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Bob Schieffer: How I bungled Watergate
June 10, 2012
June 10, 2012
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assign me to the break-in, a story that made absolutely no sense to me.
Why would anyone break into a political headquarters? What secrets could possibly be found there? That's where you kept the yard signs and such.
Someone said it was just a bunch of crazies, and that was good enough for me. Why would anyone - especially anyone as far ahead in the polls as Nixon was at that point - break in to a campaign headquarters?
So I laid low, got on down to Miami, had a great summer, and that led to a long career covering
assign me to the break-in, a story that made absolutely no sense to me.
Why would anyone break into a political headquarters? What secrets could possibly be found there? That's where you kept the yard signs and such.
Someone said it was just a bunch of crazies, and that was good enough for me. Why would anyone - especially anyone as far ahead in the polls as Nixon was at that point - break in to a campaign headquarters?
So I laid low, got on down to Miami, had a great summer, and that led to a long career covering
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