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Watergate 50 Years Later

Watergate 50 Years Later

Lectures in History

June 19, 20221h 4m

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Show Notes

American University professor Joseph Campbell taught a class about the 1972 Watergate scandal and, what he calls, “the myth of heroic journalism.” He argued that the unraveling of the Watergate scandal was done by Congress and multiple federal agencies and that Richard Nixon’s presidency was not brought down solely by the Washington Post’s reporting.

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