The Ice Storm & GR

[Dave Monroe]

I don't think we are in disagreement ...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> I don't think we are talking about the  same thing
> and sorry to be argumentative but as I see it (the
> point I was trying to make) there was NO time
> frame at all, in fact there was a negative time  
> frame--between March 19, 1973 and February 28, 1973.

EXCEPT about the time frame ...

> Until March 19, 1973,  there was no "Watergate"
> story worth Pynchon's time to report. The "second
> rate burglary," as it was latter to be called was,
> and for many months, remained pure dog-bites-man.
> It  was at most just a bit more Nixon skullduggery,
> no more important than everything else that was
> going on....

5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats' Office Here

By Alfred E. Lewis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 18, 1972; Page A01

Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of
the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested at 2:30
a.m. yesterday in what authorities described as an
elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic
National Committee here.

[...]

They were surprised at gunpoint by three plain-clothes
officers of the metropolitan police department in a
sixth floor office at the plush Watergate, 2600
Virginia Ave., NW, where the Democratic National
Committee occupies the entire floor....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/05/31/AR2005111001227.html

GOP Security Aide Among Five Arrested in Bugging
Affair

By Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 19, 1972; Page A01

One of the five men arrested early Saturday in the
attempt to bug the Democratic National Committee
headquarters is the salaried security coordinator for
President Nixon's reelection committee....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/05/31/AR2005111001228.html

FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats

By Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 10, 1972; Page A01

FBI agents have established that the Watergate bugging
incident stemmed from a massive campaign of political
spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of President
Nixon's re-election and directed by officials of the
White House and the Committee for the Re-election of
the President....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/06/03/AR2005111001232.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/chronology.htm

What's the significance of March 19th, 1973, again? 
At any rate, again, I have yet to see that there's
anything specifically, pointedly Watergatian about the
Nixon refs. in GR, but I am giving anyone who can find
'em the benefit of the doubt.  Again, what was that
about a change in the Pt. IV epigraph?  And so on ...

But, again, of course, Nixon had been a target, one of
many, of Pynchon's since The Crying of Lot 49, so ... 

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