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- If you ask most people to explain what Watergate was all about, they might say that it was about a bungled break-in that brought down a president. That’s true, but the break-in is the least significant part of the scandal. What else should you know? Radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt has the real story.
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Script:
The most famous political scandal in American history is, of course, Watergate. It’s so famous that even now, 50 years after it happened, almost every scandal of any kind comes with an obligatory “gate” after it.
If you ask most people to explain what Watergate was all about, they draw a blank. If they know a bit of history, or perhaps they lived through it, they might say something like this: “It was about a bungled break-in that brought down a president.” That’s true. But the break-in is the least significant part of the story.
Watergate was, first and foremost, a political war between the president, Richard Nixon, and the media, which in those pre-cable days meant ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. The media’s aim, in the words of British historian Paul Johnson, “was to use publicity to reverse the electoral verdict of 1972.”
Why? What did the media have against Nixon? That’s a complex question, but we can essentially boil it down to three things: 1. He was despised by the East Coast liberal elite, of which the Washington press corps was a key component. 2. He was a staunch anti-communist. The media considered the communist threat to be overblown. 3. He refused to abandon South Vietnam. Nixon insisted on “a peace with honor.” The media was entirely “anti-war.”
Even though Nixon spent most of his adult life in New York and Washington, he never fit in. Born in a small town in California, there were no Ivy League degrees on his resume. To make matters worse, while not being part of McCarthyism, he made his reputation aggressively exposing Alger Hiss, a communist in the U.S. State Department in the late 1940s. After serving as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower for eight years, he ran against and nearly defeated John F. Kennedy, the paragon of East Coast elitism in 1960.
Then, eight years later, and much to the media’s dismay, Nixon mounted an improbable political comeback to win that year’s presidential election. And then, as if rubbing the media’s nose in it, he won again in a 49-state landslide in 1972.
Something had to be done. Ironically, Nixon’s own people provided the opportunity the media had been waiting for. On June 17, 1972, five men associated with the Nixon re-election campaign broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. Presumably, they intended to gather information about the Democrats’ campaign strategy. Whatever their purpose, it was a painfully dumb plan that turned catastrophic when the burglars were caught in the act and arrested by D.C. police.
Nixon found out about it-like everyone else-in the morning papers. Initially, he didn’t think it was a big deal. “I had been in politics too long,” he later wrote, “and had seen everything from dirty tricks to vote fraud. I could not muster much moral outrage over a political bugging.”
Today, most would conclude that if he had simply acknowledged his campaign’s responsibility-“owned it,” as we say, fired those responsible, and apologized, the whole sorry mess would have been rendered the minor incident it was. But, as historian Evan Thomas noted, Nixon “wasn’t paying attention and when he was confronted with the problems below deck, he didn’t really engage… by the time he did, it was too late.”
So the scandal grew beyond his control. Three men made sure of that: a publicity-seeking judge, a revenge-seeking FBI official, and a partisan special prosecutor.
The judge was John Sirica. Suspecting a vast conspiracy, Sirica threatened the burglars with lifetime prison sentences if they didn’t rat out the people who authorized the crime. The media loved Sirica. For a time, he was the most famous jurist in the country.
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I like how Democrats raised hell about Watergate, but none of them had any problems when LBJ tapped Barry Goldwater's headquarters and plane in 1964.
You know how democrats operate but Republicans are at fault for caving in.
Or when they did it to Trump
Nixon won 49/50 states in 1972. You could say he was a popular guy! Must have been doing something right. In retrospect, there was no need for him to wiretap the DNC- the election was a blowout.
@SoundwaveSinus9 Watergate= impeach! Hunter Biden Story & Biden/Ukraine Story= Bury it! Benghazi= Bury it! Clinton Foundation donations= bury it!
“I’ll have them n*****s voting democrat for years!” -LBJ
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. - Richard Nixon
Trump didn't concede
@@mezo72271 yea but hes definitely finished
@@mezo72271 Damned RIGHT Trump did not concede 🍺😎👍
@@Logoned that’s not how it works lmao
Ironic: he quit the presidency.
This sounds oddly familiar to what happened to Trump. I'm 56 years old. I was a boy at that time. And I never took the time to learn the whole story. Thank you!
Trump was a a** who screwed things up. His treatment of immigrants was a Human rights violation. He could handle and single issue beyond holding rallies. Everything he touched turned out bad. All he had was a trend of nominal job growth, and even that was a carry over from Obama, and ended because Trump mismanaged the pandemic.
@@willhiggins9563 I guess you wouldnt give Trump any credit for the Covid vaccine we are all taking now?
@@willhiggins9563 Take your meds or you get committed.
@@willhiggins9563 what exactly did he do to immigrants that qualifies as human rights abuse, Will?
@@willhiggins9563 Who built the cages, Biden?!
Remember when Trump was in office and the media would sensationalize the smallest things by saying that it could be worst than Watergate? Good times.
I think everyone with a brain would enjoy those "worse than watergate scandals" now than Joe in the White House
Remember when Obama was in office and the idiots at fake Fox News criticized him for eating a hamburger with mustard instead of ketchup?
@@paulmccarthy1527
I preferred when they criticized his spending habits.
And then the media itself did something infinitely worse than Watergate, they covered up the 2020 election rigging.
@@paulmccarthy1527
I read Obama's latest book to understand why people love this man so much, and was left scratching my head. He had radical socialist ideals, further exemplified in Biden. He ran the country underfoot with debt, and was a highly divisive president. His only claim to fame is that he was the first president of a certain skin colour. He is the reason why you vote for qualifications, not skin colour. Another career politician who was well spoken, but offered nothing of substance. I didn't buy the book, but if I did I'd use it to prop up my coffee table.
Obama has written 3 books in 4 years! People trip over themselves to praise this man and I don't get it.
All i know, Forrest Gump helped set the stage for the scandal to be discovered.
How?
Forrest Gump is a commie!
Those lights were keeping him awake for God's sake
fails
@@alonpeleg77 Ironically fighting against communists in Vietnam
What Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the whole Crossfire Hurricane thing was just as bad if not worse than this. Especially considering that they lied to the FISA court. The fact that not one indictment has come from this is sickening.
