How Bad Was the McConnell Recording? Watergate Bad or Gestapo Bad?
"I sure hope that no one breaks into my office this time."
--Former South Dakota Senator George McGovern, as quoted by The Reliable Source, on his law firm moving its Washington D.C. offices into the Watergate complex. McGovern was the Democratic nominee in 1972, when the DNC offices at the Watergate were broken into.
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