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Mean this in jest of course, enjoying sitting down for the evening and listening to this Sean, much appreciation as always for doing history ‘content’ so professionally
It's amazing how often I'll read comments where people sort of retroactively frame Nixon as a pragmatic centrist, a "respectable politician compared to today", or even as someone who was unfairly scapegoated. Thank you for producing a video that so clearly and definitively shows that none of these things are true.
Personally I would take Nixon over Reagan all day. Reagan entrenched classist and racist ideas very deeply in the American psyche and had far more domestic ’’achievements’’ than did Nixon.
@@drtg101we7that may be true, but it doesn't matter. They were both absolute scumbags and helped lay out the groundwork for an alarming amount of the BS we have to deal with today
I worked on the TV show with G Gordon Liddy. He was an interesting complicated guy. My wife was going to an art exhibition in DC so I asked Gordon to recommend a hotel. He said, “I would recommend the Watergate, but I have only been in the walls“ at least he had a good sense of humor.
This channel is so underrated. You are one of the best history educators on this platform. Everything from how deep your videos are to your style of delivery to how you shape a story is just perfect.
People don't know this now, but before all the scandals Nixon was seen as something of a visionary breathing new life into Washington. He came from a lower-class background and got into university on a merit-based scholarship making him look like an average working family man, helping maintain a dignified public image. His ultimate goal was to bring the two parties together into one by embracing the economic and welfare state policies of the Democrats whilst doing away with the faux progressivism of Democrats and absconding the "party of northern liberal Lincoln" street cred of the Republicans. Seen in his '68 and '72 campaign strategy, focusing on the Great Society in blue states and appealing to "conservative social attitudes" (i.e. be racist) in red states. This won him every state except MA, something no president since the implementation of universal suffrage has been able to accomplish. He was, of course, a paranoid bigoted crook.
Your use of google earth (as someone currently learning to create videos using the same tools) is absolutely incredible, I loved this whole vid! Your channel is def top tier at this point
Wonderful job. The geography angle really makes the history tangible, and is also the ultimate "What Happened To ..." tool. It worked with the Manson video; it works here. One thing this fine video also did is remind me that it's about time for my yearly rewatch of "All the President's Men". That's a fantasy movie for me: where a Free Press speaks truth to Power, where people are punished no matter how powerful they are. Actually, 50 years ago, it wasn't a fantasy.
not sure you can say that people were punished no matter how powerful they are when Nixon was pardoned before he was ever charged or convicted of a crime. I don't care how much they tried to clean that up - it is a stain that does not come out - each subsequent republican president has broken the law badly - quite likely worse than Nixon - that can be traced directly to this idea that we do not hold leaders accountable for criminal behavior.
Im blown away at how prolific you are. These videos are all chock full of incredibly valuable context and details, i dont know how you produce them at such a breathtaking pace
To leave a more serious comment: Great video. I really enjoy your approach to history, and especially how you connect everything. I think many of us often forget the extent of Nixon's crimes and negative impact on the nation, so it is always good to have a reminder.
I remember seeing a documentary on Kent State where they interviewed cops involved in policing the protests. Kent was a blue collar rust belt town on a downhill slide. Many of the people in town, including the cops, hated the "elitist" college students. He actually described beating young men and women with his club with pride, seriously injuring men and women.
I actually kayaked on the Potomac with my aunt over half my lifetime ago, I remember her pointing out the Watergate complex, and I believe we briefly landed on Roosevelt island for a bathroom stop.
Sean every time I get a notification for a new video of yours I get so excited. You’re hands down the best historical channel I’ve ever watched. Please keep blessing us with your videos!
This was so informative and fascinating! Watergate was the backdrop of my early adolescence (Nixon resigned right before I entered 7th grade, and my mother had the hearings on the TV whenever they were happening). It’s easy for someone like me-who was steeped in news of the scandal for two years at an age when I was just beginning to pay attention to the world outside my neighborhood-to harbor the illusion that there’s nothing new for me to learn. Of course, that’s nonsense, but I’m gobsmacked by the number of interesting revelations and connections you managed to weave into this narrative. You definitely have another fan!
Found your channel while traveling for Thanksgiving and realizing it was the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination. This channel has become one of my favorite channels now. Just great information and adore the long form videos!
I didn't know how much I needed this channel. Thanks so much for the time and effort we all appreciate it you have a way of talking that's really easy to learn from
Watergate is one of my favorite historical subjects. I was born exactly two months minus one day before the break in & if you let my mom tell it my first words were “Tricky Dick” & she knew then I would be into politics. As someone who now works in DC this is a very interesting take on the subject.