Okay are we not gonna talk about the fact that this FBI dude’s codename is “deep throat?”
Can you think of any better codename?
It wasn’t his FBI code name, it was what the media called him. It came from the title of a popular porn film of the time.
I was looking for this comment all video long
@@ravissary79 Nope, the film was released the same month as the break in. The name was given to Felt by the media kind of as a tongue-in-cheek. It was definitely a reference to the movie, which was huge at the time.
Who else thought of Gray Fox from Metal Gear?
Interesting fact, it’s actually because of Watergate that all documents and records from every administration are classified as public record and it is therefore mandatory for them to be included in all presidential libraries for public display.
Nixon tried and failed to prevent the Watergate tapes and other files from being put on display in his own library.
Yeah and I am guessing that Obama and other democrats put all their documents up for display without destroying or loosing them.
@@cyclone8974 I am guessing you are a Trump supporter who would like the Obama administration to be just as publicly foul as many of them GOPs from Grant to Trump.
Except it's always a negotiation with other presidents. LBJ has most of his papers locked up for like 75 years. FDR was smart, he never put anything on paper!
@@janofb I do not view anyone from an entire pessimistic viewpoint. Obama was a black man in a white house and just by virtue of his name his abilities were limited. His agenda had a chokehold on it to gain air. "STEALING a park"? The part that should be taken out of the equation is the "minority part". Chicago is dense and if he puts his "Presidential Center" in that area the Araricia will just have to come to a minority area to visit or not aka brilliant it reduces the minority part.
Obama care is Washington owned and Obama blamed. The inferior piece of legislation; which has been a long-term goal since the 60s, landed in our hands with causes and effects only Washington could political deliver.
The demorats will only release there criminal doings 50 years from now when all these evil politicians are dead and gone the people still alive will just look the other way this is why they are erasing history
Concise and informative. As a young boy, I remember this happening. Many adults said "many politicians did similar things, Nixon just got caught. "
And also wrong and biased. dont forget about that
You can’t be too conical. Just because other Politicians did similar, or maybe worse things, does not excuse Nixon. Especially if the supposed scandals you’re thinks of are just made up. A few recent examples include Benghazi with Clinton, or Fast and furious with Obama, or anything Hunter Biden related.
@@willhiggins9563 you're correct. I don't excuse anything Nixon did. My point was only to share what I was hearing at the time of Watergate. The fact others committed similar, or worse, crimes doesn't excuse them, either. I was only trying to add context for others, not excuse wrong doing by any politician.
@@willhiggins9563 Except none of those are made up. They all have strong supporting evidence, it's just that the media and the mainstream sources of information cover Democrats and come down hard on Republicans. People died because of Benghazi, no one died because of Watergate. It's an indisputable fact that Obama gave a stand down order and let the embassy fall.
@@therealhardrock Even Republicans politicians are calling out the Benghazi BS.
"History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right" George H.W. Bush
that’s such a bland quote lmao. like thanks for the obvious george bush that’s how history works
We're still waiting to hear what you did right, George Bush‼️
I will say though.... media back then wasn't quite as horrific as it is today. Journalists jobs were dependent on whether they could break a story, and if it was truthful. Nowadays you can say literally anything with no recourse
It was the same back then. Except back then, the media owned all the narratives. Now, counternarratives can get out through the internet.
@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 which they are trying very hard to clamp down on.
Not quite. See Rick Santorum's firing from cancer news network...
Sad but true!
It's actually pretty amazing how someone can watch this video, see how the speaker is clearly pushing a narrative and coloring events with his opinions, and still think that this video is giving an objective retelling of events.
I dont think Nixon was an innocent - he was a politician after all and when do ANY of them have clean hands - they've all pretty much sold their souls... I dont think that the "watergate scandal" was that much of a scandal, compared to many of the modern equivalents... such as "Russian Collusion" YEARS of BS that didnt do anything except waste money and steal time that should have been spent on the American people.
@@vonal67 It is true that Watergate had nothing on things that occurred in modern politics. Like how the 45th president had billions of dollars in assets, managed by his children. Where his children made hundreds of millions of dollars off of these business connections while he was in office, frequently with overseas operations and foreign purchases. This was in naked violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, but the 45th president was able to stonewall the court case so long that by the time it got to the Supreme Court he wasn't even the president anymore, so it got dismissed.
That was way worse than Watergate.
So hilariously ironic in a video about the evils of biased media! 😂
@@trillo3332 Like did they forget the fairness doctrine existed and that media was way more trusted. Back in the day liberals and conservatives were getting the same unbiased news unlike today. This is just plain misinformation by PragerU. The media isn’t like it was 50 years ago.
Nixons people were just doing what LBJs did to them in 1964 lol.
Hmmmmmm no.
It's only a crime when Republicans do it. FBI investigates people who trespass on capitol grounds but if you throw a frozen water bottle at chicago police, or a can of soup, or try to attack a DHS officer, no problem! Also, while I'm on the topic, I'm pretty sure the people wearing helmets with "trump" bumper stickers on them smashing windows at the capitol were antifa. Also, I find it odd that 10 seconds after Babbit was shot, capital police with ARs appear. Where did they magically come from? Also, who shot Babbit? Will Pelosi have an investigation on that?
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@Lucas Lombardo Lucas the mindless ... IS the sheep is bleating while he sees every other critter as sheep. that is so ridiculously funny.
@Lucas Lombardo www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/22/cia-fbi-spy-presidential-campaign-trump-goldwater-218415
It’s true. Johnson committed heinous crimes in the election of 1964. Johnson, in my opinion was worse than Nixon. Nixon merely tried to cover up the Watergate break in, he didn’t misuse a federal agency for political purposes like Johnson did.
3:17 "He didn't really engage"
except he actively tried covering it up tho?
This is pure propaganda, what do you expect?
They’re trying to make sure their audience is prepared for the mental gymnastics they will need to defend the Trump conviction
4:58?
