Silly.
I lived through the history, I don’t want to see it treated as breaking news and America’s only Presidential scandal during every election cycle of my life.
You really shouldn’t depend on the Washington Post for your “history”.
Nobody is treating the Post article as “breaking news” except perhaps the FReeper who posted it. Did you go to the link and read the full article? It’s just a retrospective with material added from declassified Oval Office transcripts.
I lived through Watergate, too. An oldster now, I watched it unfold for two years as a young adult — naive, patriotic, and fascinated by politics. Shameful days then, like shameful things happening now.
It’s not good to forget, and it’s not good when we look only at our lifetimes for knowledge. There are lessons to be learned from the empires and failures of the past, both centuries ago and just 40 years ago.
Hoping for another purge this year.
I feel that way every time a scandal has “-gate” attached to the name.