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I so love how The Watergate Hotel embraced it's role in U.S. history. Thank you for showing this! I do believe that Elvis Presley stayed at The Watergate Hotel when he stayed in Washington, D.C. when he met Richard Nixon at the Whitehouse.
In its day, the Watergate was THE place to stay for everyone who was anyone in Hollywood. However, its construction was VERY controversial. A posh Georgtonian of the era said, "...it's like inviting a stripper to your grandmother's funeral..."
I know this history so well, and I owe that to my middle school Social Studies teacher. The trials were going on at the time and she offered us extra credit for watching and listening to the news. She gave us word searches, crossword puzzles and fill in the blanks and we got the answers from watching the news on TV and reading the newspaper. I don't think I had ever read the newspaper before, but I wanted that extra credit. Any way, this is where my love for history began. I was watching history in the making and it was all so intriguing. Thanks for the video! Loved every minute of it.
Just wanted to say KUDOS for a fine commentary on the Scandal Room at the Watergate Hotel. Prior to covid, I was the Bell Captain/head doorman at the Watergate, and I wrote the tour for the Scandal Room back in 2017. In the past, whenever anyone stayed in the room, a private tour with me was included. Since writing the tour, I've had the honor of presenting the room to Prime Ministers, Ambassadors, Generals and Admirals of NATO, and celebs. But perhaps my greatest honor and privilege was, over time, meeting some of the very characters that participated in the events of that infamous night in our history and the subsequent trial -- even having become friends with the arresting officers and the last man to leave the DNC office on the night of the break-in. The highlight of my tours, however, had to be when one of the Watergate prosecutors endorsed my tour on her Twitter account. Ms. Jill Wine-Banks was the only female on the prosecution team. She had come to The Watergate to launch her book tour. I gave her and her entourage a tour of the room and was able to share a question / answer with her for about an hour afterward. Fascinating woman! I'm glad to hear you intend to come back --- perhaps next time I can give you the tour and share some extra anecdotes not usually found in the history books.
I was 10 years old and spending the summer with my aunt. She was glued to the TV everyday during the trials. My cousin and I spent the summer playing in the creek behind her house. We were oblivious to the brevity of the moment.
Yes, I learned more about what actually transpired in the scandal from this video than I did in either high school or university. I swear you can learn more from You Tube than you can from a high school or college classroom these days.
I was 24 years old when this happened, one of the biggest black eyes to the USA. Lowest ones on the totem pole took the fall for this, higher ranking got little or nothing. Glad they are able to laugh about it now, the hotel is amazing. Thank you
I totally appreciated this video. I live not far from Washington DC, in Towson Maryland. I am a huge follower of the history of the Watergate scandal. I have been so fortunate to meet some of the few people that were involved and I have signed books by G Gordon Liddy and Richard Nixon. In the situation with Richard Nixon, I have a signed copy of his book RN. It’s a limited edition leather bound copy limited to 1500. I had the fortune of meeting G Gordon Liddy in the federal courthouse in Baltimore Maryland about 20 years ago. I also had the Fortuna meeting John Dean at that point as well as a few other folks that were involved in the water gate scandal. I have a great letter that she Gordon Liddy wrote to me because I was providing his food service and his case came to an end very quickly. What a great guy. Your video really made my day. I know it’s not a documentary but it shows how much you love the history of the presidency.
And you've done it again! Never fail to impress with your spoken commentary and filming. I was a spotty faced 11 year old with a strange liking for news bulletins. Here in the UK we got pretty much everything from the BBC, (Military family, - wouldn't think of any other source), and I remember constantly baffling my mother with questions she couldn't answer about Mr Nixon and the goings on in America as the nightly news gave us all the latest info. I remember watching the resignation speech live as well. Thanks for a little snatch of my childhood coming back and a truly fascinating upload.
How cool was that?! Thanks for bringing us along to a pretty cool journey through our history, no matter how uncomfortable it might be sometimes. Wild how what happened in that room tipped over all the Dominoes.
