VR35 - In this episode released on the 54th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, the Vapid Response team raids the archives of the New York Times to retrieve one of the single worst (and worst-timed!) contemporary takes on the scandal which would end Richard Nixon’s Presidency. We then return to a time in which a Watergate-style burglary would be a fun diversion to see how at least one conservative legal writer is defending Trump’s nomination of his former defense attorney to serve as Attorney General.

1. “Comeback Time,” William Safire, The New York Times (4/19/1973)
2. “Todd Blanche is Unfit for Office,” The Editorial Board, The New York Times (6/15/2026)
3. “Blanche and the New York Times,” Michael Fragoso, National Review (6/15/2026)

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