TIME Covers Watergate

Oct. 29, 1973: Nixon on the Brink
With astonishing speed in a frantic Washington weekend, an effort by President Nixon to compromise in the battle for his tapes and to preserve the authority of his office crashed toward a fateful climax, leaving his survival in the Oval Office in grave doubt and pitching the nation into one of the gravest constitutional crises in its history.
From: Richard Nixon Stumbles to the Brink, Oct. 29, 1973

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