Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free june 1997 the world breaking left lasting legacy of cynicism watergate scars persist scandal began 25 years ago today Cwashington Post Washington on june five men fumbling in the dark were caught burglar izing the democratic party Headquarters at the watergate a Quarter of a Century the legacy of watergate is a higher level of cynicism about a lower Standard expected of politicians and a Rush to unearth the next scandal everyone assumes lies buried beneath governments Public Richard Nixon Gross misuse of Power let Loose a virus that lingers and its mutations have infected the ways in which the the the courts and the White House now process what mainly distinguished Many americans is that he had the Rotten Luck to get it Doest affect my attitude towards because they All do from the president on said Jeanne a Clifton jewelry store if you dont see you need stronger Ronald Reagan said he would never provide arms to Iran in Exchange for he lied and voters were but not polls suggest americans believe Bill Clinton is evasive and less than but they handed him a second mandate last watergate Likely lowered the thresh old for All of Nixon americans went woozy As they watched an investigation into a so called third rate burglary Lead to the discovery of a web of abuse of Power that forced a disgraced presi Dent out of of i am not a Nixon had told a National television audience years when another alleged scandal threatened to abort his political his secret audiotapes proved the tapes made the american people flies on the Wall of the Oval office and exposed Nixon mendacity in his own often profane the breaking at the democratic National committees office at the watergate com plex was not a pen Yante burglary by Zeal Ous but bumbling political it was a flagrant violation of the Law authorized either by Nixon himself or his closest desperate attempts to minimize or con ceal the administrations complicity in the burglary led to the misuse of the the internal Revenue service and other Federal government agencies to punish those on Nixon enemies documents were envelopes stuffed with Hus Money from secret slush funds were delivered to the burglars by Nixon personal watergate was the crowning moment of an Era in which Peoples disillusionment government came to full Flower attorney general John the High est ranking Legal officer in the was ordered to lie on the witness stand at Nixon in the final years of his Long after his presidency ended in Nixon amazed former allies and enemies with the Success he had rehabilitating his a series of Well received for eign policy pronouncements and carefully scripted appearances did much to Confer on the former president the status of elder putting the dark pall of the watergate scandal Ever further behind but on the 25th anniversary of the watergate Nixon remains bedevilled by his own captured on More than 200 hours of White House tapes made Public recently after years of former senator George d sought to make peace with his old political beginning with a visit in 1984 to help celebrate Nixon 71st birth but disclosures in the Nixon tapes have since caused him to regret the on the Nixon is demand excl calculating and if there is one guiding principle about Nixon that stands out on these it is this do unto others what you think they have done unto for a phone conversation Nixon had with his top Hatchet White House special counsel Charles on the night of May a few hours Alabama George then the top vote getter among democratic presidential had been shot at a rally in Maryland by an would be Assassin named Arthur Bremen is he Bremer a left Winger or a right Winger Nixon Hes going to be a left Winger by the time we get i Colson Nixon keep at keep at subsequent members of the con Gress were Quick to realize that the water Gate hearings into the scandal had made stars of their what did the president know and when did he know it intoned the senator Howard he Rode his performance in the watergate hearings to a run for the Republican presidential nomination in losing to congressmen Are now Quick to demand sweeping investigations and White House documents whether or not the demand is Nixon voice on crackly audiotapes ordering aides to Stonewall created an atmosphere of suspicion of presidents that has not Andrew director of the Pew research which tracks Public attitudes toward government and the refers to those who came of age after watergate As the cynicism watergate was the crowning moment of an Era in which Peoples disillusionment with with came to full he in the words of Henry a presiden tial historian at Columbia were not recovering very no president since Nixon has been fully trusted and that is both a reflection on the particular presidents and the state of the presidency that Nixon Graff the scandal also led to a creeping tabloid nation of the Media in the United said Richard chief of the 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