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In reply to the discussion: If you are over 60, or studied Watergate at length...Does this feel like Watergate ? [View all]kstewart33
(6,551 posts)I was a political science major and editor of the university's student newspaper at the time. I followed Watergate very closely and wrote about it. It took 2 years before Nixon resigned. The scandal spread across the FBI, CIA and DOJ. Nixon's enemies list was used particularly by Nixon's two top advisors, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, to damage those on the list and people in the three agencies did Nixon's bidding. Payoffs, bribery, dirty tricks, you name it. John Mitchell, the Attorney General was convicted and did jail time as did many others in the Nixon administration.
So far, those being investigated are limited to Trump people and the Russians. No crimes have been established by anyone across the government's agencies.
Consider that it was first the press (mainly Woodward and Bernstein and the Washington Post) and later the Senate investigative and House investigative committees that brought Nixon down. There was partisanship on the committees, but nothing that approached what we have now. There was not stonewalling that we witnessed today by Repubs on the House committee and that will likely get worse.