[Steve_Seattle]

"Let's not forget Watergate. Ever since WG, they have been trying to recreate it with each and every Republican president."

Absolutely true; for the press, that was the Golden Age, to bring down a Republican president, and the much-hated Nixon, no less. They truly have been trying to recapture that moment ever since.

[Milhous]

Absolutely true; for the press, that was the Golden Age, to bring down a Republican president, and the much-hated Nixon, no less. They truly have been trying to recapture that moment ever since

From my FReeping home page:

In 1972 Nixon was re-elected in one of the most massive landslide elections in U.S. political history, defeating George McGovern and garnering over 60% of the popular vote. He carried 49 of the 50 states, trailing only in Massachusetts.
Richard Nixon

Our republic faced its gravest threat when one anonymous source overturned that election.