“The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.”

—  Gerald Ford

Remarks about the Committee to Re-elect the President, as quoted in The New York Times (31 March 1974)
1970s

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