Excellent video Dr. Munger. I notice you attended law school at my undergraduate alma mater Tulane. You should know that your video was so engrossing that it has distracted me from my own upcoming law school exams here at Cornell. Thank you for the great distraction, and you can consider me a faithful subscriber from now on.
I was barely a teenager when the Watergate scandal broke. Thanks for treating this to your usual in depth analysis and making so many half and misremembered memories take real shape.
I love these videos!!! I am a history student so logically my time off would be spent consuming content about literally anything else, but I can’t help it! These are so good
One of the most intriguing aspects of the case, usually sloughed over or not mentioned at all, was the plane crash in Chicago which killed E. Howard Hunt's wife, whose name was Dorothy, I believe. Mrs Hunt's suitcase was loaded with a lot of cash, and, of course, the prime speculation has always been that the cash was hush money.
The fact that you churn 2-3h of college class-level YT videos at the rate of one-per-month is a breath of fresh air in this era of TikTok instant dopamine rush Internet. Do you think you will be available on podcast platforms one day? I hate sharing all this quality time with some stupid airline commercial every five seconds. Thank you. A listener from France
I am from Europe, but I am fascinated by US history. Your videos simply amazing in the wealth of context they provide for the major historical events they cover. As a side note, I have played Division 2 (which takes place in the entire area from Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol Hill, Foggy Bottom to Pen Quarter, the whole area represented in detail), and I was fascinated by the looks of the Watergate complex without knowing anything about its significance. Until now.
I always look forward to your videos! Your way of approaching historical events and people is uniquely interesting, and I always feel like I learn so much
I just watched a 3 hour video of yours and well, here I am 😂 totally sober just learning past midnight because I want to. Thanks🎉 My uncle is a history teacher at a middle school and I sent him your video on the monarchs I just watched. Mad respect❤
This video is incredible! I just stumbled across your channel searching for stuff on Watergate and I’m now going to go binge the rest of your content 🏅🏆👏🏻
i know i commented when the video was first posted but i keep coming back to it and am compelled to leave a second comment. as a history major and hopeful to become a professor the way you make content and deliver information is the way i hope to become after i graduate. i really aspire to become like you as an educator and history lover. i hope you continue to do this as long as you enjoy it which hopefully will be awhile! your videos keep me motivated to keep working towards my goals to get into grad school so i hope this reaches you well and i am excited to see what else you can create!
During that time - before the tapes went public - some journalist said that debate over Nixon’s innocence was similar to asking whether the madam of a brothel is a virgin. His indisputable complicity is shocking, yeah, at the “I am not a crook” stage he was up to his ears in it even without any proof. And it was a REALLY good line!
You did an amazing job connecting all of these angles. I'm very interested in your next journey into the past. History continues to weave in and out in and out...
Another fantastic doc. You continue to deliver an overlay of histories that leaves me far more knowledgable regarding the actual context of why, what and what-after actually happened.
My man! Thank you. Can't wait to watch this 10 times and learn something new each time. You were researching when I asked for this.. Can't wait to see what you share in 2024!
I can't wait for the next video! Sean, you are the only documentarians that I can listen to at full attention for hours on end. I've been toying with the idea of doing aviation history videos and the stories behind their production, and your style of video is just amazing in how you can place thkngs in chapters, and even stop yourself from going off on tangents that should be saved for another time. I think i video going over the early days of the atomic energy comission, the spy plane program, and the beginning of the groom lake facility would be great if told by someone like you! It's a very interesting topic, and having talked with many of the ex SR-71 pilots, mechanics, and engineers i found some cool stpries ranging from a civilian emergency landing at Area 51 to a scientist with an X-15 parked in his driveway! Back to the point, thank you for being so comprehensive and concise. You are one of my favorite people on this site, and every chance i get i refer you to my friends. I hope you're doing well!
I have been obsessed with Watergate ever since I lived through it. I have read lots of books and seen lots of terrific videos about it. This is a new perspective that I greatly appreciate. I have learned so many new to me things. Thank you.
I spent so much of my life watching these sorts of videos, and honestly the detail, presentation, quality and frequency of your videos is top notch. I can't wait to watch this one, and see what's next, would you consider doing a video on OJ, I felt as if ti was hinted in the Manson video 😅.
Another fantastic video. I find it insane you've been able to make these incredibly sourced and in depth videos so quickly all of which have been brilliant. Thanks again.
