History Is Relevant
This podcast links the past to the present. The programs seek new perspectives on current events by examining the history that brought us to where we are today. The host, Robert Brent Toplin, is a university-based professor of history. He has published a dozen books and more than 200 articles, and he has commented on history, politics, and film in several nationally broadcast television and radio programs.
History Is Relevant
Watergate: Four Key Lessons for Our Times
This podcast discusses the significance of four important aspects of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, and it considers the relevance of that history to politics in our times.
First, the podcast deals with the controversy regarding President Gerald Ford’s decision to pardon Richard Nixon. Secondly, it examines the Nixon administration’s efforts to interfere in the 1972 election campaign and shape its outcome. Thirdly, it discusses the “Enemies List” that Nixon and his aides created, and it shows how the list threatened democracy. In the fourth section, the podcast notes that it took bipartisan pressure to compel Nixon’s resignation. Republicans, not just Democrats, contributed to resolution of the crisis.