Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History
Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History(2003) This 2-hour PBS special is a fascinating retrospective look at Watergate. The in-depth interviews with such participants as John Dean, Jeb Magruder, counsel Sam Dash, and The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward provide insights and some answers to dangling aspects of the Discovery Channel trilogy. Magruder provides the ‘smoking gun’ that implicates President Nixon in the break in. According to Magruder, he was in CREEP head Mitchell’s office when they were discussing a list of ‘targets’ submitted by Gordon Liddy. On the proposed bugging of Larry O’Brien, chairman of the Democratic national headquarters, Magruder states that he was present when Mitchell received specific instructions from Nixon to bug O’Brien.
