Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up
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The Watergate Break In
Even people who were aware of the watergate break in didn't take it that seriously. Many reacted to it with something closer to amusement than grave concern or outrage. People thought it was comical that this was ta team that couldn't shoot straight. Nixon called it the week that changed the world, and he wasn't wrong. But as historian rick Perlstein explains in his book, the invisible bridge, the press was always looking for signs that nixon had turned over a new leaf.
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