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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.

Watergate was a constitutional crisis of the highest order.