Gordon Liddy ( Justin Theroux), comrades in arms whose names are as similar as their right-wing ideology. While grating as a lecture, “White House Plumbers” works better as a dual character study of E. “If all I’ve done is undermine the average American’s faith in government,” he says, “that will pay dividends for the Republican Party far into the future.” You can hear the high umbrage and 20/20 hindsight in one Watergate conspirator’s look back on his public disgrace. This only adds to the sense that the show’s true, unseen subject is less Nixon than Donald Trump, a spiritual successor whose administration occasioned a flurry of projects now arriving past their moment of peak relevance. As in “Veep,” the president at the center of “White House Plumbers” is never portrayed on screen outside a handful of news clips. Like “Gaslit,” the Starz series led by Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, “White House Plumbers” has a distinct whiff of historical hangover. The latter podcast, which outlined the series of events from the attempted bugging of the DNC in 1972 to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, was already adapted into a TV show last year.
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