Made For TV: Watergate at 50 and Arkansas Elvis Gaslit, Starz Impeachment: American Crime Story, FX listen to audio narration here (10 mins) During another summer of congressional hearings, fights over national memory and history itself, Watergate can feel further than five decades passed. In retrospect, Richard Nixon’s story feels both sealed off from our modern squabbles and a little pathetic; the petty cover-up President may actually gain stature next to the riverboat gambler insurrectionist cult tyrant. The Republican Congress that impeached President Bill Clinton for lying about his tryst with Monica Lewinsky feels closer, and not just for the way Special Prosecutor Ken Starr blanched as Clinton parsed the legal definition of sex.
Made For TV: Watergate at 50 and Arkansas Elvis
Made For TV: Watergate at 50 and Arkansas…
Made For TV: Watergate at 50 and Arkansas Elvis
Made For TV: Watergate at 50 and Arkansas Elvis Gaslit, Starz Impeachment: American Crime Story, FX listen to audio narration here (10 mins) During another summer of congressional hearings, fights over national memory and history itself, Watergate can feel further than five decades passed. In retrospect, Richard Nixon’s story feels both sealed off from our modern squabbles and a little pathetic; the petty cover-up President may actually gain stature next to the riverboat gambler insurrectionist cult tyrant. The Republican Congress that impeached President Bill Clinton for lying about his tryst with Monica Lewinsky feels closer, and not just for the way Special Prosecutor Ken Starr blanched as Clinton parsed the legal definition of sex.