I have really enjoyed your history videos since finding your channel earlier in the Autumn. Your innovative approach in presenting the subject is unique and fascinating, and really allows the listener to look at old and worn stories in an entirely new light, from entirely new angles. I lived through the Watergate scandal, and I would have never thought that anyone could make it interesting to me again, but you have done so. As a reader of history, for the pure pleasure of doing so, of over a half century standing, I take my hat off to you Sir. Why at the very start I learned something new. The Watergate burgurlers were arrested by cops dresses as hippies? I find that somehow appropreate and oddly satisfying.
Never seen this channel before. But the combination of the topic and the selection of books you have chosen to put in frame have convinced me to watch this whole thing.
The thoroughness is very impressive. It's hard to unpack such complicated stories but you seem to do it with ease. It's important to get some context around the story and you do well in that regard as well. Amazing video and hopefully there are many more to come in the future.
Your channel is great. I love these long form videos. You are able to narrativize while still sticking to facts and presenting evidence. Your videos have that “my favorite collage professor” lecture vibe.
been here since 4,000 subs. so happy you’re getting the recognition you deserve. your channel (and a few others) helped me realize i want to go to school for history! i want to work in the antiques industry (not sure what i want to specialize in yet), which is basically history through objects instead of history through geography :D
Thank you, Dr Munger, that was most enlightening. As a teenager living in Australia, I wasn’t particularly aware of the Watergate Scandal, but one day the head nun at our school called us inside and sat us down to watch Nixon’s resignation speech on television. It was many years later that I understood why she did so. We were watching history being in made.
2:03:41 my understanding is that this photo was not taken on the embassy grounds but is actually a photo of the apartment building where the CIA station chief was living. My source for this is the 2014 documentary film "Last Days in Vietnam". I hope you read this comment Sean. I'm a fan of your work and I don't think you would spread inaccuracies intentionally. As this is a fairly minor mix up, my opinion is that you should add a small correction either in the video description or in a pinned comment. Thank you and keep up the good work.
Congrats on this episode -- a triumph! I'd also add that it's a real trip to be able to watch some of the "primary sources" here on RUclips in the old Firing Line episodes with William F. Buckley, e.g. the interviews with Woodward/Bernstein, G Gordon Liddy, E Howard Hunt, and even Pres. Ford. Also catch his famous dust-up with Gore Vidal, from the floor of the '68 convention. Another possibility for "whole Bay of Pigs thing" (1:17:00) -- it was code for regime-change/assassination programs, he was telling CIA to stay in line.
Damn Sean you’ve done it again. I’ve read several biographies on Nixon. I find the man to be a fascinating subject. But this video hits a lot of the main points from a new perspective and angle. Love it. Keep on professor
What a fascinating way to explore major events! My only criticism is a bit nit picking. Unlike the FBI, which has "agents", CIA personnel are referred to as "officers." That's due to their military origins, evolving out of the OSS. Keep up the great work, Sean.
Seeing name with "woods" in new York city area seems bizarre to my mind... Seeing all of these old photos and maps always bring some strange feeling of "forever lost" pieces of history
Magnificent. I think you've found a winning formula for a series, Sean! I don't always agree with your perspective from a personal level, but your facts are straight, your arguments cogent, and your reasoning has always been impeccable. I couldn't ask for better. ❤
I had the privilege of meeting President Nixon in 1982. I was 7 years old. My parents took me to the Ringling Brothers circus in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. Richard Nixon lived in northern New Jersey at the time and was also at the circus that day with his family. During intermission a crowd began around him to get his autograph. He only took a few and had stopped by the time my parents sent me up to meet him. He noticed me straggling around and looked at me compassionately and asked me if I knew who he was. I said “no, but my Mommy and Daddy” do. He reached out to me and took my circus program and signed it. I didn’t realize at that time what a generous gesture it was for him to have done that. Whatever his legacy is with most people, or whatever his politics or crimes were, he was very kind to me as a child. His legacy with me personally is very good. It goes to show there is more to a human being and their personhood than what they go down in history for. Some very bad people go down in history as heroes, and some very kind people go down in history as crooks. Aren’t we all heroes during certain times in our lives, and crooks at other times?
I appreciate your story and opinions of him. While the Watergate scandal exposed some serious character flaws in the man, I personally think its inarguable that he was an effective President aside from the scandal.
Your story is lovely. And it’s an example of something I say often. Life isn’t black and white. It’s grey. Very few people are a totally bad or totally good. They may have done bad things or truly good things. Don’t get me wrong I understand that there are evil people out there. But the vast majority are just human beings that are fallible.
