Volume 29, Number 12 · July 15, 1982

Watergate Over the Dam

By Mary McCarthy

The Watergate break-in of June, 1972, culminating two years later in the resignation and virtual flight of President Richard Nixon, had the effect of reviving my belief in the framework of our republic, i.e., in the Constitution as a practical political instrument.



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