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Episode 63: To The Constitution, With Love
As a freshman representative from Texas, Barbara Jordan sat on the House Judiciary Committee hearing the Watergate case in 1974. Photo credit: United States House of Representatives/Wikipedia Commons
In the summer of 1974, I was glued to the television for most of the day. For the first time in my life, my parents didn’t insist that I shut it off, go outside—do something useful. That was Watergate Summer, the weeks that a national drama played out all day on public television, with coverage hosted by Robert McNeil and Jim Lehrer, and interspersed with experts who explained the ramifications…
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