MSS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Saturday Night Massacre, Watergate Scandal, Bernard Barker
14 Dec 2016
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In both fueling nixon"s early career and then destroying him later members of the press abandoned professed standards of objectivity. And nixon"s innate wariness, in turn, evolved into arrant hatred. In the end, this dysfunctional relationship helped fuel a national tragedy. It put the country on the road to watergate. Nixon"s earliest experience with the press was corrupting: the lesson he took from his early campaigns for c ongress was that the game was rigged. S aturday night massacre, fired one member from the staff and accepted the resignation of 2 other staff members. Documentary video: documentary 2014 watergate: 37mins -44 mins of what we watched in class, J ames mcc ord s ecurity c hief , tried to lead the group in (the second time), The president wasn"t in the area when it happened. The c ubans worked on the documents.
