watergate
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"My immediate thought is I've spent more interesting afternoons watching paint dry. I mean, this is a low-level committee. The Watergate hearings, it was not," he told BBC News.
From BBC
On June 18 Mr. McCartney celebrated his 30th birthday; the day before, five men had been arrested for breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate.
In the Watergate tapes case in 1974, the court issued a decision just 16 days after hearing arguments.
From Seattle Times
The habit goes back to Watergate after President Richard Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox, a Democrat, in the Saturday Night Massacre.
From Salon
Nixon, the Watergate tapes case – it took only three months.
From Salon
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