Lyndon Johnson bugged Goldwater's plane and campaign office, and it was an open secret in Washington that he'd stolen his senate election in 1948, google "box 13 scandal." It was also an open secret that Kennedy had stolen 1960 from Nixon, he's been quoted as saying that his father asked him how many votes he would need because he wasn't going to pay for any more. The Watergate break in was mild compared to these charges, and was only important because the media made it important. True, Nixon covered it up, but it's puppy shit compared to what other presidents have done before and since that, and Nixon doesn't deserve to be labeled as the "crook" president. That's all this video is saying.
@@timkjar3989 I mean yeah, because this is the one where they had the evidence to prove it…he’s still a crook. He tried to cover it up as best he could (something this video skips over) and did plenty of other bad shit such as the war on drugs to eliminate political enemies and sabotaging vietnam peace negotiations. Ultimately, „Nixon“ and „Piece of sh*t“ should be conflated in the mind of everyone, and this Video defends the bastard in the most mindlessly propagandistic way possible.
younger generations need to know this because it directly relates to what they did to President Trump.
Nixon was a man of honor, Trump provoked his own supporters to storm the capitol building.
@@alec3000 People did something stupid and called a riot, the worst thing since 9-11, but burning down cities and watching whole neighborhood be bored up and having crime rises to numbers not seen in decades THAT is okay.
Personal responsibility is not allowed anymore and we have change the dictionary to make our point, that shows you didn't have a point to begin with.
@@marypetrie3513 that is a classic case of whataboutism. The BLM riots were bad yes, but we aren’t talking about BLM, we are talking about how the president of the USA egged on his supporters with a lie that the election was stolen, which caused them to storm the capitol building which killed 5 people and almost caused deaths of congresspeople. January 6th is very similar to the 1922 March on Rome
@@alec3000 how? What did he say?
Everything that happened to Trump was self inflicted.
Uhhhh ... is PragerU defending/justifying watergate??
Some measure of reappraisal is perhaps necessary when nearly every administration since (and hell, many before it) have engaged in just as bad, if not worse, scandals, so much so that they've become normalised. What Nixon's cronies did was bad... but it's not the ultimate act of political evil that's it been built up in the media as being.
Yea they are
☠️ same dude who started the war on drugs because hippies were anti war?? Prageru leaves so much out
Nixon's war on drugs started from Murphy's and Steele's 1971 report on Vietnam soldiers becoming addicted to heroine, Sammy Davis Jnr was asked to look into it during his Vietnam tour to entertain the troops. John Ehrlichman hated Nixon and came up with that hearsay comment in 1994, after Nixon died. In the states Dr. Jerome Jaffe was was into prevention and treatment (methadone clinics) rather than incarceration. He was working with Robert J. Brown and Congress of Racial Equality during that time. I could be wrong. Maybe if it was after the reaction from the Sammy Davis Jnr hug, but the War on drugs was before 1972.
@@thomaspgreen6302 "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities." - John Ehrlichman
@@bruv8668 I know that 1994 statement of Ehrlichman, but at the time most funding went to prevention and treatment. Nixon didn't pardon Ehrlichman. Nixon bringing in James Farmer, and later Robert J Brown and funding Floyd McKissick's Soul City Project 14.4 million and his work with CORE and EEOC, then to go after the community, makes no sense. MUHAMMAD Ali defended Nixon after Watergate, Robert J Brown spoke at his library. James Brown's interview on why he endorsed Nixon also brought up some points that would contradict his 1994 statement.
What’s that have to do with the scandal tho? Lol. You’re just mad because it didn’t include a detaail that would help make him more unpopular today & u dislike him. Unfortunately that wasn’t the intention of the video. Like the title says, it’s about “The Watergate Scandal” 🤦🏼♂️
Man some people are so ignorant they don’t even realize how ignorant they really are…
And then, a few years later, Nixon agreed to be interviewed by David Frost. On May 4th, 1977, the first part of the interviews were broadcast on national television. Over 45 million people tuned in to watch. It remains the largest TV audience of a political interview in history. Star Wars was released the same day
This true?
Close but no. Interviews were late March & April. There was 12 of them I think, running a couple a week. Star Wars was in late May.
@@fl8905 I meant when they started televising the tapes
@@fl8905 May 25th to be specific. I knew this had to be bull when I saw that. I may not know NIxon stuff but I know my Star Wars.
@@fl8905 I was elementary school age I remember seeing Star Wars in late June and the theater was packed.
Conclusion: absolute honesty steals the thunder of cloak and dagger media.
If Nixon was so honest, why did he freak out about those tapes?
That may have been true then, but nothing stole the thunder from the cloak and dagger media in 2020.
@@DarrenHughes-Hybrid we aren't honest enough yet, just like Nixon wasn't honest enough. We need to be hones about our own faults AND honest about the DNC's criminal proclivities.
@@willhiggins9563 Have you ever listened to them? Pretty raw stuff.
@@GentlemanJack295 What was the worst of it?
It’s very weird that we live in a society where people’s personal feelings toward someone such as envy and hatred can alter the future of nations
I know right?!? Sad but true!
Though shalt not covet
Wow This is the clearest I've heard it explained from elementary to college. Thank you.
Except they conveniently left out that Nixon tried to stop the investigation in the DOJ. There are tapes of this. He tried to obstruct justice. That is what actually sunk him in the end.
Except the video is lying by omission by leaving out that he deliberately tried covering it up lmao
yea because its inacurate though.
It's clear because he leaves out more relevant facts than he includes. This is NOT an accurate account of what happened.
I think it goes deeper than a partisan 5 minute video making you feel sorry for a crook like nixon lol
Very slick... the way you just gloss over how deeply unpopular that war was.
This video wasn't about the relative popularity of the war, it was about the media railroading Nixon.
@@panchorodriguez7246two sides to every story, bubba. Believe this crap if you want...
Just remember that this content is sponsored by people who really couldn't give two shits about anything except not paying taxes. The rest is just designed to sway your opinion and get you to vote against your own interests.
Watergate is biggest factor that help North Vietcong defeat Republic of South Vietnam,
And we will never forget this !
Yea sure, water gate is the reason we lost obviously not us burning every village raping Vietnam women half of the United States protesting the war because American teenagers were getting slaughtered weekly it was water gate yea great one
@@DJDDDog321 The Tet Offensive was also genius on the part of the vietcong which led to public opinion turning on the war
North Vietcong (NV) didn't defeat Republic of South Vietnam (SV).
