Watergate. The biggest nothingburger political scandal of the 20th century.
I have Vietnamese friends whose family members were tortured and murdered in Vietnam. I lost family members in the military fighting the communists in VN. The loss of Saigon was due directly to this hoked-up “Scandal”.
Maybe in terms of what was actually there, though Nixon did obstruct justice. No doubt. He ordered the CIA to block the FBI from investigating the break in. Stupid.
John Dean set him up and Dicky walked right into it.
In terms of history, it was a revolution in politics. From that point on, every GOP president would be viewed as illegitimate and subject to an impeachment: Reagan with Iran-Contra, Bush with the SR-71 (didn’t go far cuz he failed so quickly); W over WMDs; Trump. Watergate was a big, big deal historically.
Woodward was a Naval Intelligence Officer... Operative.
The entire script was pre-written.
And Judge Sirica was crooked
” ... newly public transcript of an in-chambers meeting between Sirica, the U.S. District Court judge in charge of the case, and then-Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in July 1973 shows the judge revealed secret probation reports indicating that E. Howard Hunt had cited orders from officials high up in the Nixon administration. Several of Hunt’s co-defendants had previously denied any White House involvement in court testimony, and Sirica told Cox and other prosecutors that he felt the new information “seemed to me significant.” “