[LS]

BTW, there is a reason history is usually written 20 years or more after events---precisely because people at the time often don't have all the facts.

Oh, and I think you meant "half-baked," not "half-backed."

[ngat]

Please excuse the typo. I did mean half-baked.

And it was you who started with the name-calling, by back-handedly accusing me of being a liar by posting without having read the book. Which I own. < (incomplete sentence)

If you choose to believe that Watergate was nothing but a bunch of fools risking everything on the say-so of a punk-kid lawyer who had just been made Lawyer-Nixon’s lawyer, then go ahead and believe.