But it's worth pondering how Watergate helped bring about the current crisis of authority.
"The chances of it spilling over are not as great as with Watergate, " Doak said.
But the mere invocation of Watergate is enough to chill anyone: In 1974, President Richard M.
No one thinks the burglary at the Watergate office complex was necessary for his re-election.
"We are headed toward a second Watergate...and a constitutional crisis in 1997, " Perot says.
Ultimately the focus is far more on the Watergate case than the film about it.
By the time the Watergate scandal erupted, after the 1972 election, Moynihan was in New Delhi.
Wasn't misuse of the IRS, like that of the FBI, supposed to end with Watergate?
The Watergate and Teapot Dome investigations proceeded without the benefit of such a law.
Along with disco, leisure suits and Watergate, one of the horrors of the 1970s was stagflation.
But other indicators showed Americans turning off politics around the time of Watergate, he pointed out.
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And he said Watergate had produced a "cultural shift for elites involved in politics".
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"Watergate destroyed that, " he said, adding that the Vietnam war also played a role.
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The record of the Watergate hearings make clear that at no time was Mr. St.
But the Watergate scandal brought fresh divisions to the country and ultimately led to his resignation.
His troubles concerned a bungled burglary attempt at the Watergate no one got killed.
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Later that day, the president's personal secretary, Betty Currie, drove to Ms. Lewinsky's Watergate home.
The contrast to the Watergate investigation and the impeachment of President Nixon is stark.
Democrats controlled their largest number of state legislatures after the post-Watergate election of 1974.
By the 1990s, the Watergate babies had attenuated as a presence in the House.
The era of President Ronald Reagan pushed the Watergate babies to the margins of national policymaking.
Until Watergate this was accepted by most as a necessary evil to safeguard the nation's security.
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Watergate also led to the establishment of inspectors-general in federal agencies to audit and investigate them.
Then came the failures of the Vietnam war and the lies of Watergate and Iran-Contra.
His mission over so many years since Watergate has been to reawaken those moral nerve endings.
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"There were so many elements to Watergate that it's hard to pack them all in, " Woodward said.
But as with Watergate, it is not only our prosecutors who deserve credit, but the much-maligned press.
As they say in the newsroom, the Murdochs just may be a running story akin to Watergate.
But the clothes of Watergate do not fit the body of the conduct detailed in this referral.
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