As I was watching the In Memoriam segment of This Week, I was surprised to see that E. Howard Hunt had died this week. I searched the postings around the Virginia blogosphere and it seems no one noticed that this man, who figured so prominently in the Watergate scandal, had passed. A Google search revealed no stories on his demise and the only blog post in the top searches was that of Wonkette.
How is it possible that such a death went largely unnoticed? For the blogosphere, many of whom are so young as to only be vaguely aware of the impact of Watergate on the American psyche via the history books, it may be understandable. But for the MSM to basically ignore this is a bit of a mystery to me. (The Wikipedia entry references just two stories about his death on January 23, 2007, neither of which showed up in the Google search.)
Just curious here.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
For those of you too young to remember, this is a good site:
http://www.ehowardhunt.com
Another great resource: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/galleries/070123/HowardHunt/index.html. I learned of his death via washingtonpost.com when it happened. The next morning I heard a piece on NPR where the reporter was quoting Hunt’s wife as saying he was essentially hung out to dry, promised protections he never got, bitter that he went to jail and so many others involved did not and never got over any of it.
I guess I can’t blame him for that part.
Sorta like when Shirley Chisolm died (not in any way saying shes like Mr. Hunt)… I didnt see one TV Segment and the only MSM story was on A13 of the post.
Its sorta upsetting that people would not want to honor the first black woman to serve in Congress and the first woman to run for a major parties nomination…
Scratch, i mean the first African American to run fot a major parties nomination… She might have been the first woman, but i dont know.
The first woman to run for president was Victoria Woodhull, born in 1838 in Homer, Ohio, was selected by the Equal Rights Party to be its candidate in the 1872 election. (She lost to fellow Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant, who was reelected to a second term.)
All I know about E. Howard Hunt is that he was played masterfully by Ed Harris in “Nixon.”
Vivian, you know that when Woodhull ran for president, some marchers in New Jersey took it upon themselves to protest her candidacy by dressing up in women’s clothes. One wonders if Woodhull wasn’t doing those guys a favor, maybe they wanted to dress like that for awhile?