More Watergate In Which To Wallow

In 1975, Richard M. Nixon (aka "Disgraced ex-president Richard M. Nixon) gave a long, under-oath testimony in matters relating to Watergate. The transcripts were sealed but now they're unsealed. Yesterday, they became available online. You haven't heard of any bombshells yet because, I would imagine, researchers are still wading through them. There's an awful lot and from my first looks at it, I'd say you have to be well-versed in that case and its history to understand all of it. I await the analysis of those who know more about this stuff than I do.

Also, the Nixon Library has online a new batch of Nixon's dictabelts. A dictabelt was like an audio tape. Nixon had a little machine into which he could dictate (hence the name) his recollections or orders. The newly-released ones, which I have yet to listen to, were done in 1970 and they give Nixon's version of a surreal-sounding visit he paid in the early morning hours of May 9 to the Lincoln Memorial. Anti-war protesters were camped there and for some reason, Nixon paid them an unannounced visit and…well, some say he was testing out a line of reasoning he hoped to use in public speeches. Others say he was trying to understand what was motivating the protesters. Whatever it was, we now have his recollections, plus other comments he made about the peace movement of the day. I can't wait to hear how much of it would also apply to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.