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Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide…

— Rick Perlstein

What was Watergate? A little bugging!

— Richard M. Nixon

“The elimination of Mr. Richard Nixon leaves intact all the mechanisms and all the false values which permitted the Watergate scandal.”

— Claude Julien

Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the…

— John Wayne

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…

— Richard M. Nixon

ON WATERGATE: The reluctant cover up of a third rate burglary which President Nixon new nothing about until after the debacle brought down an…

— John Lars Zwerenz

I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in…

— Tom Brokaw

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

— Gore Vidal

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result,…

— Samuel Dash

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

— Curt Weldon

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in…

— Thomas Mallon

“In its broadest sense, the scandal of Watergate arose from the tumultuous and destabilizing trends of the 1960s, especially the war in Vietnam and…

— James T. Patterson