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Watergate was a watershed in the history of American politics and it may well prove to be such a crucial junction in the history of American education. A generation earlier, the launching of a Russian satellite proved to have an enormous impact on American educational systems, as Sputnik became the catalyst and the symbolic rallying point for a crash program in developing American scientific and technological education.
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The reaction to Watergate illustrates the dangers well enough. In the midst of the Watergate exposures, Ambassador Godley testified before Congress that 15,000-20,000 Thai mercenaries had been employed by the U.S. in Laos, in direct and explicit violation of Congressional legislation. The confirmation of Pathet Lao charges that had been largely ignored or ridiculed in the West evoked little editorial comment or public indignation, though it is a far more serious matter than anything revealed at the Ervin hearings.
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Hunt and fellow operative G. Gordon Liddy, along with the five arrested at the Watergate, were indicted on federal charges three months later. Hunt and his recruits pleaded guilty in January 1973, and McCord and Liddy were found guilty.
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Liberal commentators sigh with relief that Kissinger has barely been tainted -- a bit of questionable wiretapping, but no close involvement in the Watergate shenanigans. Yet by any objective standards the man is one of the great mass murderers of modern times. He presided over the expansion of the war to Cambodia (with consequences that are now well-known) and the vicious escalation of the bombings of Laos, not to speak of the atrocities committed in Vietnam as he sought to achieve a victory of some sort for imperial power in Indochina. But he wasn't implicated in the burglary at the Watergate or the undermining of Muskie, so his hands are clean.
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Her estimation came before Watergate. "Now," Nixon said a few years ago, "historians are more likely to lead with "He resigned from office.' The jury has already come in, and there's nothing that's going to change it. There's no appeal. Historians will judge it harshly."
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At 2:30 a.m., police arrest five men at the Watergate complex attempting to fix the bugs they planted earlier. At his arraignment, one of the accused identifies himself as an agent of the CIA. Another is found to be a security aide for the CRP.
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