Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Another take on Watergate

Another take on Watergate

Looking back on the positive legacy of the political crime

Bruce Yandle
Jun 12, 2022
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The 50th anniversary of the June 17, 1972, Watergate break-in — in which burglars inspired and funded by President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign attempted to bug the Democratic National Committee offices — stirs memories of a sorry chapter in American history.

Organized by the Committee to Re-elect the President, fittingly referred to by some as “…

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