DEAR READER: On March 21, 1974, America was awash in Watergate. Slade Gorton, Washington’s attorney general, had admired Richard M. Nixon, welcoming his support on the campaign trail. Now, Gorton found the escalating evidence of presidential misconduct “profoundly troubling.”
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