My Watergate Day

John and Maureen Dean at the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 1973.

The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is, I suppose, a good time to mention the day I spent with John Dean. As president of the college’s so-called Economics Society, I sponsored Dean for a campus lecture.

A previous guest speaker had been Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, but what did John Dean have to do with Economics? Nothing directly, but the faculty advisor, Dr. Darrow, was hot to talk with Dean.

It was a very interesting day, and a very long day. I have a newspaper clipping somewhere about Dean’s talk that includes a photo of him that I arranged to have taken. If I find it I’ll post a scan and have a bit more to say.

Colbert Clips

Rather than mentioning that Lauren Boebert has never been a prostitute, and that she didn’t have two abortions, Stephen Colbert explores Lauren’s deep and abiding faith in God and Guns.

And here we see why Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks has been absent from the Playtone Records station wagon. He’s been canoodling with Colbert!

From MAD to Watergate

In celebration — if that’s the right word — of the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, the Washington Post features eight cartoons, including this Time magazine cover by Jack Davis.

From the Washington Post: In Davis’s Time cover, the conspirators encircling Nixon are, clockwise from upper left: James McCord, Jeb Magruder, H.R. Haldeman, John Dean, John Mitchell and Maurice Stans. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine; Estate of Jack Davis 1973)

An iconic Davis magazine cover — rendered for Time in April 1973 beneath the headline “Watergate Breaks Wide Open,” and now in the Portrait Gallery’s exhibit — imagines a circle of conspirators ensnared in its tools of taping and surveillance, each finger-pointing at someone else. The art nods to an 1871 cartoon by Thomas Nast, who was skewering the fiscal chicanery of William “Boss” Tweed’s corrupt Tammany Hall political machine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/06/16/cartoons-watergate-nixon-herblock/