Taking Watergate Seriously

IRVING YOUNGER

Busy people must not be prodigal with the hours they give over to entertainment, nor should honorable men and women risk debasement by immoderate exposure to the impudence of blackguards. Of course, then, among the serried stacks of his helpers’ confessions, Nixon’s memoirs will soon range high on the remainder table. Let us put that episode behind us, good folks are now heard to sigh. Let us turn to fresh woods, and pastures new. But that would be too easy a conclusion to events more subtle than some of those good folk may think. There is much of importance still to say, despite what so many have already said. It is time to be serious about Watergate.

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IRVING YOUNGER

Busy people must not be prodigal with the hours they give over to entertainment, nor should honorable men and women risk debasement by immoderate exposure to the impudence of blackguards. Of course, then, among the serried stacks of his helpers’ confessions, Nixon’s memoirs will soon range high on the remainder table. Let us put that episode behind us, good folks are now heard to sigh. Let us turn to fresh woods, and pastures new. But that would be too easy a conclusion to events more subtle than some of those good folk may think. There is much of importance still to say, despite what so many have already said. It is time to be serious about Watergate.