The Lessons of Watergate

The Political Scene | The New Yorker | Mar 2, 2017

This week, the Trump Administration was again besieged by allegations of inappropriate contact with Russian officials during their Presidential campaign. Thomas Mallon, the author of the best-selling novel “Watergate,” joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what Trump could learn from Nixon’s attempted cover-up of the 1972 break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

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