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We certainly didn't lean into it, but we wanted it there. And then it happens again and again and again. And so Watergate happens and then we think to ourselves, well, at least that's over with. I like to say: We have very short memories. I think, unfortunately, this "true believer-ism" has been infecting politics really since Nixon. On the ways Watergate speaks to today's political moment

The actors Justin Theroux (left) and Woody Harrelson star in the HBO miniseries White House Plumbers. Theroux and Mandel spoke to Morning Edition about what drew them to the series and how characters like Liddy paved the way for today's right-wing extremism. They were caught, and the scandal ultimately led to Nixon's resignation two years later, after his administration repeatedly tried to cover up their involvement. In 1972, they attempted to break into the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate. The "plumbers" - Liddy, ex-FBI, and Hunt, ex-CIA - were charged with the task of stopping leaks like the Pentagon Papers. "I keep calling it a tragedy that makes you laugh." "I certainly never thought of it as a comedy because to me, it's such a horrific period in American history," director David Mandel told NPR's Leila Fadel. Howard Hunt, played by Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson. HBO's new five-part miniseries, White House Plumbers, revisits the infamous Watergate burglary that brought down President Richard Nixon from the perspective of the men who orchestrated it: G. Howard Hunt in the new HBO miniseries White House Plumbers. The actors Justin Theroux (left) and Woody Harrelson play G.