I miss Watergate, writes phillipstribune. I miss the hearings, so soothingly devoted to protocol, so revealing in their honest and fully bipartisan effort to ferret out the chief weasels. The patience. The results.
After a long saga marred by the Watergate scandal, then-President Richard Nixon addressed Americans through the airwaves on Aug. 8, 1974, and stated his intention to resign.
My father, who died earlier this month, expressed a political opinion only occasionally. We watched a lot of movies together in the ‘70s — comedies, dramas, bleak, paranoid conspiracy thrillers, including the occasional dark gem, “Chinatown” or “The Conversation.” There was somethingthose movies — a suspicion and a vibe that felt eerie, sensible and right, just as the Watergate hearings felt sensible and right.
The Jan. 6 hearings have this in common with the Watergate hearings: They’re procedurals, and we love a courtroom drama, even one not taking place in an actual courtroom.
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