Forty years
ago, President Richard Nixon, backed into a corner by
the Supreme Court, surrendered Watergate’s “smoking gun”
tape. Recorded six days after the break-in at Democratic
National Committee headquarters, it revealed the president
scheming to get the CIA to quash the investigation —
making it clear that he was in on the cover-up from the start. When
Nixon was out, Gerald Ford called it a “national nightmare.” Get
real, writes Gene Healy. Four decades on, it’s clearer than ever
that Aug. 9, 1974 — when Americans finally dethroned an imperial
president, and began reining in the imperial presidency — is a day
worth celebrating.
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