I hope 2024 brings you a lot more subscribers! Your videos are great to listen to while I’m cross stitching, cleaning house, eating lunch, etc. Thank you for taking the time to make these deep dives for the rest of us to enjoy!!!
You are the historian for me, Sean. Details to the maximum extent are how to learn things, and I gained from every minute of this. And I think in patterns, so I loved all the connections…. So Rosemary Woods’ Watergate residence was broken into? I wish Nixon’s reaction to hearing that had been recorded! Probably something like, “Those $&#% burglars. I’ll show ‘em. I’ll launch a war on crime against the &#%@ subhuman filth that breaks into a place like the Watergate complex!”
I have been watching all of your videos while a I quilt and decompress between my law school finals. Thank you for all of your engaging, well-researched content.
Really enjoyed this one. I know it wouldn't fit the content of this channel very well, but I would be really interested in a video outlining your research methods, thought process, and more around these projects if you have an interest in making it.
As soon as I heard you mention Liddy's obsession with Hitler, I wondered if you'd listened to the "Behind the Bastards" episodes about him. It's a great podcast, and the Liddy series is very good. If you haven't listened to "BtB's" Kissinger series, you should. All six episodes are worth it. Love your videos. Keep up the great work!
Very smart and detailed Storytelling of that Era. Perfectly communicated and i guess, you took hell lot of a time for that. Great Job! PS: Sean, i like your T-Shirt. Never bought one in Wacken, but i keep my Arm Band in a cosy place from 2003. :)
Love the floating trees around his CA residence 🙂 I was young when this all happened, and it's always fascinated me. How did I never know there's tape of him giving a burglary order. Just wow!
Dude, you're like classic radio, the hits just keep coming. Thank you for another awesome video! I know I've asked for RFK before, but I'd love to see D.B. Cooper and Jimmy Hoffa from your perspective too!
The algorithm sent me here! I’ve just listened to the Behind the Bastards episodes on G Gordon Liddy, and I’m really enjoying your geographical take on this time in history!
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Congratulations!
THERE ARE SIGNS ON THE RING, WHICH MAKE ME FEEL SO DOWN!! AWESOME A GUARDIAN FAN!!
“It’s also a story, believe it or not, about geography” shook me more than the scandal ever could. A truly brilliant Munger Moment
Mean this in jest of course, enjoying sitting down for the evening and listening to this Sean, much appreciation as always for doing history ‘content’ so professionally
Certified Munger Moment occurred this day
No way bro stop POSTING SPOILERS 😢
I feel like this is a reference to another youtube comment somewhere else, am I crazy?
One of the munger moments of all time
It's amazing how often I'll read comments where people sort of retroactively frame Nixon as a pragmatic centrist, a "respectable politician compared to today", or even as someone who was unfairly scapegoated. Thank you for producing a video that so clearly and definitively shows that none of these things are true.
Personally I would take Nixon over Reagan all day. Reagan entrenched classist and racist ideas very deeply in the American psyche and had far more domestic ’’achievements’’ than did Nixon.
@@drtg101we7Reagan used Nixon's playbook
@@drtg101we7That's not saying very much. Reagan destroyed what is means to be American more than anyone else other than the confederates
@@drtg101we7that may be true, but it doesn't matter. They were both absolute scumbags and helped lay out the groundwork for an alarming amount of the BS we have to deal with today
@@xp7575 I don't think they were ideologically identical, if they were, Nixon would not have expanded benefits.
I just wanna say I feel like your channel is personally designed for me. Please never stop making these deep dive videos they’re so good.
I worked on the TV show with G Gordon Liddy. He was an interesting complicated guy. My wife was going to an art exhibition in DC so I asked Gordon to recommend a hotel. He said, “I would recommend the Watergate, but I have only been in the walls“ at least he had a good sense of humor.
Excellent story! Love it.
That's a great story! 😅
This channel is so underrated. You are one of the best history educators on this platform. Everything from how deep your videos are to your style of delivery to how you shape a story is just perfect.
As someone who is completely uninterested in geography, I commend you for making me watch this whole video.
This video killed Kissinger
rest in piss
Another reason to love this video
A shame he couldn't have released it 70 years ago 🤔
Kissinger is a cloven foot deep state operative with no real allegiance to America. He turns 130 this year 😏
I can’t believe this quality of scholarship is on RUclips. A person ought to pay a fee to get this kind of knowledge. It’s amazing, really.
That'll be $5, please. 😂
@@SeanMungerI'll put it in the "tip jar", next to the "swear jar", ok? 😂
It would definitely be nice for people who really appreciate this quality of education!! Where would one donate?
