Searching for the Real Nixon Scandal: A Last Inference
From December 1976
Editor’s Note: Two years after Richard Nixon’s resignation, in the wake of congressional investigators’ revelations about previous Presidents’ abuses of power and misuses of our intelligence agencies, it is unclear what Nixon’s fall meant, or what the House impeachment inquiry had to do with it. So argues the author, who served with the impeachment inquiry staff. Her study of the Watergate debris, before and after, led her to “an inescapable inference"—a shocking, almost unthinkable, but logical explanation of what the ultimate scandal that drove Nixon from the White House must have been.