Cable or satellite provider. Authors and authors and journalists who covered the watergate scandal in the 1970s met recently to talk about the era and how it compares to todays Political Climate regarding the russia investigation, the news media and the publics view of government. Hosted by slate media, this is one hour and a half. [applause] leon hey, everybody. [applause] leon thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Is my mic awake . Great. We are here about a week and a half after the show ended, season one ended, and i think none of us at slate assumed or could have guessed we would be talking about season one and planning season two. Season two of slow burn so thank you to all of you. [applause] for being here, but o listening to the show. Leon for being here, but also listening to the show. It is really a dream to be here in the Watergate Hotel with all of you. We have got a great show tonight, our first live show. We have a fantastic lineup of guests who i now want to
None of us at slate assumed, could have guessed we will be talking about it season one and we would be planning season two. Thank you to all of you. Thank you to the slate plus. Embers who are here i dream to be here in the Watergate Hotel with all of you. We have got a great show tonight, our first live show. We have a fantastic lineup of guests. I want to introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew, to my left. [applause] leon she covered the watergate scandal as it was unfolding. It was covered in the book washington journal. To my right, dick cavett. [applause] he hosted the bi of the show the dick cavett on abc between 1968 and 1974. In the months following watergate, he interviewed a number of key figures in the scandal. Later he broadcasted an entire episode from the watergate room. Dick true. True enough. Leon we have susan glasser. [applause] leon she is an Affairs Columnist for politico. Previously she was the editor of politico and political magazine. A
In this complex we have notable residents such as ruth vader ginsbering, bob and elizabeth dole, plusego domingo because of its vicinity to the kennedy center, and it opened in 1967. In 1967 a famous architect decided to mixup washington, d. C. As this stately federal architecture and do something called avantegarde. And it started by making no right angles and hugging the curvature of the potomac, and it was very jetssonslike. And that started it. And with great media midcentury history is becoming cool again. So we had this fundamental challenge. Do we embrace this as a theme park and embrace this scandal . Do we relive its original heyday . It was 1967, five years young when this scandal happened. But what people dont realize is Ronald Reagan had lavish birthday parties here. Like the invention of the first Michelin Chef so people are nodding. So theres a lot of nostalgia here. Theres so many generations i see. And what we noticed once we opened is people started saying last time i
Covered the watergate scandal in the 1970s met recently to talk about the era and how it compares to todays Political Climate regarding the Russian Investigation, the news media and the publics view of government. Media, this is one hour and a half. [applause] hey, everybody. [applause] thank you for being here. Can everybody hear me . Great. We are here about a week and a half after the show ended, season one ended, and i think assumed orat slate could have guessed we would be talking about season one and planning season two. Thank you to all of you. [applause] for being here, but also listening to the show. It is really a dream to be here in the Watergate Hotel with all of you. We have got a great show tonight, our first live show. We have a fantastic lineup of guests. I want to introduce them without clearing my throat anymore. Elizabeth drew, to my left. She covered the watergate scandal as it was unfolding. In the book that washington journal in the book washington journal. To my
J edgar hoover. Two images come to mind. The first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. Targeting communists and leftists. Using his files to get his way with politicians. Image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. One of those is verifiable. The other is not. An irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. They capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. The fbis preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. The fact of the matter is we dont know. We cannot know what his sexuality was. Unless were willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. Not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the fbi targeted gays fo