Just 3 days after the release of this video, one of the key figures in the Nixon Admin, Henry Kissinger passed away.
I love the way you frame and approach every topic you cover, so engaging from start to finish.
Thank you so much!
People don't know this now, but before all the scandals Nixon was seen as something of a visionary breathing new life into Washington. He came from a lower-class background and got into university on a merit-based scholarship making him look like an average working family man, helping maintain a dignified public image. His ultimate goal was to bring the two parties together into one by embracing the economic and welfare state policies of the Democrats whilst doing away with the faux progressivism of Democrats and absconding the "party of northern liberal Lincoln" street cred of the Republicans. Seen in his '68 and '72 campaign strategy, focusing on the Great Society in blue states and appealing to "conservative social attitudes" (i.e. be racist) in red states. This won him every state except MA, something no president since the implementation of universal suffrage has been able to accomplish.
He was, of course, a paranoid bigoted crook.
It's like he was trying to be a Walmart brand Mussolini lol
“I welcome this kind of examination. People need to know whether their president is a crook.”
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Thanks!
very happy to see this collab
Your use of google earth (as someone currently learning to create videos using the same tools) is absolutely incredible, I loved this whole vid! Your channel is def top tier at this point
Wonderful job. The geography angle really makes the history tangible, and is also the ultimate "What Happened To ..." tool. It worked with the Manson video; it works here. One thing this fine video also did is remind me that it's about time for my yearly rewatch of "All the President's Men". That's a fantasy movie for me: where a Free Press speaks truth to Power, where people are punished no matter how powerful they are. Actually, 50 years ago, it wasn't a fantasy.
not sure you can say that people were punished no matter how powerful they are when Nixon was pardoned before he was ever charged or convicted of a crime. I don't care how much they tried to clean that up - it is a stain that does not come out - each subsequent republican president has broken the law badly - quite likely worse than Nixon - that can be traced directly to this idea that we do not hold leaders accountable for criminal behavior.
Im blown away at how prolific you are. These videos are all chock full of incredibly valuable context and details, i dont know how you produce them at such a breathtaking pace
To leave a more serious comment: Great video. I really enjoy your approach to history, and especially how you connect everything. I think many of us often forget the extent of Nixon's crimes and negative impact on the nation, so it is always good to have a reminder.
I remember seeing a documentary on Kent State where they interviewed cops involved in policing the protests. Kent was a blue collar rust belt town on a downhill slide. Many of the people in town, including the cops, hated the "elitist" college students. He actually described beating young men and women with his club with pride, seriously injuring men and women.
I actually kayaked on the Potomac with my aunt over half my lifetime ago, I remember her pointing out the Watergate complex, and I believe we briefly landed on Roosevelt island for a bathroom stop.
My favorite history channel on RUclips. It's not even close, and I mean that! Thank you for making these. I turn off my adblocker for you lol
Thanks so much!
anytime you drop a new video I actually get really hyped I like the way you tell history
Sean every time I get a notification for a new video of yours I get so excited. You’re hands down the best historical channel I’ve ever watched. Please keep blessing us with your videos!
I can’t thank you enough for your work Sean! I’m able to handle my son’s history questions with much more context.
This was so informative and fascinating! Watergate was the backdrop of my early adolescence (Nixon resigned right before I entered 7th grade, and my mother had the hearings on the TV whenever they were happening). It’s easy for someone like me-who was steeped in news of the scandal for two years at an age when I was just beginning to pay attention to the world outside my neighborhood-to harbor the illusion that there’s nothing new for me to learn. Of course, that’s nonsense, but I’m gobsmacked by the number of interesting revelations and connections you managed to weave into this narrative. You definitely have another fan!
This video was recommended to me out of the blue, and I loved it! Looking forward to your past and future content.
Welcome aboard!
Found your channel while traveling for Thanksgiving and realizing it was the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
This channel has become one of my favorite channels now. Just great information and adore the long form videos!
Historian here: Your videos are incredibly well made. Thank you for your contributions. Channels like yours make RUclips special.
I didn't know how much I needed this channel. Thanks so much for the time and effort we all appreciate it you have a way of talking that's really easy to learn from
Watergate is one of my favorite historical subjects. I was born exactly two months minus one day before the break in & if you let my mom tell it my first words were “Tricky Dick” & she knew then I would be into politics. As someone who now works in DC this is a very interesting take on the subject.
Love the Robert Evans shoutout! Been listening to the both of you a lot this past year:)
Excellent video Dr. Munger. I notice you attended law school at my undergraduate alma mater Tulane. You should know that your video was so engrossing that it has distracted me from my own upcoming law school exams here at Cornell. Thank you for the great distraction, and you can consider me a faithful subscriber from now on.
