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It examines how the Watergate break-in connected to a wider pattern of presidential dominance over political espionage, sabotage, and illegal actions, culminating in the coverup. The narrative situates Watergate within Nixon’s five successive wars, detailing early initiatives such as the Huston Plan and attempts to undermine opponents.","The Original Watergate  \nStories  \nBy The Washington Post  \nForeword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright  \nDiversion Books  \nA Division of Diversion Publishing Corp.  \n443 Park Avenue South, Suite 1004 New York, New York 10016 [www.DiversionBooks.com](www.DiversionBooks.com)  \nCopyright © 2012 by The Washington Post Cover designed by David Griffin Cover image courtesy of HARRY NALTCHAYAN/TWP  \nAll rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.  \nFor more information, email [info@diversionbooks.com](info@diversionbooks.com).  \nFirst Diversion Books edition September 2012.  \nISBN: 978-1-938120-58-9 (ebook)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nForeword  \nBy Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward  \nAs Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: “What was Watergate?”  \nCountless answers have been offered in the 40 years since June 17, 1972, when a team of burglars wearing business suits and rubber gloves was arrested at 2:30 a.m. at the headquarters of the Democratic Party in the Watergate office building. Four days afterward, the Nixon White House offered its answer: “Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it was,” press secretary Ronald Ziegler scoffed, dismissing the incident as a “thirdrate burglary.”  \nHistory proved that it was anything but. Two years later, Richard Nixon would become the first and only U.S. president to resign, his role in the criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice—the Watergate coverup—definitively established. Another answer has since persisted, often  \nunchallenged: the notion that the coverup was worse than the crime. This idea minimizes the scale and reach of Nixon’s criminal actions.  \nErvin’s answer to his own question hints at the magnitude of Watergate: “To destroy, insofar as the presidential election of 1972 was concerned, the integrity of the process by which the President of the United States is nominated and elected.” Yet Watergate was far more than that. At its most virulent, it Watergate was a brazen and daring assault, led by Nixon himself, against the heart of American democracy: the Constitution, our system of free elections, the rule of law.  \nToday, much more than when we first covered this story as young Washington Post reporters, an abundant record provides unambiguous answers and evidence about Watergate and its meaning. This record has expanded continuously over the decades with the transcription of hundreds of hours of Nixon’s secret tapes, adding detail and context to the hearings in the Senate and House of Representatives; the trials and guilty pleas of some 40 Nixon aides and associates who went to jail; and the memoirs of Nixon and his deputies. Such documentation makes it possible to trace the president’s personal dominance over a massive campaign of political  \nespionage, sabotage and other illegal activities against his real or perceived opponents.  \nIn the course of his 5½-year presidency, beginning in 1969, Nixon launched and managed five successive and overlapping wars—against the anti-Vietnam War movement, the news media, the Democrats, the justice system and, finally, against history itself. 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