This election wasn't much fun to follow. For one thing, Nixon had it wrapped up before it started, since his opponents had nominated the hysterically liberal McGovern. And as much as I detested McGovern's policies, I had to feel sympathy for him as he tried to get 7 or 8 different guys to run with him for V.P., finally having to settle for the ill-mannered Sargent Shriver. I remember hearing the first report of the Watergate break-in that morning in June, on my radio. I got a sickening feeling right then that the Press would do whatever it could to magnify it into a big scandal and use it to destroy Nixon. After all, they never could forgive Nixon for revealing the truth about Alger Hiss way back in the 1940s.
