Nixon could get away with it today: Ray Watford

Nixon could get away with it today: Ray Watford

HILLIARD, Ohio -- On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex, setting off a constitutional crisis that eventually shattered a presidency. More than five decades later, we remember the scandal as a lesson in institutional resilience. But as this anniversary passes, I fear that if a president committed comparable abuses of power today, our fractured system might allow him to get aw…