Watergate - The First Crack

After 12 weeks and two million words of tulevise testimony, we have reached a point at which a continued backward looking obsession with watergate is causing this nation to neglect matters of far greater importance. Nixon insisted that he was completely, totally innocent. And he called on the country to just move on. The speech failed. 77 % of adult americans watched the speech, and only about a quarter of them found nixon's words quite somewhat convincing. It wasn't just voters who reacted badly to the speech either. Some members of the republican establishment were starting to get nervous as well.