The Watergate Celebration We’ve Been Waiting For

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Kaitlyn: Watergate … it caused the events of Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, if you think about it.

Also, she went around telling everyone who “Deep Throat” was, but they just assumed she wouldn’t know and therefore didn’t believe her. (It’s no wonder she hated D.C.) Something that really sticks with me about the movie version of All the President’s Men is that The Washington Post didn’t let them film in the real office, but they did have reporters save all their trash for a while and then gave the trash to production so that they could sprinkle it around the set. (Really generous.) And something that sticks with me about the book version of All the President’s Men is that it is very dry and confusing—not well-written at all. You can actually skip it, but you can’t skip Heartburn.

Anyway, the reason I’m talking about this: Our friend Andrew has spent something like a year working on a Watergate-themed episode of his amazing podcast, Aw, Would You. His attention to detail is legendary. He watched dozens of hours of the hearings, as well as every fictionalized version of the scandal that he could find, including the off-Broadway play , which starred a famous Nixon impressionist and posited that the real Nixon was innocent—railroaded! You can’t skip and you can’t skip Episode 12, “The Many Voices of Richard Nixon.”