The Ice Storm & GR

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> 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 ...

It was ALL about the  time frame, but that's OK.


>
>> 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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