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Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump.

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Watergate: A Constitutional Crisis

"What brought down Richard Nixon? Watergate was a constitutional crisis," he says. "The cops and robbers part of it was interesting and peculiar and funny and alarming, but that isn't what brought downRichard Nixon." The real turning point was the famous, I hate these cliches, but the Saturday night massacre in which President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire his deputy attorney general.

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