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Nixon is in trouble.
For Watergate, you say, but aha!
I love it so much.
His show ran for over 20 years!
And yet, who made it into the history books?
Douglas tells Martha shes the first person to publicly accuse the president of being responsible for the Watergate break-in.
Martha is pretty sure she wont be the last.
Amid all this scandal-focused scuttlebutt, Nixon wins the election by an absolutely thunderous landslide.
In the course of talking to Winnie about the book, Martha mentions Dorothy Hunts plane crashing.
But back to the Watergate investigation.
Liddy and McCord are at their sentencing hearing when the judge brings forward a letter from McCord.
This causes Liddy to freak out and have a go at jump at McCord.
McCord was going to crack, Liddy!
The signs were all there!
Another woman shows up on the show!
Oh, shes a secretary.
Oh, shes John Mitchells secretary (played by Anne Dudek!).
Oh, she hits on him.
Anne Dudek deserves better!
She played cutthroat bitch onHouse(a.k.a.
You know, I gave some critiques, but this is major points to the show right here.
Every show should have a Perd Hapley cameo.
John Dean and Mo get married!
Then their honeymoon gets canceled because of the burgeoning scandal.
Dean meets Haldeman in the latters office.
Haldeman has two reasons for this meeting.
So … Ive heard of Camp David.
And I know things havehappenedthere (see: Camp David Accords).
But it sounds like a Jewish day camp, and I do not know what actually happens there.
So I looked it up!
Nixon paved over the nature trails (you started the EPA, sir!
Whatre you doing!)
that Reagan then had converted back so he could ride horses and feel like a cowboy.
The official website refers to it as the Presidents country residence.
Theres a main presidential cabin, guest cabins, and a golf course.
I encourage you to look at photosbecause they are terrible.
It looks like the retreat center my Christian high school went to every fall.
But Mo is so excited!
John Dean is so excited!
I guess if it were the 1970s, Id be excited!
They play tennis while sipping Champagne.
They swim in the pool.
They go horseback riding like theyre on aBachelordate.
She and John Dean are still married and its been so many years, so it all worked out.
When he calls Haldeman, Haldeman tells him to nut up.
Sounds like something that would be said.
There are a good number of genuinely funny moments in this show.
Lets not lose that in the shuffle everyones timing is extremely good.
He thought it would eventually go away.
Does it seem accurate?
But I definitely do not need accuracy.
Martha is falling apart in time with her marriage.
), she tells Mitchell that the committee called and shes going to testify.
Dun, dun, dun!
