A Watergate anniversary: that night the system actually worked

What’s happening in Washington these days makes Richard Nixon seem sane and the democracy of the day look like a well-oiled machine.
When Richard Nixon announced his resignation on Aug. 8, 1974, it set a ground-grazing bar that Donald Trump and the Republican Party haven’t tried to reach, writes Lisa Van Dusen.
We’ve all seen the only clip that mattered so many times, it’s hard to believe that the five seconds it took for Richard Nixon to say, “Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow,” came 

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