TIME Covers Watergate

Aug. 6, 1973: Constitutional Challenge
Watergate thereby became not only an epic whodunit of daytime television but a political and constitutional struggle of historic dimensions. At stake was nothing less than the definition of presidential powers and the President's relationship to the two other, nominally coequal branches of Government.
From: Battle Over Presidential Power, Aug. 6, 1973

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