I luv DC. Visited Oct 2019 from UK. So much to see there. A very underrated city. Georgetown one of my Favourite places with the Exorcist Steps and waterfront for lunch
That is so cool! I remember being glued to the TV during the Watergate hearings. I was all of fifteen or sixteen. It was all so fascinating! It's great that we can finally have a little fun with such heavy duty history.
Obviously it’s just an overpriced hotel room which is not even in the same building which housed the offices of the Democratic National Committee. Old newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, and other memorabilia can be found all over the place, such as on the internet, and set up in a hotel room. Not a big deal.
@@TheHistoryUnderground It wasn't a janitor, it was a security officer by the name of Frank Wills. He passed away on September 27, 2000 but his logbook showing where he wrote in the details of what he found is in the National Archives and can be found online here: catalog.archives.gov/id/304970
What a great video JD , thank you for making history come alive. I was nine years old and lived in the Maryland Suburbs when President Nixon resigned. An interesting little foot note , before the scandal congress had verbally agreed on a national health care bill that Nixon would have signed if Watergate had never happened. Today’s Republicans are not my fathers political party.
Hello there, The History Underground! I think I found your channel a few years ago, but just rediscovered it last night. And I have been binge-watching all the videos that interest me on your channel. I am a college student at San Diego State University studying to become a high school social science teacher, and the way in which you approach history is SO admirable and interesting. Your format for videos is VERY aesthetically pleasing and enjoyable. There is a good mix of commentary and visuals, which I think is incredibly important. I mainly wanted to comment on this video because this event in American history has been of interest to me since I went to the newly remodeled Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum (HIGHLY recommend if you have not been). My exploration has even lead me to read (off and on) a GREAT book by John W. Dean titled "The Nixon Defense". With all this in mind, ever since I learned that someone could stay a night at the Watergate Scandal Room, it has been on my bucket list to do so! Maybe during a summer break as a teacher (when I have money to do so), I will spend a night in the room. I find it EXTREMELY COOL that you got to stay a night! And thank you again for the AMAZING content you put in your videos, maybe if I am ever teaching American history and need some videos to show some historical places or items in museums that are made all the more educational by your EXTREMELY useful and enjoyable commentary, I will DEFINITELY use some of your videos! Thank you, The History Underground!
What an amazing experience you certainly hit a home run on this one. Hope you had a good evening and you didn't have any nightmares of Tricky Dicky. On my only visit to DC I stayed at the Hilton where Reagan was shot. Also have you seen the film Nixon with the amazing Anthony Hopkins it is a fascinating movie. Thanks once again JD.
@@TheHistoryUnderground She is one of several famous people who lived there. Senator Bob Dole still lives there, and the late Justice Ginsburg had a residence there. And one of the men who went to jail for the crime lived there, John Mitchell.
Our family took a road trip through the eastern United States in the summer of 1973. We spent a couple of days in Washington DC. My dad drove us by this place and said ,"There it is...Watergate". My sister and I were young, but knew that "Watergate" meant something pretty bad. And driving past the building seemed to my sister and me as if we were passing some prison or horrible place, because prison = bad, so that meant Watergate = bad. We were both actually scared! :) Silly now, of course, but we were young. I remember that we toured the White House and kept asking Dad if we were going to meet President Nixon! Now of course we didn't, but that would have been pretty mind blowing if it happened!
VVC&PDC WOW GREAT.The way you felt being in that room was how I felt visiting George Washington’s Mt. Vernon home. I still find it hard to believe when they told me his body was in the cement vault inside a cript.Please keep your stories coming.