39:28 "There go 5,000 unsubscribers right there" made me laugh. Fantastic and informative and just generally well made video as always, Sean
I was barely a teenager when the Watergate scandal broke. Thanks for treating this to your usual in depth analysis and making so many half and misremembered memories take real shape.
I love these videos!!! I am a history student so logically my time off would be spent consuming content about literally anything else, but I can’t help it! These are so good
discovered this channel a few weeks ago and i love it. keep up the amazing work
Here we go boys!
One of the most intriguing aspects of the case, usually sloughed over or not mentioned at all, was the plane crash in Chicago which killed E. Howard Hunt's wife, whose name was Dorothy, I believe. Mrs Hunt's suitcase was loaded with a lot of cash, and, of course, the prime speculation has always been that the cash was hush money.
The fact that you churn 2-3h of college class-level YT videos at the rate of one-per-month is a breath of fresh air in this era of TikTok instant dopamine rush Internet. Do you think you will be available on podcast platforms one day? I hate sharing all this quality time with some stupid airline commercial every five seconds. Thank you.
A listener from France
I am from Europe, but I am fascinated by US history. Your videos simply amazing in the wealth of context they provide for the major historical events they cover. As a side note, I have played Division 2 (which takes place in the entire area from Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol Hill, Foggy Bottom to Pen Quarter, the whole area represented in detail), and I was fascinated by the looks of the Watergate complex without knowing anything about its significance. Until now.
I always look forward to your videos! Your way of approaching historical events and people is uniquely interesting, and I always feel like I learn so much
I just watched a 3 hour video of yours and well, here I am 😂 totally sober just learning past midnight because I want to. Thanks🎉
My uncle is a history teacher at a middle school and I sent him your video on the monarchs I just watched. Mad respect❤
This video is incredible! I just stumbled across your channel searching for stuff on Watergate and I’m now going to go binge the rest of your content 🏅🏆👏🏻
I love these "where it happened" videos of yours! Keep them coming.
i know i commented when the video was first posted but i keep coming back to it and am compelled to leave a second comment. as a history major and hopeful to become a professor the way you make content and deliver information is the way i hope to become after i graduate. i really aspire to become like you as an educator and history lover. i hope you continue to do this as long as you enjoy it which hopefully will be awhile! your videos keep me motivated to keep working towards my goals to get into grad school so i hope this reaches you well and i am excited to see what else you can create!
jeeesus. Were was this channel all my life! This is by far the best channel regarding historical topics!
His "I'm not a crook" speech happened at a Walt Disney resort in Orlando
During that time - before the tapes went public - some journalist said that debate over Nixon’s innocence was similar to asking whether the madam of a brothel is a virgin. His indisputable complicity is shocking, yeah, at the “I am not a crook” stage he was up to his ears in it even without any proof. And it was a REALLY good line!
You did an amazing job connecting all of these angles. I'm very interested in your next journey into the past. History continues to weave in and out in and out...
This is a cool concept. I wish they would have had geographic and environmental history when I got my undergrad.
This is absolutely my favorite history channel. Keep up the great work!
Another fantastic doc. You continue to deliver an overlay of histories that leaves me far more knowledgable regarding the actual context of why, what and what-after actually happened.
My man! Thank you. Can't wait to watch this 10 times and learn something new each time. You were researching when I asked for this.. Can't wait to see what you share in 2024!
I can't wait for the next video! Sean, you are the only documentarians that I can listen to at full attention for hours on end. I've been toying with the idea of doing aviation history videos and the stories behind their production, and your style of video is just amazing in how you can place thkngs in chapters, and even stop yourself from going off on tangents that should be saved for another time.
I think i video going over the early days of the atomic energy comission, the spy plane program, and the beginning of the groom lake facility would be great if told by someone like you! It's a very interesting topic, and having talked with many of the ex SR-71 pilots, mechanics, and engineers i found some cool stpries ranging from a civilian emergency landing at Area 51 to a scientist with an X-15 parked in his driveway!
Back to the point, thank you for being so comprehensive and concise. You are one of my favorite people on this site, and every chance i get i refer you to my friends. I hope you're doing well!
Your videos are always top-tier, cheers! Keep it up, its fascinating stuff.
I have been obsessed with Watergate ever since I lived through it. I have read lots of books and seen lots of terrific videos about it. This is a new perspective that I greatly appreciate. I have learned so many new to me things. Thank you.
