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#46 WATERGATE DIDN'T STOP THE LAWLESS PRESIDENCY
It taught the powerful how to come back stronger
I was glad when Nixon resigned.
We all were.
The Watergate hearings began during my second summer working for Senator John L. McClellan, and like much of the country, I watched a president finally cornered by the truth.
It mattered. It was satisfying. It felt like proof that even the most powerful man in America could be brought down by evidence, testimony, and law.
But that was before Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld showed us how much a government could get away with—war, torture, deception, catastrophic arrogance—and still walk away.
And it was…
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