First, the USA defeated SV (by murdering SV's president Diem).
Then, the USA sold out SV to NV (by breaking the Paris agreement promise, USA had teamed up with communist China to fight against the Soviet, they didn't need SV anymore).
So in conclusion, it's the Democrat party and the Deep State in USA that defeat SV.
The media sided with the communists and have been on their side ever since.
It's pretty simplistic to merely say "such-and-such president lost the war".
Presidents don't lose wars single-handedly. Entire bureacracies do, and sometimes they do it on a timescale of years - not in one stroke, but in a constant chain of tiny failures.
One good, reasonably neutral point of view on why US was so inefficient at fighting Viet Cong is "The Best and the Brightest" by David Halberstam.
If I'm to cut its version of why Vietnam was lost to one sentence, it's this:
fanatical anti-communism, like any other fanatical form of a warlike ideology, can cripple a bureaucracy's ability to make reasonable, pragmatic choices.
It's one thing to be pro-capitalism and pro-freedom, another to be anti-communist.
The first has a clear positive agenda, the second is intrinsically negative and poorly-defined, so it easily turns into a witch-hunt for anyone who is less fanatically anti-communist than you are.
So even if a functionary has good reasons to believe that the best course of action is establishing a ceasefire with communists and instead solving the economical problems that perpetuate the war, the threat of a witch-hunt causes him to censor himself.
It's kind of like the difference between being pro-diversity and being anti-white.
Thank you so much for this video.
I am a history teacher and have a few classes that deal with Europe in the early to mid 1900s
And propaganda was used to much (and so well) its hard for the students to understand it
This video is so "textbook propaganda" that I can use in class to show students how those with agendas (often quite sinister) can brainwash large segments of the population
Thank you so much PragerU
You are doing a tremendous service in preparing the next generation to be immune to evil organizations like yourself...
Lol when you said you were a history teacher and said you enjoyed this video I got a bit concerned there.
Another US History Teacher here. I love how you are using this with students, and just might steal your idea!
I remember the Watergate hearings well, even though as a mere teenager, I didn't understand most of what was going on. My father HATED John Sirica. He called Watergate a "witch hunt" and looking back, it all seems really familiar now.
deluded by PragerU into thinking Nixion was actually the good guy in watergate XD this shit is too funny
Hahhaha bro the PragerU historical revisionism is ANAZING. The guy resigned cos republicans started to agree to impeachment. This is all very easily researchable.
@@AlwaysAC ,
Did you expect the President of the Richard Nixon Foundation to admit that?
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The media is honestly a huge pain to deal with
Caught a lot of witches.
"East coast elite" *Went to private school, went to Harvard, parents were Ivy Leaguers*. Being an east coast elite isn't all that bad, Hugh Hewitt.
Your point?
@@panchorodriguez7246 Hugh Hewitt is an east coast elite
Good one, chap.
Perhaps "it takes one to know one" applies.
to be fair I doubt he wrote the script
Sounds familiar, history does repeat itself.
How so?
@@willhiggins9563 What they've been trying to do to Trump for 4 years, with a new conspiracy every year to get him out of office. Even while out of office they still refer to him with the "insurrection". Come on now.
@@spawnjg a lot of similarities between the media of then and now as well.
The “insurrection” is the Democrats’ Reichstag Fire.
@@jwil4286 Where's your evidence on that?
When Nixon was in power, the communist North Vietnamese were on the edge of defeat. His wartime tactics and competence were extraordinary. But when he resigned, the US military under Gerald Ford whom was close to the establishment and liberal elites were suddenly short on supplies. Air raids were delayed or put on hold and policies were inconsistent leading to the successful takeover of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
BS.
"The minor incident it was"? That is a bit short for one political party breaking into the office into their opponents parties office. If that is just politics as usual and all fair game then I am glad Dennis Prager didn't end up running for senate.
There is no evidence that Nixon ordered his political party or his staff to raid the DNC like you claimed.
What we do know however is that the people who owned the three three Nights ABC CBS and NBC didn't like him so they used the Watergate breakup to Destroy his presidency.
His Vice President Agnew called on the Networks for their bias against Republicans and he ended up himself being destroyed by the Press....
Hope they don’t try defending watergate
They may as well since the democrats have been doing worse for years.
John F. Kennedy said to the journalist Charles Bartlett said in April of 1963 "we haven't a prayer of prevailing [Vietnam] but I can't give up a piece of territory like that to the Communists and get the American people to reelect me" in the spring of 63 he told Mike Mansfield that the only reason he kept us in Vietnam was his stake in a sixty-four election he said "I can't pull out until 1965 until after I'm reelected."
@@cyclone8974 very cool whataboutism!
@MasterIronfist oh I’ll gladly say they are, all of them are snakes
Still don’t think “b-but democraps!!!” Is a good point to make
I was just talking to a man whose draft number was 63. He had his Army Induction Physical and never had to go to basic training because of Nixon policy that ended American
Military involvement in the Vietnam war. He would have gone into the Infantry but instead he lived a long life and has grandchildren. He has nothing but good things to say about Richard Nixon.
One ammendment I would make. From what I have read, Nixon's support in the the senate was not 'unsure'. He was told point-blank by the Republican leadership that he would lose an impeachment vote.
Barry Goldwater told him he was going to vote guilty, and disavowed him at once. Bear in mind that there were actual Democrats back then, so impeachment would’ve have been a dangerous action as it is today.
Technically it was removal or guilty vote. The House impeaches the Senate removed the potus with majority vote.
This shows the power the media has in making mole hills into Mt Everest.
This is hilarious because you are consuming media right now that’s telling you that a massive historical event was really just a mole hill and you’re just uncritically eating it right up.
Says the person communing propaganda media on this video
@@AlwaysAC I lived through the Watergate hearings and always knew it was much to do about nothing. Hunter’s laptop I would bet is much much bigger than Watergate.
@@1pt21jigawatt "Hunter’s laptop I would bet is much much bigger than Watergate."