Thanks so much for the time stamps, I’m working rn and I keep getting distracted on parts but great vid keep them up
I LOVE history through geography
LOVE LOVE LOVE FINNALLY SOMEONE with the brains and voice is making videos on it
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Thanks so much! 🙏
I spent so much of my life watching these sorts of videos, and honestly the detail, presentation, quality and frequency of your videos is top notch. I can't wait to watch this one, and see what's next, would you consider doing a video on OJ, I felt as if ti was hinted in the Manson video 😅.
Sean, it never ceases to amaze me how quick you get these long videos out bravo!
Whoa!! Didnt expect the behind the bastards and sean munger crossover heheh, it would be awesome if they had you as a guest
Another fantastic video. I find it insane you've been able to make these incredibly sourced and in depth videos so quickly all of which have been brilliant. Thanks again.
I have really enjoyed your history videos since finding your channel earlier in the Autumn. Your innovative approach in presenting the subject is unique and fascinating, and really allows the listener to look at old and worn stories in an entirely new light, from entirely new angles. I lived through the Watergate scandal, and I would have never thought that anyone could make it interesting to me again, but you have done so. As a reader of history, for the pure pleasure of doing so, of over a half century standing, I take my hat off to you Sir. Why at the very start I learned something new. The Watergate burgurlers were arrested by cops dresses as hippies? I find that somehow appropreate and oddly satisfying.
Never seen this channel before. But the combination of the topic and the selection of books you have chosen to put in frame have convinced me to watch this whole thing.
Congrats on the sponsor! I want Munger Merch next, t-shirt or maybe a mug. Your videos are fantastic, thank you so very much.
The thoroughness is very impressive. It's hard to unpack such complicated stories but you seem to do it with ease. It's important to get some context around the story and you do well in that regard as well. Amazing video and hopefully there are many more to come in the future.
Your channel is great. I love these long form videos. You are able to narrativize while still sticking to facts and presenting evidence. Your videos have that “my favorite collage professor” lecture vibe.
🦀🦀🦀 KISSINGER IS DEAD 🦀🦀🦀
been here since 4,000 subs. so happy you’re getting the recognition you deserve. your channel (and a few others) helped me realize i want to go to school for history! i want to work in the antiques industry (not sure what i want to specialize in yet), which is basically history through objects instead of history through geography :D
Please share what other history channels you enjoy! And good luck in your journey with History! ^_^
Thank you, Dr Munger, that was most enlightening. As a teenager living in Australia, I wasn’t particularly aware of the Watergate Scandal, but one day the head nun at our school called us inside and sat us down to watch Nixon’s resignation speech on television. It was many years later that I understood why she did so. We were watching history being in made.
You’re videos are incredibly insightful and all out entertaining for all of us history nerds out here. Many thanks!
2:03:41 my understanding is that this photo was not taken on the embassy grounds but is actually a photo of the apartment building where the CIA station chief was living. My source for this is the 2014 documentary film "Last Days in Vietnam". I hope you read this comment Sean. I'm a fan of your work and I don't think you would spread inaccuracies intentionally. As this is a fairly minor mix up, my opinion is that you should add a small correction either in the video description or in a pinned comment. Thank you and keep up the good work.
so happy you're covering this event :)
Congrats on this episode -- a triumph! I'd also add that it's a real trip to be able to watch some of the "primary sources" here on RUclips in the old Firing Line episodes with William F. Buckley, e.g. the interviews with Woodward/Bernstein, G Gordon Liddy, E Howard Hunt, and even Pres. Ford. Also catch his famous dust-up with Gore Vidal, from the floor of the '68 convention.
Another possibility for "whole Bay of Pigs thing" (1:17:00) -- it was code for regime-change/assassination programs, he was telling CIA to stay in line.
Damn Sean you’ve done it again. I’ve read several biographies on Nixon. I find the man to be a fascinating subject. But this video hits a lot of the main points from a new perspective and angle. Love it. Keep on professor
What a fascinating way to explore major events! My only criticism is a bit nit picking. Unlike the FBI, which has "agents", CIA personnel are referred to as "officers." That's due to their military origins, evolving out of the OSS. Keep up the great work, Sean.
Seeing name with "woods" in new York city area seems bizarre to my mind... Seeing all of these old photos and maps always bring some strange feeling of "forever lost" pieces of history
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!!! TURN IT UP!!!
I choose to believe that this video is what made Henry Kissinger drop dead three days later 🙏🤲🎉
A fenomenal deconstruction of events, places and conversations . Thank you for your effort. I recommend ‼️
I absolutely love these geography videos! Keep them coming if you can, you're great Sean!
