After the Fact: Breaking into Watergate
* Assessing the "TAPES" as a historical
source
* Assessing Richard Nixon as President
* The Legacy of Richard Nixon
Arthur Schlesinger on Richard Nixon and the results of the Watergate scandal:
.... whatever the ultimate outcome, Watergate did stop the revolutionary Presidency in its tracks. It blew away the mystique of the mandate and reinvigorated the constitutional separation of powers. If the independent judiciary, the free press, Congress and the executive agencies could not really claim too much credit as institutions for work performed within them by brave i ndividuals, nonetheless, they all drew new confidence as institutions from the exercise of power they had forgotten they possessed. The result could only be to brace and strenthen the inner balance of American democracy. Schlesinger, The Imperial Presidency, 1973.
