Alt History: What if Watergate didn’t happen?

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Alt History: What if Watergate didn’t happen?

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Dec 30, 2022

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Alternative History: What if Ed Muskie was the Democratic nominee in 1972 and Watergate never happened? David Shribman, the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and former Washington bureau chief at the Boston Globe joins Chuck to explore another alternative history.

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