AMERICAN NOTES: Cashing In on Watergate

It was only a matter of time—and not much time—before various entrepreneurs began flooding the market with Watergate games, gadgets and paraphernalia. Those who like to relax at home with a good scandal can test their aim at a Watergate dart board, or brood over a Watergate jigsaw puzzle, or even write their friends on Watergate stationery. Or they can listen to a recording of the first (but undoubtedly not the last) country-and-western Watergate ballad, At the Watergate (The Truth Come Pouriri Out). Sample lyric: "If you're wonderin' why they wouldn't blow the whistle, it's no mystery/ Lots of...

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