New York, Dec. 18—Watergate is coming up right soon now. As a judicial matter, before the relevant court, and as an extra-judicial matter, before congressional committees that are raring to go, their thirst for justice no doubt stimulated by the happy coincidence that the congressional committees are run by Democrats, and the victims are, at least putatively, Republican.
The entire episode requires, of course, a little perspective. It was hard to get that perspective during the campaign, in part because the McGovern people were elevating Watergate into a moral watershed. You were either dismayed by it, and therefore prepared to vote for McGovern. Or you were insensible to creeping totalitarianism under the Republican Party.
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