Reply #4: "One shudders to think

[H2O Man]

that the Watergate conspiracies might have been effectively concealed and their most dramatic episode might have been dismissed as a 'third-rate' burglary conceived and committed solely by the seven original Watergate defendants had it not been for the courage and penetrating understanding of Judge Sirica, the thoroughness of the investigative reporting reporting of Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, and other representatives of a free press, the labors of the Senate Select Committee and its excellent staff, and the dedication and dilligence of Special Prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski and their associates."
-- Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Chairman; Individual Statement; The Senate Watergate Report.