[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They were relentless in the goal of removing Nixon from office.

For no other reason than he was a Republican.

[marktwain]

They were relentless in the goal of removing Nixon from office. For no other reason than he was a Republican.

It seems to me, in hindsight, that the media were flexing their muscles to see just how much power they had. It turned out that they had enough power to remove a sitting president. Watergate was a media coup.

Several Democrat presidents, including Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson, had done much worse, and had never been called on it.