Thirty years ago Richard Nixon resigned the presidency following a determination that he had lost support among his own party following the Watergate break-in and resulting coverup.
On June 17, 1972 five employees of Nixon's re-election campaign were arrested breaking into the Democratic National Party Headquarters at the Watergate and later convicted of burglary. Two years later the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstructing justice in connection with the Watergate investigation.
However to too many Republicans there is a belief that Nixon either didn't do anything wrong or did nothing more than any president and that the media forced him out of office. Yet 30 years later there is little coverage marking the anniversary of the scandal.
The Washington Post, in it series on past eventful summers touched Watergate in July with an article about a Kansas Republican who learned civics that summer. They also did a story on "the summer of Monica" but managed to run that story the day after former President Bill Clinton spoke to the Democratic convention.
The Post's Metro editor tried to explain it away by saying "I don't think anyone thought of the juxtaposition of the long-planned summer of Lewinsky with Clinton's appearance before the convention."
So no one the Metro desk of the nation's top newspaper wasn't following the news closely enough to notice that it would appear the same day as a review of Clinton's speech? They managed to not run the Watergate story during the Republican National Convention but figured out a way to run the Monica story during the democratic Convention, and by chance on the same day President Clinton's speech was reviewed.
As the Church Lady would say "How convenient."
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