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So much about the Watergate section that applies to today it's insane.

I'm finding this collection wildly uneven. Onward.

"The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it." -Hunter Thompson, 54 years ago. Timely as hell.

By the time I pick this up a bedtime I nod off, and the McGovern section seems to be taking me days to get through.

We had a sadistic gym teacher back in '72 who loved to wallop and bruise and break our little bones in dodgeball asking our class to divide up between those who preferred McGovern and those who supported Nixon, and most of the class went for Nixon and only a handful opted for McGovern. A sign of things. I might have cowarded out and got on the Nixon side and I admired the brave McGovern kids. Sick Repub bastard.