Playbill

June, 1974

Perhaps because Sam Ervin had packed his bag and checked out of the case, there seemed not long ago a growing tendency to turn the whole Watergate affair over to history. It was as if we were already trying to get distance on it, looking for that first tendentious volume that would assess what real devastation it had wrought. Some people probably also figured that Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward--now that they've received applause, apologies and a reported $450,000 from Robert Redford's movie co...