I was in elementary school when watergate and the resignation occurred. When I was in high school I had no problem remembering which amendment of the constitution was the 25th and the details of it. Why because we learned all about it in regards to Agnew’s resignation , Ford’s appointment and Nixon’s resignation Became a lifelong US and presidential history buff as a result of my elementary teachers not being afraid to discuss Watergate and the events associated with it ,
I was 14 when Nixon resigned. We were in AZ on a family retreat. A bunch of us kids were outside playing and we came in loud as kids are. We were shushed as we came in. Nixon was on TV resigning.....I’ll never forget it! Up to then I hadn’t cared about politics....it was my start to caring deeply! We had one of those phones! Lol As always thanks for a great video! We love going to DC as well! Didn’t know one could stay there in that room! Goals!👊👊😎😎😎
I had known about this scandal but I am grateful for you summarizing it before showing everything. By the way, I am 40 and I never used records...lol. By the time I was old enough to want to listen to music (late 80s) cassettes were a thing. Side note: My daughter will be in 8th grade next year and they do a "east coast trip" every year for the 8th graders. They hit Boston, DC, Gettysburg. I am SO excited to chaperone that trip. My daughter, not so much... HAHA
I hope one day you'll be able to go to Ouradour-Sur-Glane in France, it is a very important places for us French and the Germans. You should make a video about this village and makes the anglophone world learn about the tragedy of this village.
♥️♥️♥️♥️ Wow! This was so cool. I had no idea that they kept a part of history so alive in this motel. Fascinating!! It’s funny I lived through that time of “The Watergate Scandal “ How shocked all of us were. To me , I would of taken this as a honor to stay on that room as long there’s no ghosts there😆. Seriously I really enjoyed this video but then again I love everyone that you do. ♥️♥️😊👍👍👍
Wow, that was cool to see. I was 14 years old when Watergate took place. Just had graduated from 8 th grade. I remember watching Nixon resign with my Dad on TV. My Dad helped explain to me what had happened. We both felt disappointed that day. Some memories just stay with you. Thank you for the video. Joyce🇺🇸. ARROW *🎱.
Boy you talk about a memory I was probably 7yo but remember hearing the breaking news on my parents car radio while living in Hawaii. Don't know why it has stuck with me for so long being a little kid at the time.
Important correction to your account of the break-in. It was discovered by a security officer named Frank Wills, not by a janitor. Wills was making rounds when he discovered and secured the taped door. When he checked the door later in the shift, the tape had been replaced. Wills called the police, and the rest is history. His performance was textbook-perfect, and it is being used to train officers in 2021.
“Yeah Sir, You Might Want To Send A Maintenance Man Over To That Office Across The Way. The Lights Are Off and They Must Be Looking For A Fusebox, cause them flashlights, they keeping me awake”
If you are ever in that part of the country again I highly recommend visiting Fort Necessity and Flight 93 National Memorial and Johnstown PA to learn about the great flood. Three sites, three subjects and three eras all about less than 2 hours from each other.
Interesting video. That happened the year I was born and growing up I can remember my parents and grandparents saying it's a shame about Watergate Nixon was a good president. Good stuff
Yep. Jack Kennedy took the virginity of a 19 year old intern and asked her to service Bobby and Dave Powers in the swimming pool. Slick Willy actually grabbed Kathleen Willy’s breast and engaged in explicit activity with another intern. All of that actually happened in the White House itself. In no moral universe is that behavior “consensual” when it involves an intern (and a housewife in the case of Willey) and the most powerful man in the free world. I realize I’m setting the bar low here, but Trump never came close to anything on that level *after* he came to Washington and, no, telling a crowd to assemble “peacefully and patriotically” before a two hour riot does not an insurrection make.
I have some of the tin campaign buttons from the Nixon campaign. They are small and say "Nixon now more than ever ". I always hung on to them even though I was young at the time. I remember this whole event right up to the resignation, Ford swearing in and the televised trial. Seared into my memory.
I was only four years old but my mom plopped me in front of the TV for anything political or historical that was going on. Explains my current interests.
