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When did Congressional testimony become performance art?

13 June 2019

1:49 AM

13 June 2019

1:49 AM

Watching parts of the Watergate hearings again recently, I was struck by just how dry they are as a spectacle. This momentous national occasion, with all its historic consequences, appeared to be conducted with all the torpor of a group of chameleons sunbathing on a tree branch.

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