Shattered Glass

Watergate stands out as the quintessential scandal of the past half-century, which has lost much, if not all, of its relevance over time. With the public becoming increasingly cynical and politicians losing much of their moral authority, the myths surrounding Watergate, immortalised in Alan J. Pakula’s *All the President’s Men*, have long since died. One of the myths to be unravelled was the narrative of heroic jour…