I can remember watching the hearings in school. I think the teacher was more interesting in watching than providing an actual lesson. Who can forget the infamous tapes and the 18-1/2 minute gap. After this video, I hope they comp'd your room 😆.
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Can u go into the rooms on the 6th floor office area? Tours ?
When you heading to Gettysburg?
@@Odessa-y5p - Very soon 🙂
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I would like to talk to you a little about it if you don't mind🙂👍
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Just got back from Gettysburg a few weeks back.
The flashlights kept Forrest awake so he called the front desk and the rest is history.
Ha! 100% how it went down.
Tom Hanks shot that scene from the window in room 804 at the Watergate. You can rent that room as well.
@@TheHistoryUnderground Damn that Forrest Gump! ;) Always clueless about what he was getting in the way of! ;)
I so love how The Watergate Hotel embraced it's role in U.S. history. Thank you for showing this! I do believe that Elvis Presley stayed at The Watergate Hotel when he stayed in Washington, D.C. when he met Richard Nixon at the Whitehouse.
Yeah, I love how they've integrated that into their story. Pretty cool experience.
In its day, the Watergate was THE place to stay for everyone who was anyone in Hollywood. However, its construction was VERY controversial. A posh Georgtonian of the era said, "...it's like inviting a stripper to your grandmother's funeral..."
I know this history so well, and I owe that to my middle school Social Studies teacher. The trials were going on at the time and she offered us extra credit for watching and listening to the news. She gave us word searches, crossword puzzles and fill in the blanks and we got the answers from watching the news on TV and reading the newspaper. I don't think I had ever read the newspaper before, but I wanted that extra credit. Any way, this is where my love for history began. I was watching history in the making and it was all so intriguing. Thanks for the video! Loved every minute of it.
Awesome! Glad that your teacher had you do that.
On that card under "No need to break in" should also have "YOU'RE NOT A CROOOK!" there just for the hell of it😂!
Crazy year, 1972 the break-in took place, early fall Munich Olympics, but nothing compares to the silliness of these last 14 months.
Just wanted to say KUDOS for a fine commentary on the Scandal Room at the Watergate Hotel. Prior to covid, I was the Bell Captain/head doorman at the Watergate, and I wrote the tour for the Scandal Room back in 2017. In the past, whenever anyone stayed in the room, a private tour with me was included. Since writing the tour, I've had the honor of presenting the room to Prime Ministers, Ambassadors, Generals and Admirals of NATO, and celebs. But perhaps my greatest honor and privilege was, over time, meeting some of the very characters that participated in the events of that infamous night in our history and the subsequent trial -- even having become friends with the arresting officers and the last man to leave the DNC office on the night of the break-in. The highlight of my tours, however, had to be when one of the Watergate prosecutors endorsed my tour on her Twitter account. Ms. Jill Wine-Banks was the only female on the prosecution team. She had come to The Watergate to launch her book tour. I gave her and her entourage a tour of the room and was able to share a question / answer with her for about an hour afterward. Fascinating woman! I'm glad to hear you intend to come back --- perhaps next time I can give you the tour and share some extra anecdotes not usually found in the history books.
Oh wow! That is so cool! Thanks for sharing that!!!
I would like to see the office that was broken into. Great video. Thanks much.
One of those times when you don't want to leave your room, so you "resigned" yourself to staying in for the evening.
I was 10 years old and spending the summer with my aunt. She was glued to the TV everyday during the trials. My cousin and I spent the summer playing in the creek behind her house. We were oblivious to the brevity of the moment.
Quite the spectacle. I would imagine that the creek was more fun.
It wasn't really that brief. It went on for 26 months, from arrests to resignation. I bet the creek was far more interesting though ;)
I was a high school Freshman in ‘72. It was shocking that the President was resigning. Thanks for giving context at the beginning. Excellent video!
Thanks!
Yes, I learned more about what actually transpired in the scandal from this video than I did in either high school or university. I swear you can learn more from You Tube than you can from a high school or college classroom these days.
