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Source: Agence France-Presse
Nixon far worse than thought say Watergate reporters
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, June 10, 2012 2:29 EDT
Almost four decades after the infamous Watergate break-in, the reporters who broke the story have concluded that then-president Richard Nixon was far worse than they thought.
Nixon resigned in August 1974 for his administrations role in a June 17, 1972, burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in the US capital and the subsequent cover-up. He became the only American president ever to resign the office.
Many inaccurate ideas and myths related to Nixons role in the burglary and its cover-up have found long life over the years, reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward wrote in an op-ed piece for The Washington Post Saturday.
Another
has since persisted, often unchallenged: the notion that the cover-up was worse than the crime. This idea minimizes the scale and reach of Nixons criminal actions, the reporters stressed.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/10/nixon-far-worse-than-thought-say-watergate-reporters/
Hey, Woodward. George W. Bush was far worse than you thought, too.