"One person who seems to have known this was Nixon himself. For all his labors in the field of post-presidential image-making, Nixon would confess in candid moments that he doubted their efficacy. In 1990, after he had published one of his many forgettable memoirs, he sighed to his research assistant that the book had failed to change his public reputation or blot out the stubborn fact that no other president ever directed a criminal conspiracy from the White House. 'None of the other stuff in there, like on the Russians or the other personal stuff, made it into the news or even the reviews,' he despaired. 'Watergate—that’s all anyone wants.'"
David Greenberg in The New Republic argues that the "Watergate wars just ended."
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