Haha, that's so awesome. Hotel really has a James Bond film feel to it. Great episode as always!
Thanks! It definitely had that vibe to it.
Very fitting video with G. Gordon Liddy's passing just the other day.
He was a fascinating character.
Well done J.D.
Thanks!
I was 24 years old when this happened, one of the biggest black eyes to the USA. Lowest ones on the totem pole took the fall for this, higher ranking got little or nothing. Glad they are able to laugh about it now, the hotel is amazing. Thank you
Glad that you enjoyed it!
I totally appreciated this video. I live not far from Washington DC, in Towson Maryland. I am a huge follower of the history of the Watergate scandal. I have been so fortunate to meet some of the few people that were involved and I have signed books by G Gordon Liddy and Richard Nixon. In the situation with Richard Nixon, I have a signed copy of his book RN. It’s a limited edition leather bound copy limited to 1500. I had the fortune of meeting G Gordon Liddy in the federal courthouse in Baltimore Maryland about 20 years ago. I also had the Fortuna meeting John Dean at that point as well as a few other folks that were involved in the water gate scandal. I have a great letter that she Gordon Liddy wrote to me because I was providing his food service and his case came to an end very quickly. What a great guy. Your video really made my day. I know it’s not a documentary but it shows how much you love the history of the presidency.
To quote you as you stood out on the Watergate balcony: "Golly!" This really was something special!! 😃
I thought forest gump was responsible for uncovering the watergate scandal...lol pretty neat room..love the channel I am a huge American history fan
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I remember watching all this scandal. I was a teenager then. Enjoyed watching this.
Thanks! Pretty interesting to stand in that place where it all unraveled.
I was 6 yrs old and I'm completely amazed at what I actually remember, apparently I watched way to much television at a very young age...😉
And you've done it again! Never fail to impress with your spoken commentary and filming. I was a spotty faced 11 year old with a strange liking for news bulletins. Here in the UK we got pretty much everything from the BBC, (Military family, - wouldn't think of any other source), and I remember constantly baffling my mother with questions she couldn't answer about Mr Nixon and the goings on in America as the nightly news gave us all the latest info. I remember watching the resignation speech live as well. Thanks for a little snatch of my childhood coming back and a truly fascinating upload.
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You didn't spring for the drinks with arresting officers package? 😉
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How cool was that?! Thanks for bringing us along to a pretty cool journey through our history, no matter how uncomfortable it might be sometimes. Wild how what happened in that room tipped over all the Dominoes.
what amazes me is that even with all these posters on the wall the burglars werent spooked when they used the room!
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I luv DC. Visited Oct 2019 from UK. So much to see there. A very underrated city. Georgetown one of my Favourite places with the Exorcist Steps and waterfront for lunch
Agreed. Love it there.
Thank you for all that you do sir.
So nice of you! Thanks!
That is so cool! I remember being glued to the TV during the Watergate hearings. I was all of fifteen or sixteen. It was all so fascinating! It's great that we can finally have a little fun with such heavy duty history.
Yeah, I would imagine that it wasn't so fun at the time. Definitely an interesting story.
Dang - I had no idea you could stay in that room. Fascinating!
Pretty cool experience
Obviously it’s just an overpriced hotel room which is not even in the same building which housed the offices of the Democratic National Committee. Old newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, and other memorabilia can be found all over the place, such as on the internet, and set up in a hotel room. Not a big deal.
Too cool! I wonder whatever happen the the janitor that found the taped door lock?🤔
Good question!
@@TheHistoryUnderground It wasn't a janitor, it was a security officer by the name of Frank Wills. He passed away on September 27, 2000 but his logbook showing where he wrote in the details of what he found is in the National Archives and can be found online here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/304970
Wonderful presentation and great information 😊
Thanks! I was excited to share this one with everyone.
It is pretty riveting when you visit historic places. Great video. Keep up the great work. Always enjoy watching.