Newsflash: Hunter Biden isn't president.
@@redlightmax talk about a non-sequitur. Who cares if Hunter isn’t the president. The issue is the magnitude of the scandal to which the laptop holds incriminating evidence to president Biden as well as Hunter.
"They're still uncomfortable wearing shoes". Reagan to Nixon
Dumb and Dumber.
LOL!
You know what Reagan said right before saying that right?
@@KiTheMC He said: "Damn 'em!", if I recall correctly.
@@herbertherbertic6223 and called them monkeys as well
So that's who deep throat was. After so many years, now I understand what solid snake was talking about.
I know right?!?
😂
This is an outstanding summary of Watergate.
It’s Prageru, I’d rather wait from the inevitable response videos there will come out in the next week. Bound to be more informative to.
"I am not a croissant." Oh wait, I think that was Biden when he visited France and tried to speak French...(ala John F Kennedy in Berlin)
Yeah, JFK tried to say, “Ich bin bei Berlin,” (I am with Berlin), but instead he said, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” (I am a jelly filled doughnut).
@@w-e-z-y5786 actually that’s wrong. While it is called a Berlin in most of Germany, Berliners are actually called Pfannkuchen in Berlin. He meant, and actually said Ich bin ein Berliner, I am a Berliner, showing his connection with Berlin and its people. He was not laughed at or ridiculed, but was given a thunderous applause by the crowd of West Berliners.
@@wheezy498 Exactly!
Biden can't speak English without screwing it up. The teleprompter is that guy's nemesis. He just can't get along with it no matter how hard he tries.
@@wheezy498 Pfannkuchen = pan cakes
But I don‘t live in Berlin…
The life lesson in all of this: It was not the fact that what happened at Watergate was the big issue, it was the fact that he tried to cover it up.
Hence, when you do something wrong and you know it, own it and whole heartedly apologize. Don't try and downplay or twist it some other way (manipulate). As my late grandmother would say: The truth always settles better than the lie, even if it's in the long run.
Problem was, Nixon was deeply paranoid of the communists in the government and press (rather rightly so too) using any little thing they could to try to bring him down. He ended up playing right into their hands. Then the Democrats used Watergate as a way to avoid honoring America's commitment to resupply South Vietnam's military. The North Vietnamese also saw Watergate as an opportunity to invade the South.
So in the end, "Deep Throat" is directly responsible for the massive loss of lives and freedom of the South Vietnamese people.
If he was so innocent, why did Gerald Ford give him a presidential pardon as soon as he took office?
Maybe to move on as a country. When have we seen a congress continue with a prosecution after a president has left office? hint: it wasn't that long ago.
A very clever hit piece on the media, pointing out that they have been this way for over 50 years
Excuse me, mr. Robby Noble..or should I call you Mr. Mass Media BOT BOi ?
Its not a "hit piece on the media".
It IS in FACT, an EXPOSURE of the communist party, operating in this country and around the world, as the "media".
Thought you'd slip that one around everyone, huh?
I lived through this period, and this is the first time I've ever heard the other side of the story. Very illuminating, and we can see how little things have changed in the meantime.
The other side said that he didn’t do anything wrong & wasn’t involved
Unironically do people not see this as propaganda?
I heard of this so many times, yet I actually have no idea what it is. Can't wait for this video
Dont watch prageru as an actual source of information, please
@@Tino262d why not?
@@Tino262d Well, to get information, you need a story from both sides of the spectrum, and then you isolate certain aspects, and then you get your info.
@@BIGAZZNATEDOG it’s literally thinly veiled capitalist propaganda they made a pro slavery video, a borderline nazi apologia video, and a video saying how fracking is good
If you want context on this video it’s probably going to be about the watergate scandal
Mark Felt probably thought his nickname was so cool .... 😂
Cough - sword swallower - cough.
Something you dont learn in high school.
That's because we live in the world of the left. And indoctrination is the only education our children receive today.
@@-Ordinary-Average-Guy depends where you live.
Turns out in high school it’s considered a conflict of interest to learn about watergate from the literal president of the Richard Nixon foundation
@Jonathan Devereaux it’s for effect; you don’t need to patronize me on basic grammar
@@-Ordinary-Average-Guy - Like the ideas of the left are completely evil
Of course he was a flawed man (who isn't?) but what strikes me was his profound analysis of politics and how articulate he was in expressing himself. I speak of the many interviews he did as a private citizen, easily found on RUclips. I already was aware of this but he was not the demon the media and historians continue to describe him to be.
You're absolutely right. Nixon wasn't so much a villain IMO as he was a tragic hero. He did a lot of great things for the country, and in terms of his actual policy achievements (especially in his first term), he was actually one of our better presidents. I expect as the Baby Boomers and others who are old enough to remember Nixon's presidency die off, we will start to see younger historians (such as in my generation) start to reassess his legacy and perhaps give him the fair shake he was denied during his lifetime and in death continues to be denied by the current generation of historians and journalists. Perhaps a Greek or Shakespearean tragedy about his political career from the Hiss case to the resignation would be a good start.
That said, I think this video seems to ignore the fact that while Nixon did not have any personal involvement in the break-in, he did participate in the coverup, so he wasn't entirely innocent.
Yup. "Flawed" as on starting the endless war on drugs just so he could lock up black people.
@@Hughes81 That is an utter lie. Nixon was a consistent and outspoken supporter of civil rights throughout his political career,
@@thoorlyehu360 John Ehrlichman was one advisor who was convicted of lying under oath. I wouldn't necessarily trust his claims.
@@hotwax9376 😂😂😂 Oh COME ON! How is it an utter lie when an ex-Nixon aid literally said the specific reasoning for the war on drugs himself. He wanted to lock up hippies and POC so they can't vote. When given facts, you people ALWAYS deflect and move the goalpost without failure. 100% of the time.
I find it funny that you portray the issue like getting caught and the public view of the issue is the problem instead of acts of Nixon and his suboridinstes through the whole thing. His impeachment would have been 100% warranted based on his own actions.
I got this video as an ad, and I 100% came here to say this. This video creates a false narrative that "the media" fabricated a scandal, when Nixon's well-documented and verifiable attempts to cover-up the break-in constituted obstruction of justice, which is an impeachable offense.
