Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
We're not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I'm sure.
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.
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
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.
Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.
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.
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.
My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.
I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.
I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