Great stuff as always Sean, thanks!
Magnificent. I think you've found a winning formula for a series, Sean!
I don't always agree with your perspective from a personal level, but your facts are straight, your arguments cogent, and your reasoning has always been impeccable. I couldn't ask for better. ❤
Your deep dive treatment wouldn't be wasted on the bay of pigs event. The videos that exist now just read the Wikipedia pages' sources.
Thanks, good idea!
I had the privilege of meeting President Nixon in 1982. I was 7 years old. My parents took me to the Ringling Brothers circus in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. Richard Nixon lived in northern New Jersey at the time and was also at the circus that day with his family. During intermission a crowd began around him to get his autograph. He only took a few and had stopped by the time my parents sent me up to meet him. He noticed me straggling around and looked at me compassionately and asked me if I knew who he was. I said “no, but my Mommy and Daddy” do. He reached out to me and took my circus program and signed it. I didn’t realize at that time what a generous gesture it was for him to have done that. Whatever his legacy is with most people, or whatever his politics or crimes were, he was very kind to me as a child. His legacy with me personally is very good. It goes to show there is more to a human being and their personhood than what they go down in history for. Some very bad people go down in history as heroes, and some very kind people go down in history as crooks. Aren’t we all heroes during certain times in our lives, and crooks at other times?
I appreciate your story and opinions of him. While the Watergate scandal exposed some serious character flaws in the man, I personally think its inarguable that he was an effective President aside from the scandal.
Your story is lovely. And it’s an example of something I say often. Life isn’t black and white. It’s grey.
Very few people are a totally bad or totally good. They may have done bad things or truly good things.
Don’t get me wrong I understand that there are evil people out there. But the vast majority are just human beings that are fallible.
Sean, this is the first of your videos that I have watched. I'm definitely going to look for another one. Thanks!
I hope 2024 brings you a lot more subscribers! Your videos are great to listen to while I’m cross stitching, cleaning house, eating lunch, etc. Thank you for taking the time to make these deep dives for the rest of us to enjoy!!!
Thank you so much!
You are the historian for me, Sean. Details to the maximum extent are how to learn things, and I gained from every minute of this. And I think in patterns, so I loved all the connections….
So Rosemary Woods’ Watergate residence was broken into? I wish Nixon’s reaction to hearing that had been recorded! Probably something like, “Those $&#% burglars. I’ll show ‘em. I’ll launch a war on crime against the &#%@ subhuman filth that breaks into a place like the Watergate complex!”
I have been watching all of your videos while a I quilt and decompress between my law school finals. Thank you for all of your engaging, well-researched content.
Really enjoyed this one. I know it wouldn't fit the content of this channel very well, but I would be really interested in a video outlining your research methods, thought process, and more around these projects if you have an interest in making it.
As soon as I heard you mention Liddy's obsession with Hitler, I wondered if you'd listened to the "Behind the Bastards" episodes about him. It's a great podcast, and the Liddy series is very good. If you haven't listened to "BtB's" Kissinger series, you should. All six episodes are worth it.
Love your videos. Keep up the great work!
probably the best teacher for history I've found
babe wake up, sean munger just uploaded a 2 hour long video about watergate
Watergate is one of the most fascinating historical events to me - so excited to watch, thank you!
Very smart and detailed Storytelling of that Era. Perfectly communicated and i guess, you took hell lot of a time for that. Great Job! PS: Sean, i like your T-Shirt. Never bought one in Wacken, but i keep my Arm Band in a cosy place from 2003. :)
2003 was my favorite Wacken!
This is my first time to see your podcast. My hat is off to you, this is really good, Sean.
You never disappoint! Thus far, I've thoroughly enjoyed every podcast you've done (that I've watched). Extremely informative, insightful and entertaining...... THANKS! 😊
Oh man, your channel has absolutely blown up! I think I joined when you had 10k followers, and that wasn't long ago!
Love the floating trees around his CA residence 🙂
I was young when this all happened, and it's always fascinated me. How did I never know there's tape of him giving a burglary order. Just wow!
Nixon was more of a slimebag than I thought he was at the time this happened.
Notice that "man of the people Nixon" is only talking to Officers here -> 5:30
They all have Bars on their collars or helmets.
Dude, you're like classic radio, the hits just keep coming. Thank you for another awesome video! I know I've asked for RFK before, but I'd love to see D.B. Cooper and Jimmy Hoffa from your perspective too!
The algorithm sent me here! I’ve just listened to the Behind the Bastards episodes on G Gordon Liddy, and I’m really enjoying your geographical take on this time in history!