Watergate: The Last Burp of the Eastern Establishment

Walter cronkite was uniquely positioned to do this. He had unparalled credibility with the american public, and he had the pull inside c b s news to do something that no one else could have gotten away with. Cronkite ted more than 14 minutes of his 22 minute show to laying out the facts of the case as they were known at the time. At first it was called the water gate caper. But the episode grew steadily more sinister, no longer a caper, but the watergate affair esculating finally in the charges of a high level campaign of political sabotage and espionage,. apparently unparalleled in American history.