The nickname “deep throat” definitely didn’t age well...
Actually, the movie came out in 1972. It was picked as his nickname BECAUSE of the movie.
Am I the only one who see the issue of using "Deep Throat" as a code name for an FBI agent?
Nope, I thought so too!
You do know Deep Throat was a well known porno movie that came out at the same time in 1972.
Now I see why they don't teach this in schools
That's because most of what Hugh Hewitt say's is a lie.
Only in America. In other nations, those journalists would have quietly disappeared, and all the admin leakers fired and/or threatened.
Wow! This explains the very beginning of the mess that we are experiencing in 2023.
I love this guy's voice!
yea listen to death grips, they sound equally pleasing, its a true american blues&country band that ridicules those leftists.
So Trump was Nixon 2.0 except this time they didn't even have a petty break in.
Insurrection
@@tehnoobisback Can you overthrow the government with
@@Gromitz101 there were thousands of people at the capitol
@@thedemonhater7748 there were thousands at the speech, and more than a mile away was
@@tehnoobisback Ah yes, the insurrection where nobody brought weapons and the only person wounded was murdered by police through a door.
This one will be amazing!
Hello Brazilian pal 🇧🇷🇧🇷
@@molom1741 Hello, my friend! It is an immense pleasure to fight for freedom alongside you guys!
No it won’t
@@Gothams_Arkham_Knight speak for yourself 😁
@@joaosilveira6861 Yeah, that’s what I did.
Nixon and the Media suck. Nixon isn't some poor fella that needs our sympathy.
And now we know the rest of the story.
Ironic you use that phrase given how anti-Nixon Cronkite was.
@@hotwax9376 You're thinking of the commentator, PAUL HARVEY.
Cronkite's phrase was, "...and that's the way it is..."
@@lawr5764 OK, thanks for setting me straight.
@@lawr5764 ... so now you know...
Well this was informative I had no idea Nixon was essentially treated like crap by the media kinda like Trump.
He wasn’t PragerU is literal propaganda
@@zachbattack okay commie
@@EmperorHelix u republicans just call us commies. What do we call u guys
Maybe fascists
@@zachbattack CNN is true propaganda they make up shit and people like you believe it
Topics like this are why even though I'd argue my public education wasnt as nearly as politically biased as it is now, it was still sure as hell biased.
That's not even close to the story that I heard in history. The most unfortunate thing though is that this shows just another example where the right and left cannot agree upon the reality of basic historical events that occurred. Polarization is only made worse when we exist in different realities.
I’d argue that like most things about my history class, they were summed up quick. It’s like giving a half truth, only part of the truth and leaving the huge amount information to give you a clear opinion off of the history. While in college I decided to look back at all the topics I learned in my US history class and research more details. A lot of details were left out and some contradicted. It is no lie to say that historians can have a bias on presenting information.
the version of events i was taught in school differes from a 5 minuete youtube video, therefore my education must have been biased
I went to high school in the early to mid 90s and it WAS politically biased. I was not taught anything about the Vietnam War. It was still and always will be a taboo subject. Trust me, these "schools" will now cover up the Holocaust and try to blame Trump for it. That's how ridiculous they are.
@@largol33t1 From where I went to school we were only biased in nationalism. We were taught nationalism and showed flaws of every president or most of them at least, it was anti communist, pro America and democracy and capitalism. I don’t understand where you’re coming from on this. Modern schools don’t even get to 2017 history in most cases.
Most of history of the 20th century you have to lived through it to really know the story.
Hugh Hewitt is a good historical fiction author. Do one on an alternate reality Vietnam war next.
Prageru, how to whitewash a crime
Yeah so just skip over the part where he participated in criminal activity. Cool take bro.
but look, if they left that in, people would know history and dislike nixon. noboby wants that.
shhh they are trying to make nixon look good so the trump comparisons arent as bad
I have lived 15 years and have never heard of this before this video. Glad PragerU is doing stuff like this
Yea spreading capitalist propaganda
@Jonathan Devereaux wdym spreading lmao
this video leaves out some pretty key info about Nixon and Watergate, most obviously that Nixon is on record discussing his involvement in the cover up which rightfully should have gotten him removed from office
@@artirony410 don’t bother explaining to these guys you can convince them to burn the American flag to stop communism
Nixon was the greatest person to be the president during the Cold War
What about Eisenhower?
@@redblaze8700 Eisenhower is my favorite president. I just think détente was handled better by Reagan.
“I’m not a crook”
The media can make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent- Malcolm X (paraphrased)
no way prageru viewers are quoting malcolm x lmao, he was a leftist.
@@ryanogrady3809 - Actually he didn't like both main parties. But he did say white liberals exploit blacks for power.
@Forever Forward - He said both parties Dems and GOP want power. But the white liberals exploit blacks to get power.
@Forever Forward - *LMAO*
@Forever Forward - Liberals are associate with the Dem party. Conservatives are GOP.
PragerU when my parents walk in: 3:53
I never learned any of this on any television show or school book growing up
Because it’s ahistorical nonsense
Yeah, largely because it didn't play out that way, He "forgot" to mention a few facts (as is SO very common for this channel for some reason.) Like that Nixon tried to bribe people to be quiet. Or that he tried like hell to bury evidence. Or the fact that Republican judges he appointed were set to rule against him (which is why he didn't bother fighting in the end - when your own appointees are going to rule against you, you're done).
He also fails to mention how hard the media came after Clinton. The very same liberal elite media that hated Nixon apparently hated Clinton to. (Or maybe they were just doing their jobs?)
If you're coming here for historically accurate facts, you have chosen poorly. Very poorly.
Jud, everything Hewitt says (well, almost everything) is true, but he elides so much that what you're left with is simply BS. Please don't take this video to be your course in Watergatology; it is just really, really bad reporting.
Did you think maybe there's a reason for that, my dude? Like the fact that your listening to a far-right fringe RUclips channel...
Because it's a bunch of horse shit. Whenever PragerU makes a statement it is safe to assume to opposite is true 90% of the time.