Thanks 👍
I love your genuine joy and excitement! Nice editing too!
What an amazing place! It's an unsung museum. Thanks for this, JD
What a great video JD , thank you for making history come alive. I was nine years old and lived in the Maryland Suburbs when President Nixon resigned.
An interesting little foot note , before the scandal congress had verbally agreed on a national health care bill that Nixon would have signed if Watergate had never happened. Today’s Republicans are not my fathers political party.
Hello there, The History Underground!
I think I found your channel a few years ago, but just rediscovered it last night. And I have been binge-watching all the videos that interest me on your channel.
I am a college student at San Diego State University studying to become a high school social science teacher, and the way in which you approach history is SO admirable and interesting. Your format for videos is VERY aesthetically pleasing and enjoyable. There is a good mix of commentary and visuals, which I think is incredibly important.
I mainly wanted to comment on this video because this event in American history has been of interest to me since I went to the newly remodeled Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum (HIGHLY recommend if you have not been). My exploration has even lead me to read (off and on) a GREAT book by John W. Dean titled "The Nixon Defense".
With all this in mind, ever since I learned that someone could stay a night at the Watergate Scandal Room, it has been on my bucket list to do so! Maybe during a summer break as a teacher (when I have money to do so), I will spend a night in the room. I find it EXTREMELY COOL that you got to stay a night! And thank you again for the AMAZING content you put in your videos, maybe if I am ever teaching American history and need some videos to show some historical places or items in museums that are made all the more educational by your EXTREMELY useful and enjoyable commentary, I will DEFINITELY use some of your videos!
Thank you, The History Underground!
Thank you! I really do appreciate that!
EPIC Episode, Fascinating history revisited 👍🇺🇸 Thank you for sharing 🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed it!!!
Thanks for sharing. Its also where we had the beginnings of Watergare Salad. Lol Happy Easter.
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I really enjoyed this episode. Thank you, JD.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's so amazing, I was only 1 year old when that took place, I wish I could time travel back to the '70s , I sure miss that decade
What an amazing experience you certainly hit a home run on this one.
Hope you had a good evening and you didn't have any nightmares of Tricky Dicky. On my only visit to DC I stayed at the Hilton where Reagan was shot. Also have you seen the film Nixon with the amazing Anthony Hopkins it is a fascinating movie.
Thanks once again JD.
Haven't seen the movie but definitely want to. I'll have to visit that Hilton spot on my next trip.
Nice! I remember all this went on while I was in the Navy. Thank you
Glad that you enjoyed it!
What an awesome video JD! Thanks for sharing this. It's so fascinating and found myself smiling the whole way through. Captivating stuff.
Thanks!
This is the coolest thing!!!! I love history and staying in history is awesome.
So much history in one hotel room! This was very interesting. Thank you!
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Very cool and I know you absolutely loved being there. Amazing history.
Very much so. Thanks!
And Monica lived in the apartments there I think. Also ironic that this was posted shortly after Liddy passed away.
Yes, I forgot to mention that. And yeah, I couldn't believe that Liddy passed away just as I was putting this footage together.
@@TheHistoryUnderground She is one of several famous people who lived there. Senator Bob Dole still lives there, and the late Justice Ginsburg had a residence there. And one of the men who went to jail for the crime lived there, John Mitchell.
Very cool. A big piece of history👏👏. Can't beat the old vinyl records👍👍
Oh man. Loved those old records. We sat there and listened to them all evening.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I've dug mine out but stylus has seen better days😂😂
I Love your vids and can hardly wait for the next one!!
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Our family took a road trip through the eastern United States in the summer of 1973. We spent a couple of days in Washington DC. My dad drove us by this place and said ,"There it is...Watergate". My sister and I were young, but knew that "Watergate" meant something pretty bad. And driving past the building seemed to my sister and me as if we were passing some prison or horrible place, because prison = bad, so that meant Watergate = bad. We were both actually scared! :) Silly now, of course, but we were young. I remember that we toured the White House and kept asking Dad if we were going to meet President Nixon! Now of course we didn't, but that would have been pretty mind blowing if it happened!
