Letters, Jun. 4, 1973

Watergate and the System

Sir / Hedley Donovan's Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda

Sir / Some pundits have recently remarked that the impeachment of President Nixon might be too severe a shock for the system to bear. But if the charges against him are true, might not the...

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