for young people who fled to Canada to avoid the draft, his sometime musings that marijuana might better be legalized, and his purported support of legalized abortion."1 Many felt that McGovern's views may have been more radical and outlandish than some had supported. After Nixon was elected to office, "It appeared in 1972 that American politics was entering an age of calm consensus. The economy was temporarily strong: opposition to the Vietnam War had faded as the two sides negotiated in Paris for an end to the war."6 Then in Nixon's political career "A warlike atmosphere between the media (as well as other perceived enemies of the administration that appeared on Nixon's "enemies list") and the mushrooming Watergate scandal combined to create a dark side to U.S. politics in the 1970's. At its simplest level, the Watergate affair was "a third-rate burglary" and a subsequent cover-up by President Nixon and his aides. In the summer of 1972, several employees of the Committee to Re-elect the President were arrested after they were discovered breaking into and bugging the Democratic National Committee's offices at the posh Watergate complex in Washington. The break-in was not a major issue in the 1972 election, but the next year congressional committees began an investigation."6 Along with the congressional committees investigation, two reporters from the Washington Post, named Bob Woodward, and Carl Berstein did some investigating of their own. They had a politician who knew about all that was going on with the Watergate scandal, nicknamed "Deep Throat." De...
