.
“There’s
social media, there’s the internet, the news cycles are faster. I think
Watergate would have occurred at a much more accelerated speed than the 928
days it took to go from the arrest at the Watergate to the conviction of
Haldeman and Ehrlichman and Mitchell, et al.
“There’s
more likelihood he might have survived if there’d been a Fox News.”
—John Dean, Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, 1970-73, “Off Message,” Politico, Jan. 3, 2018.
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