Those who lived through the Watergate scandal in the '70s with its associated names and labels, including President Richard Nixon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the plumbers, non-denial denials, press secretary Ron Ziegler, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, the tapes, Judge John Sirica, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, John Dean and the cover-up, will recall the blazing headlines.
Daily, especially in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, and most leading broadcast network newscasts were stories about the growing scandal and calls for impeachment of the president and the jailing of some of his top associates.
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