Watergate and GR epigraph: source

[Paul Mackin]

On Sep 1, 2006, at 8:29 AM, John Carvill wrote:

> Thanks for that link Tore.
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>> Sorry for not responding to this earlier (I was in bed sleeping, with
> the > rest of Europe).
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> Big bed :-)
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> It's funny how this thread has spun off in the direction it has. I  
> hold
> my hands up and admit I totally misinterpreted what Moody was  
> saying. On
> the question of Watergate refs in GR, I reckon Paul M has it right  
> that
> 'Watergate' as the world came to know it, hadn't really unfurled by  
> the
> time Pynchon would have been making any final adjustments. On the  
> other
> hand, what Dave posted...
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> << 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....>>
>
> ....is worth noting. Ok the whole thing wasn't out in the open by then
> but by Oct 72 we have a reference to Nixon's White House running "a
> massive campaign of political spying and sabotage".

That's it in a nutshell.

Wonder what stage of Bushgate we're presently at.  Everyone knows  
he's guilty but the Senate Hearings haven't yet begun, these probably  
necessary to provide the impetus for the House to take up  
Impeachment. (dreaming)
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> Now, getting back to The Ice Storm, who wouldn't like to have seen
> Sigourney Weaver doing more with that whip?

She's great. Niece of the great Doodles Weaver I believe.

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> Cheers
> JC
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