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And, yes, I DO take it personally: Republican lesson from Watergate
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Thursday, June 02, 2005

Republican lesson from Watergate

and they learned it well... thanks to robert parry from consortium news...

[T]he lesson learned by the Republicans [from the Watergate scandal] was the need to intimidate freewheeling journalists as much as possible and to make sure editors grant them little leeway in pursuing a politically sensitive story that could harm the conservative cause.

When I interviewed Spencer Oliver [R. Spencer Oliver, a Watergate-era Democratic staffer] in 1992, he told me, “What [the Republicans] learned from Watergate was not ‘don’t do it,’ but ‘cover it up more effectively.’ They have learned that they have to frustrate congressional oversight and press scrutiny in a way that will avoid another major scandal.”

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