Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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.
There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
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.
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.
The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.