Something i never knew thank you for showing us
VVC&PDC WOW GREAT.The way you felt being in that room was how I felt visiting George Washington’s Mt. Vernon home. I still find it hard to believe when they told me his body was in the cement vault inside a cript.Please keep your stories coming.
George Gordon Battle Liddy just died this past week. Chief White House “Plumber”. I remember it all.
I was looking to see if that information made it to the comments...😉
Definitely an interesting character.
Extremely sad to hear that. G-Man was the best.
That was so cool!! Thank you so much for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoyed thanks this is a great video😊
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Great story and I’m glad they preserve the history. Nice work with the cinematography.
Thank you very much!
Man! The quality of your videos are just on point! The content as well! Great job! I believe G Gordon Liddy just passed away a couple days ago.
Thanks! That means a lot. And yes, Liddy just passed away a few days ago.
When I worked in talk radio, one of the public figures I was able to meet (and get an autograph from) was G. Gordon Liddy.
Oh wow! Very cool.
What a great video glad the Watergate has embraced its part of history
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Neat facts an information thank u for all u do.
Very cool video! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for watching!
I literally booked a short trip to DC to stay at the Watergate, based on this episode, and I am looking forward to it!
What a fantastic video. So much can be said about that room and our history.
I was in elementary school when watergate and the resignation occurred. When I was in high school I had no problem remembering which amendment of the constitution was the 25th and the details of it. Why because we learned all about it in regards to Agnew’s resignation , Ford’s appointment and Nixon’s resignation Became a lifelong US and presidential history buff as a result of my elementary teachers not being afraid to discuss Watergate and the events associated with it ,
I was 14 when Nixon resigned. We were in AZ on a family retreat. A bunch of us kids were outside playing and we came in loud as kids are. We were shushed as we came in. Nixon was on TV resigning.....I’ll never forget it! Up to then I hadn’t cared about politics....it was my start to caring deeply!
We had one of those phones! Lol
As always thanks for a great video! We love going to DC as well! Didn’t know one could stay there in that room! Goals!👊👊😎😎😎
JD fantastic video again and I can’t wait for the next video to come out and watching from England 🏴
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I had known about this scandal but I am grateful for you summarizing it before showing everything. By the way, I am 40 and I never used records...lol. By the time I was old enough to want to listen to music (late 80s) cassettes were a thing. Side note: My daughter will be in 8th grade next year and they do a "east coast trip" every year for the 8th graders. They hit Boston, DC, Gettysburg. I am SO excited to chaperone that trip. My daughter, not so much... HAHA
g gordon just passes this week. 'i put my hand in the flame to show how tough i was'
Another amazing video. I remember Watergate pretty well. Thanks for sharing
Great video!
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Great Vlog....Thanks....
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Did you play what was on that reel-to-reel recorder? I bet the counter was at the 18 minute mark, right? Hee-hee!
Ha! No, I didn't. I spent all of my time playing the records.
I hope one day you'll be able to go to Ouradour-Sur-Glane in France, it is a very important places for us French and the Germans.
You should make a video about this village and makes the anglophone world learn about the tragedy of this village.
That place is quite high on my list of places to see.
♥️♥️♥️♥️ Wow! This was so cool. I had no idea that they kept a part of history so alive in this motel. Fascinating!! It’s funny I lived through that time of “The Watergate Scandal “ How shocked all of us were.
To me , I would of taken this as a honor to stay on that room as long there’s no ghosts there😆. Seriously I really enjoyed this video but then again I love everyone that you do. ♥️♥️😊👍👍👍
Wow, that was cool to see. I was 14 years old when Watergate took place. Just had graduated from 8 th grade. I remember watching Nixon resign with my Dad on TV. My Dad helped explain to me what had happened. We both felt disappointed that day. Some memories just stay with you. Thank you for the video. Joyce🇺🇸. ARROW *🎱.