Is this video seriously trying to make Nixon look innocent 😂🤣.. I've seen it ALL
@@emwk3qdmmfm
The British Empire's short history of the colonial period.
1807 - *Britain passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, outlawing the British Atlantic slave trade.*
1833 - *Britain passes the Abolition of Slavery Act, ordering gradual abolition of slavery in all British colonies. Plantation owners in the West Indies receive 20 million pounds in compensation*
- *Great Britain and Spain sign a treaty prohibiting the slave trade*
- *Britain places a naval squadron off the West African coast to enforce the ban on slave trading*
1823 - *Britain's Anti-Slavery Society formed. Members include William Wilberforce*
The guy who killed the republican party, but gave me a political home in 1971, the year the libertarian party was formed, although I wouldn't be born til 7 years later
@Loopy I'm thinking there won't be an answer. The statement is really bad virtue signaling, but nothing new right.
@Loopy authoritarianism, abolishment of the gold standard, leading to hyper inflation, over governance, leading to massive spending of taxpayers money, look at the spending on the DEA budget alone - not to mention the drug war and the DEA are even bigger failures than the TSA, who has yet to stop a single act of terror, Reagan went on to do well with the economy, but it was Milton Friedman that won the Nobel prize for economics, not Reagan!
@@cj1608 how am I virtue signaling if one of the best points of having Trump as president, was more deregulation, better foreign policy, and a better economy? Neoconservatism is almost a big of a joke as neoliberalism
@@seanoleary4374 I misunderstood your statement about the death of the Republican Party. There are those who will advocate for a democracy, or even an oligarchy, by introducing no other choice.
@@cj1608 true, we screwed up big time in 08! Can you even imagine how far ahead we would be even if Ron Paul had been in just one term? People like him and his son, Congressman Massive, and to a somewhat lesser extent, my US senator, Tom Cotton, are the reason I stay registered as a Republican, not a fan of government presence in every aspect of my life, particularly when they want my money!
I’ve been short of shouting from the rooftops that Nixon did nothing wrong and watergate was nothing compared to what we’re seeing today.
These type of vids may draw less clicks than "dems say white man bad", but they are still the best prageru has to offer. Very concrete and tangible.
Wow, that is a really great attempt to rewrite history.
like every prageru video lol
Not the best President, but certainly far from terrible. He was a stand-up man, in my opinion.
Except for the whole lying thing, trying to buy off witnesses, and burying evidence. Other than that, yes Nixon was a stand-up guy.
@@Sethsters Not buying it. That's literally what ever Democrat says about every other Republican.
Hey! It's the guy that makes Mr. Prager tell embarrassing stories on the fireside chat! More Hugh Hewitt on fireside chat please! Everyone enjoys Denis Prager not being embarrassed about embarrassing things!
Yeah, it was totally the media’s fault, not Nixon for obsessively recording himself talking about committing crimes.
He totally didn’t implicate himself with his own paranoia and general shittiness.
It was good the Clinton's learned from Nixon then huh?
@@NeganJeff Yeah, it's pretty wild that they associated themselves with a blood-soaked man like Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
As a Republican, I agree with that. I respect Nixon more than many for his accomplishments but his paranoia and corruption were shown with Watergate. He surely made things worse for himself by trying to cover it up.
An excellent, succinct job of explaining Watergate. Thumbs UP.
All else aside, having 'deep throat' as your code name couldn't have been random.
Truth revealed ... finally!
In my college years they praised Nixon as if he was one of the best presidents. I kept hearing in classes he had a great foreign policy, and passed sweeping environmental reforms such as establishing the EPA, then there’s watergate and the drug war. It’s like he took two steps forward and tree back.
This is unbelievably distorted.
I lived through the scandal, followed it every day on the news, read books about it afterwards, and all that. I know what happened. But anyone too young to have memories of it will come away from this video with a horribly incorrect impression of the scandal. Mind you, Hewitt cleverly is truthful in almost everything he says here. But his choice of facts to reveal, and his choice of fact to exclude, and his failure to acknowledge some things that are uncertain, will leave a young person hopelessly ignorant of this important piece of history.
This has diminished the high esteem I had for Prager U. I often feel like I *learn* from Prager U videos, but if I'm leaarning about something I don't actually know about, how do I now know whether or not I can believe Prager U anymore? This video should be taken down as a disservice to your viewers.
They are a joke, some videos just have a more conservative view on issues (which is fine), and then they put shit like this.
@UCuLtuHpEAm6Ek9E9WjqHaLA, some videos of them are fine, while most are as you said "american judeo-christian centric conservative propaganda."
so much of what they say is complete bs, there are so many videos on youtube dissecting the propaganda prageru feeds its audience and how they twist history to serve their agenda.
@@gigigrass6050 I get they want to be some kind of conservative beacon in a world where the popular ideas are left leaning but what makes them think that some of the crap they put out is going to make them look reasonable? I guess whatever their reasoning is I’d be surprised.
You'll notice that Old Graybeard won't actually name any of the facts he claims Hewitt excluded, but then...why would he want to prove Hewitt's point?
Bruh please dont tell me you guys are going to defend him😂
Nixon did nothing wrong!
Yeah sure because no definite proof of Nixon being involved = involved?
HRC was involved in that too~!
She was one of those lawyers of the DOJ at the time~!
You know how right wing all lives matter like to blow police brutality by asking, "Did he Break the law, and is he a criminal?" I'm going to use that card here. The media might have made Nixon to be a worse guy than he was, but the bottom line is he did break the law, therefore, he is a criminal. It can't be both ways where black people deserve to be beat, killed, and prosecuted for breaking little laws, but justice for Nixon is ok because he broke a little crime. It's a different scenario, but the same exact context
So this is where we messed up... a shame I wasn’t taught this in school
Yes. I wonder why that was. (I was young around this time to and every teacher was very anti-Nixon. I doubt they would have taught the truth even if it had been well known back then.)
@@thoorlyehu360 The good reason he didn't run for president again is called "term limits".
@@thoorlyehu360 Maybe if Nixon had committed sex offenses as Clinton and refused to resign...oh wait Nixon was Republican and didn't have the media circling the wagons as they did for Clinton.
