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    Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up

    Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up

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    Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up

    FromSlow Burn

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    36 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 12, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Woodward and Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, and a host of other journalists tried to make people care about Watergate in the run-up to the 1972 election. They totally failed. Slate Plus members get a bonus episode of Slow Burn every week. Find out more at slate.com/slowburn.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    Released:
    Dec 12, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.