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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Deglassco ("Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

For some, Watergate proved democracy’s strength: Press exposing corruption. Congress investigating. Courts demanding compliance. A resignation that showed no man was above the law. For others, it was only a witch hunt.

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Image:Tourists reading President Nixon resignation news, 8 August 1974. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive.

Black-and-white photograph of two people reading newspapers outside the White House gates in August 1974. The front pages of the Washington Star-News headline “Nixon Resigning” with a large photo of President Richard Nixon. The White House is visible in the background beyond the iron fence.