald Ford.

01:51Yeah, no.

01:51Was Nixon's vice president.

01:53Would have known that.

01:54And one of Ford's first acts as president was to pardon Nixon.

01:59Oh, so he came back?

02:00The nation needs to heal.

02:01We need to move on from this black eye.

02:04Respect, Gerald.

02:05Yeah, Gerald Ford.

02:06He sounds like a fullback.

02:07Ford played center and linebacker.

02:10Of course he did.

02:11He's the guy that he's the...

02:13Uh-huh.

02:13You know?

02:18There was a great movie made about the Watergate scandal that followed the investigative reporting

02:24on it.

02:25Was it called Watergate?

02:26It's called All the President's Men.

02:28It should have just been called Watergate.

02:30Out of that movie and out of that scandal, there was a famous character revealed.

02:35Hmm.

02:36Deep Throat.

02:37Yeah.

02:38You ever heard of this?

02:39Operation Deep Throat.

02:41Operation Deep Throat, boys.

02:43What's that?

02:44It's just, I don't know.

02:46It's got a funny name, though.

02:47Oh, you just threw that on there.

02:49I don't think it was called Operation Deep Throat.

02:50Oh, it was Operation Deep.

02:51The two journalists that were assigned to this story were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

02:57They would meet with this guy, Deep Throat, in a parking garage.

03:03Depicted in the movie.

03:04You should watch this movie.

03:05It couldn't do anything better?

03:07I don't know exactly why they called the informant Deep Throat.

03:10Couldn't it have been, like, balls?

03:12Shaft?

03:13That's a different movie.

03:14In 2003, the identity of Deep Throat was finally revealed.

03:19Wow.

03:19As Mark Phelp, who was the associate director of the FBI.

03:23Okay.

03:23He famously said, follow the money.

03:26And it was by tracing the money that they were able to connect it to the Nixon administration.

03:31Watergate.

03:31It changed Nixon's legacy.

03:34Try saying it with a Philly accent.

03:36Watergate?

03:36Yeah.

03:38That's good.

03:39Watergate.

03:40It's fun.

03:40Water.

03:42Hey, they giving me water?

03:44My buddy always used to say that in school.

03:47Really?

03:47Yeah, Flip.

03:48Shout out Flip.

03:49That's the one that found me face down in a marsh.

03:53In a marsh?

03:54Yeah.

03:54Why were you in the marsh?

03:55Who knows?

03:56Behind mariachis.

03:57We all went out.

03:58I had two drinks.

03:59Next thing I know, I woke up in a marsh.

04:01Holy smokes.

04:02Yeah, I think I got roofies.

04:04Or I just got really fucked up.

04:06From two drinks?

04:07Well, you know, two drinks is more like 12.

04:12He dominated the election, so he didn't even need to do this.

04:15And he did it anyway.

04:16He must feel like a big stupid idiot after all that.

04:19I bet he does.

04:20He was welcomed back into the White House by subsequent presidents

04:24who would lean on him for foreign policy advice.

04:27He was a genie.

04:28He was good on China.

04:29He had a very good handle on China.

04:31Yeah, rubbed the lamp.

04:33China, Russia.

04:34Rubbed the lamp, out comes Nixon.

04:36Yeah.

04:36I don't know what I'm talking about.

04:38I don't either.

04:39You should watch the movie All the Presidents, man.

04:41I would watch it.

04:42You know, one time I was like,

04:43I'm gonna watch every movie on IMDB's top list.

04:46That was up there.

04:47I thought that'll be up there.

04:48But I did watch Schindler's List.

04:50Wow, good for you.

04:51And then I got to Lord of the Rings.

04:53I'm like, fuck this shit.

04:54I quit.

04:55It seems to be understood that he was excellent on foreign policy.

04:58He was very smart.

04:59Yeah.

04:59He understood decorum.

05:01Can you help me out with that one?

05:02His bedside manner.

05:04The way he presented himself.

05:06On his bed?

05:06His ability to connect with people, his sense of behavior.

05:11That's Watergate in a nutshell.

05:14I feel like I would have done pretty bad in the 70s.

05:17Why?

05:17Like, those fucking, those are staring me in the face, those drinks.

05:22And all I want to do is drink them.

05:24Don't drink them.

05:25I'm not gonna.

05:26But I feel like if I was in the 70s and I saw a bunch of fucking acid,

05:30I'd be like, I'm gonna eat all of it.

05:33Because you're hungry.

05:35That's Watergate.

05:36Okay.

05:36Watch all the president's men.

05:38Yes, sir.

05:39Try to stay away from Gates.

05:40And LSD.

05:42Yeah.

05:42All right.

05:43Good luck, Dan and Peter.

05:44Thanks, Franny.

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