@@enriquemorales4859 - His party lost in a landslide after the scandal left them in disarray
Man I'm really hoping they don't try to whitewash Watergate.
of course they are because they need to in order to maintain their esthetic
@Lucas Lombardo It’s kinda odd considering they have another video where they talk about how the civil war was about slavery.
@@benawesomebw1197 hey even a broken clock is right twice a day
@@jloiben12 they tried to whitewash robert e lee tho so nixon is pretty tame in term of crime but managing to make people believe a event that happened not so long ago been nothing is maddening. imagine in germany prageru made a video like this defending hitler
@@pierreprtn4059
Don’t worry. They are building up to the “Hitler was right” video. Candace will be their speaker for that one but they have to lay the groundwork first
History is always more nuanced than we think.
Which you can't get in five minutes and fifty-five seconds.
Nixon was actively involved in the coverup. This video conveniently forgets that fact lmao
^ Two lefties covering their ears whilst going "lah lah lah" XD.
@@jimtaylor294 He said, disingenuously, in the comments of a youtube channel famous for going "lah lah lah" while covering their ears
^ I clearly struck a nerve XD.
I'm a rock hard conservative, but I think Trump is a buffoon. Understand why many find him appealing though.
sad part is Nixon did allot of good things and they will forever be lost..
They'll be lost only to those incapable of objective reason which, sadly, is those responsible for electing the most idiotic president we've ever had (biden).
@@panchorodriguez7246 you’ve never heard of trump or jackson
@@eldritchmosaic9124 I can't speak to Jackson's competence. Trump, on the other hand, will likely go down as the most effective president we've ever had. Oh, I have no doubt that it won't happen for many years, not with the current batch of indoctrinated folks making their way out into the world. As they get older, though, and gain some experience with life, they, like the majority of the rest of us, will come to understand that their view of the world has changed. As has been said before, by people smarter than I, the young and inexperienced tend toward the left. Life experience, however, will tend to draw them toward a more conservative mindset. Not all of them will migrate, to be sure, but those with the ability to think for themselves will undoubtedly come around, and when they do, they will start to appreciate Donald Trump for the patriot that he is. As far as biden, pelosi, and the rest? Nothing but a bunch of opportunistic leeches.
Well there was also the fact that he aggressively bombed Cambodia without congress’ knowledge or approval.
Harry Tinsley Nixon Ordered The US ARMY To INVADE LAOS And CAMBODIA, To DESTROY THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL Going Through Laos And Cambodia Which WAS USED BY NORTH VIETNAM TO SUPPLY THE CAMPAIGN! That As Well AS OTHER SUCCESSES RESULTED IN A DECISIVE VICTORY FOR US AND SOUTH VIETNAM, The VIETNAM WAR OFFICIALLY ENDED IN 1973 WITH THE PARIS PEACE ACCORDS. IN THE TERMS OF THE PARIS PEACE ACCORDS US IS REQUIRED TO REPLACE THEIR WEAPONRY "A BULLET FOR A BULLET" EVERYTHING LOST REPLACEMENT, THEN THINGS FELL APART IN NOVEMBER 1974 DEMOCRATS GAIN A MAJORITY IN CONGRESS THEY USED THEIR POSITION TO DENY THEY AID TO SOUTH VIETNAM! ON APRIL 10TH 1975 PRESIDENT GERALD FORD BEGGED THE CONGRESS TO FOLLOW THE TERMS OF THE PARIS PEACE ACCORDS, BUT AS PRESIDENT FORD DELIVERED HIS SPEECH MANY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS WALKED OUT. MANY OF THEM HAD AN INVESTED INTEREST IN AMERICAS FAILURE IN VIETNAM, THEY HAD PARTICIPATED IN PROTESTS AGAINST THE WAR FOR MANY YEARS! BECAUSE OF THE DEMOCRATS SELFISH DECISION SOUTH VIETNAM WAS UNDER ILLEGAL OCCUPATION By NORTH VIETNAM In LATE APRIL 1975, AND IT CONTINUES TO BE UNDER ILLEGAL OCCUPATION TO THIS DAY THANKS DEMOCRATS!
Watergate also brought us Chuck Colson. Thank God for Chuck Colson.
Fun Fact: My birthday is August 9th, 1974. Didn't realize that my DOB was the same day that Nixon resigned until I watched this video. Weird.
Thanks PragerU! I didn't know ANY of this!
Scam company sadly!
@@TheHQZombieWhat do you mean by that? how did you come to that conclusion?
@Lucas Lombardo I do not know.
@Stompy unrelated and that doesn't mean he is any less right in terms of biased "anti media, our peddling is better!" garbage
What a coincidence, my ex-girlfriend had the nick name Deep throat
I was a docent at the Nixon Birthplace for 9 years. The Watergate exhibit and the Elvis exhibit were the biggest attractions for visitors.
Looking back, if America should fall someday, it started around that era, the era of television. Nixon had more political ingenuity than most of his contemporary peers, but was dragged out of office by these lousy media and power seeking political opponents. Anti war movement was also a result of such, where a leverage of the Cold War and a national security issue was treated as a playground for protestors who couldn’t understand the brutal nature of war to demonstrate their moral superiority.
Even back when Kennedy and Nixon ran against each other, it was the television and the media that made a huge impact on the outcome. The more media corporations control public opinions, the less serious politics becomes, and the easier it gets for business elites and politicians to manipulate. That is exactly how a masculine republic turns into a feminine democracy.
Thank you, PragerU for bringing light on a subject I was kept in the dark about for decades. My trust in the mass media should not have fallen lower seeing as how low it was already, but somehow it has with this new information.
How?
Known as "deep throat" 😂😂😂
This is a sorry excuse for a summary of Watergate. It plays right into Nixon's persecution complex, portraying him as a victim of a vindictive media, rather than a man who felt the Presidency was above the law.
There's a very clear bias towards Nixon and against the investigators
Instead of explaning the facts that are out ther, they emphasise on a "Media vs Nixon" narrative, finding excuses for Nixon every step fo the way. Sad
You left out the part where Nixon had a witness admided into an insane asylum