My pleasure! Glad that you enjoyed it.
Boy you talk about a memory I was probably 7yo but remember hearing the breaking news on my parents car radio while living in Hawaii. Don't know why it has stuck with me for so long being a little kid at the time.
Glad that the video could rekindle that memory :)
I do enjoy your videos on history
Dang! My bucket list just got longer. 😉
ha!
That had to have been a great experience!
It was!
Awesome video. Wow! Thanks
Important correction to your account of the break-in. It was discovered by a security officer named Frank Wills, not by a janitor. Wills was making rounds when he discovered and secured the taped door. When he checked the door later in the shift, the tape had been replaced. Wills called the police, and the rest is history. His performance was textbook-perfect, and it is being used to train officers in 2021.
You're right. I'll note the correction in the description. My bad. Thanks!
This is absolutely awesome! Thank you so much!
The room is extremely well done with its taste, old and the new.
Sure is Cool! Hope you slept well. Thanks.
“Yeah Sir, You Might Want To Send A Maintenance Man Over To That Office Across The Way. The Lights Are Off and They Must Be Looking For A Fusebox, cause them flashlights, they keeping me awake”
If you are ever in that part of the country again I highly recommend visiting Fort Necessity and Flight 93 National Memorial and Johnstown PA to learn about the great flood. Three sites, three subjects and three eras all about less than 2 hours from each other.
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Creepy B-roll 🤣
Interesting video. That happened the year I was born and growing up I can remember my parents and grandparents saying it's a shame about Watergate Nixon was a good president. Good stuff
Yeah. Too bad that he couldn't get out of his own way.
The key card got me laughing.
Compared to dirty politics of the last 30 years what Nixon did is mild. He should not have been forced to resign.
No shortage of drama in DC lol
@@TheHistoryUnderground Or any other government.
Yep. Jack Kennedy took the virginity of a 19 year old intern and asked her to service Bobby and Dave Powers in the swimming pool. Slick Willy actually grabbed Kathleen Willy’s breast and engaged in explicit activity with another intern. All of that actually happened in the White House itself. In no moral universe is that behavior “consensual” when it involves an intern (and a housewife in the case of Willey) and the most powerful man in the free world. I realize I’m setting the bar low here, but Trump never came close to anything on that level *after* he came to Washington and, no, telling a crowd to assemble “peacefully and patriotically” before a two hour riot does not an insurrection make.
I have some of the tin campaign buttons from the Nixon campaign. They are small and say "Nixon now more than ever ". I always hung on to them even though I was young at the time. I remember this whole event right up to the resignation, Ford swearing in and the televised trial. Seared into my memory.
Interesting!
I remember my dad giving me his old reel to reel tape recorder.
How great was that!
I was ten at this time,wow what a scandal. Very interesting vid on this subject thx HT🖒... cA
This is way cool JD 👍🏻😎
I bet room 205 (aka room 214) costs more than any other room.
Great post.
Without a doubt, one of the coolest hotel rooms ever.
I was only four years old but my mom plopped me in front of the TV for anything political or historical that was going on. Explains my current interests.
Your mom did you a great service :)
My mon did that too!
Ebbitts is the best food in dc. They make a real good trout Parmesan. It also was one of Ronald Reagan’s favorite restaurants.
I'll have to hit them up the next time I'm in DC.
I can remember watching the hearings in school. I think the teacher was more interesting in watching than providing an actual lesson. Who can forget the infamous tapes and the 18-1/2 minute gap.
After this video, I hope they comp'd your room 😆.
Ha! Watching the hearings probably stuck with you more than the lesson would have :)
Man am I ever old 🤦🏻♀️ lol ... I remember this but I was very young
I kept thinking of the scene from Forest Gump😆
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