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As I stood there at the rear of the theater on Capitol Hill watching the staff of the Senate Watergate Committee at work, I realized that I was witnessing Washington's immune system, and it had detected an infection. The offices of the Senate Watergate Committee, and the special prosecutor, and the Judiciary Committee, and the Washington Post, and the New York Times and the AP and UPI and the networks - all of them were flooding the bloodstream of the nation's capital with antibodies focused on one thing: ridding the place of Richard Nixon.

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As I stood there at the rear of the theater on Capitol Hill watching the staff of the Senate Watergate Committee at work, I realized that I was witnessing Washington's immune system, and it had detected an infection. The offices of the Senate Watergate Committee, and the special prosecutor, and the Judiciary Committee, and the Washington Post, and the New York Times and the AP and UPI and the networks - all of them were flooding the bloodstream of the nation's capital with antibodies focused on one thing: ridding the place of Richard Nixon.
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shauna (goldengateblond@macaw.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 15:32:09 JST shauna

this story (https://www.salon.com/2018/01/27/defeat-is-inevitable-everybody-knows-it-even-trump/) about the last days of Watergate is old, but I still think about this passage a lot — especially now. it’s so exquisitely written that I’ve remembered it for years.
my, how the mighty have fallen.

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