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Title: Review: White House Plumbers Delivers an Amusing Take on Watergate
Source: Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/2023/09/22/white-house-plumbers/
Published: Sep 23, 2023
Author: Joe Lancaster
Post Date: 2023-09-23 01:26:58 by Charles_Byrd
Keywords: None
Views: 193

HBO's White House Plumbers is a fictionalized account of the events before, during, and after the notorious break-in and wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate complex during President Richard Nixon's reelection bid in 1972. The show adheres to the historical record in its way, but the twist is how it frames the entire affair as a madcap farce more like The Naked Gun than All the President's Men.

Nixon aides E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux), known as "plumbers" since they were tasked with shutting off leaks (of information), each have extensive spycraft résumés yet caper around like buffoons. Tasked with undermining whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's credibility, they plan to break into his psychiatrist's office. Liddy's preparation involves picking out a wig and practicing a limp to throw off any witnesses. The break-in is a disaster—they trash the office and don't find what they came for—but we do get multiple shots of Liddy stumbling around with a shoulder-length pageboy.

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