Last summer, in the week that followed the break-in at Watergate, only four TIME readers wrote to the editors to express their views. One of those four was prophetic: "The suspicious burglary at Democratic Party headquarters . . . is a clear warning for all those who have been sitting pathetically on the sidelines to get concerned about the political future of our nation in this election year."
But the big political story that summer was the Democratic nomination of George McGovern for President, and then came the controversy over his running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton. Watergate submerged into the murk like...
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