Authors Electric

Segretti flushed out of his Watergate hole, 1973 The more things change..., as the French say.... Today it's deja vu Trump-Watergate: I see a kaleidoscope of patterns each formed from the same little pieces of coloured glass.  Flashback: There is a scene in the 1976 film All the President's Men in which Washington Post investigative reporter Carl Bernstein (played by Dustin Hoffman) interviews then young, Nixon campaign operative Donald Segretti (played by Robert Walden) at the latter's yacht-side apartment in L.A.'s trendy Marina del Rey. The scene portrays Segretti as something of a regretful dupe recruited by a former University of Southern California buddy and Republican "dirty trickster" to head an undercover squad of self-described "ratfuckers'" to slime Democratic candidates leading up to the 1972 US Presidential election. As revealed in one of the one of the lesser known, but nastier footnotes to the Watergate scandal, it turned ou...