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“The most ominous thing about Watergate,” he wrote, “is that it clearly demonstrates that the press and the bureaucracy, working together, can destroy the president, and from now on, every president is going to have to take this fact into account.”1
Good quote
This is historical tripe, but effective when delivered to a receptive audience. Lies told often enough form a reality of their own, and Americans of all stripes struggled in the decades after Watergate to simultaneously process a president’s unprecedented resignation alongside broader changes in their nation’s economy, global role, and even ethnic and religious makeup.
that the public’s overall trust in journalists as the watchdogs of democracy has never again reached pre-Watergate levels.
Main poiny
each of the three men who led House Republicans during Clinton’s impeachment would ultimately face ridicule, ouster, and even prison for their infidelities and sexual crimes.
Shows how deep power goes
Impeachments undermine national unity as well. Americans are today more politically divided than before Nixon’s resignation and Clinton’s trial,
Quote for essay about what a president is supposed to do
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Expectation of a president being a tile follower
