Realpolitik
Banned
Prelude:
Richard Nixon was not happy.
He had it all planned out. China, SALT I, ending that bitch of a war, and just generally stomping the opposition in 1972. But some asshole-his guess was Liddy, this fellow was a little nuts. A good, healthy patriot, but nuts. Fake pizza orders? Disguises?-had ordered a burglary into the Watergate hotel. Now, he had to cover the damage. The Democrats would go after this as hard as they could.
It was really funny. He was rather happy when that old cocksucker had to go to the hospital-then disappointed when he didn't croak. He wanted, like all his predecessors, to control the FBI. But the old queen just kept sticking around.
"Right, right... call the FBI. Ask Hoover what he is going to do..."
Yet he had the oddest feeling that, no matter how much he loathed the idea of being dependent on anybody, that he somehow dodged something worse with this burglary.
OOC:
The point of departure is that J. Edgar Hoover sticks around for a couple more years and squelches the investigation like he has countless other Beltway scandals, using his dirt to keep Congressmen from investigating, the usual stuff, combined with no Deep Throat. Hoover might not have cared about the President personally, but he did care about the office. So, no Watergate in our sense-some of Nixon's dirty laundry, including the Watergate coverup, will be coming out though. In time for there to be a serious scandal? Well... you'll see. I thought, however, that I'd do something a little different from the usual Frank Willis misses it or it just never happens scenario, both of which while very plausible, aren't as fun. But may I say this: It's really amazing looking back on it for someone my age-the sheer amount of chance that went into discovering the burglary and tracing it to the White House. People think it was preordained, it wasn't. And I personally believe that Watergate changed so much about US politics and society-some of the changes were inevitable and were merely exacerbated by Watergate. Some weren't. Let's see which was which.
I'm still figuring out how the website works, so I'm afraid it's rather simple in terms of decor for now.
Richard Nixon was not happy.
He had it all planned out. China, SALT I, ending that bitch of a war, and just generally stomping the opposition in 1972. But some asshole-his guess was Liddy, this fellow was a little nuts. A good, healthy patriot, but nuts. Fake pizza orders? Disguises?-had ordered a burglary into the Watergate hotel. Now, he had to cover the damage. The Democrats would go after this as hard as they could.
It was really funny. He was rather happy when that old cocksucker had to go to the hospital-then disappointed when he didn't croak. He wanted, like all his predecessors, to control the FBI. But the old queen just kept sticking around.
"Right, right... call the FBI. Ask Hoover what he is going to do..."
Yet he had the oddest feeling that, no matter how much he loathed the idea of being dependent on anybody, that he somehow dodged something worse with this burglary.
OOC:
The point of departure is that J. Edgar Hoover sticks around for a couple more years and squelches the investigation like he has countless other Beltway scandals, using his dirt to keep Congressmen from investigating, the usual stuff, combined with no Deep Throat. Hoover might not have cared about the President personally, but he did care about the office. So, no Watergate in our sense-some of Nixon's dirty laundry, including the Watergate coverup, will be coming out though. In time for there to be a serious scandal? Well... you'll see. I thought, however, that I'd do something a little different from the usual Frank Willis misses it or it just never happens scenario, both of which while very plausible, aren't as fun. But may I say this: It's really amazing looking back on it for someone my age-the sheer amount of chance that went into discovering the burglary and tracing it to the White House. People think it was preordained, it wasn't. And I personally believe that Watergate changed so much about US politics and society-some of the changes were inevitable and were merely exacerbated by Watergate. Some weren't. Let's see which was which.
I'm still figuring out how the website works, so I'm afraid it's rather simple in terms of decor for now.
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