In yesterday's Washington Post; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein collaborate and have a joint byline for the first time in 36 years.
The article prints out at 8 pages, takes less than 15 minutes to read, and is fascinating.
Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought
As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: “What was Watergate?”
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Ervin’s answer to his own question hints at the magnitude of Watergate: “To destroy, insofar as the presidential election of 1972 was concerned, the integrity of the process by which the President of the United States is nominated and elected.” Yet Watergate was far more than that. At its most virulent, Watergate was a brazen and daring assault, led by Nixon himself, against the heart of American democracy: the Constitution, our system of free elections, the rule of law.
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