#watergate

Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#america #because #before #believed #carter

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#did #impact #improved #major #major impact

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. ↗

— John J. Sirica

#after #already #attempt #doubt #former

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#flat #official #pamphlet #society #version

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#acting #clearly #dealing #decisively #forthrightly

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#accused #being #described #did #free

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#america #contend #good #i #might

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. ↗

— David Cross

#huge #i #i remember #kid #looking

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily