Ep. 32: A Lid on Liddy

G.  Gordon Liddy, a lawyer, former FBI agent and chief
operative in the White House Plumbers unit at the time, was a
central focus for Watergate activity, even though he is
correctly, and admittedly, seen as a dupe.  But he was an
honest man, incapable of insincerity, such that his 1980 memoir,
Will, is know to be the most candid and honest of the Watergate
confessionals. Liddy, stoutly refusing to seem a “rat,” said
nothing about the scandal until this book, and therefore it was
not until 1980 that the public could learn many behind-the-scenes
facts, implications of which required detailed Watergate
knowledge to understand. These implications were, properly
presented, explosive. The perceived expert on all things
Watergate, Bob Woodward, did a full book review, the public’s
last best chance to truly understand Watergate. Would this famed
reporter truthfully inform the world of these earthshaking facts,
and more importantly, explain to the uninformed why these facts
are so significant?  As news was proceeding to become
history, would Woodward and the Washington Post be an aid to
truthful history or would they put in historical concrete a false
narrative for generations to consume? Tune in to this most
enlightening evidence of how our democracy is dying in
darkness.

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