TIME Covers Watergate

Aug. 27, 1973: Nixon's Problems
Clearly, a troubled nation was waiting for an explanation, a restoration of public trust. What it received instead was a plea by the President to put aside the "backward-looking obsession with Watergate that is causing this nation to neglect matters of far greater importance."
From: Scrambling to Break Clear of Watergate, Aug. 27, 1973

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