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Watergates and Steps of London

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21497) • London, England 21 Jul 22

I believe @RasmaSandra (55471) wrote about the York Watergate, in London, some time ago. I thought I’d expand on it and two other features that are the survivors of a once thriving waterfront along the Thames, that faded with the...

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"Monumental, Catastrophic Failure of Leadership"

Jo Miller @pjmurphy (2498) • United States 17 Sep 20

I was just asking recently, "Where are Woodard and Bernstein when you need them?" And then Bob Woodard showed up with his new book Rage. Not only that but hours and hours of tape with the President. "Bigger than the Nixon...

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Did You Know: U.S. President

Bensen32 @Bensen32 (28658) • United States 8 Aug 19

Did You Know, today 8 August 1974 was the day that the 37th President of the United States of America announced his resignation? Richard Nixon resigned due to the Watergate Scandal. On 17 June 1972, five men, including a...

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Egregious A Word That Has Reversed Its Meaning

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 16 Aug 18

Barely a news report about Donald Trump goes by without the reporters using the word egregious. From barely seeing the word at all, I find it now turns up several times a day. The odd part about it is the word has come to mean...

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Diary Saturday 2nd July 2016

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 3 Jul 16

I took part in an annual pub crawl treasure hunt today, called The Independents Day Treasure Hunt in celebration of free-house independent bars, with a name that puns the pending US Independence Day July 4th celebrations. As the...

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Movie review – Lovelace

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Sep 15

Spoiler alerts A 2013 movie about the sad life of Linda Lovelace, star of the notorious 1972 erotic movie, Deep Throat, and her later fall from grace. The story is given twice, first revelling in her success, rebellion against...

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I bet you missed this one yesterday.

thegreatdebater @thegreatdebater (7316) • United States 25 Feb 10

Yesterday while congress was questioning Fed head Ben Bernanke he was ask an off the wall question by Ron Paul. We all know that Paul hates the fed, and would love to see them eliminated. He asked Mr. Bernanke about money that...

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What is the Watergate scandal about?

ronaldinu @ronaldinu (12422) • Malta 6 Jan 09

Why is the Watergate scandal so important in American politics that it is mentioned quite often in movies? What was it all about? Why Nixon had to resign because of this scandal? As American politics is foreign to me, I find it...

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was gerald ford right in forgiving nixon?

scorpius @scorpius (1792) • India 30 Dec 06

do you thnk that gerald ford was right in forgiving nixon for the "watergate affair".i think that dirty politics was involved and that it was a case of one hand washing the other pr in this case donkey washing the elephants...

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