...when I volunteered to stump the streets on Election Day from my university's Demo Party "get out the vote" effort during Nixon Redux.
I kept arguing to Repubs "Are you really going to vote for a man who'll be indicted and will probably have to step down during his second term?"
And to a voter, they looked at me with a total blank.
It took forever for Watergate to finally and fully come to fruition.
But, if anyone remembers the closing sequence of the movie "All the President's Men" you see how slowly these things take to build...until the reporting and investigative tipping point catapults the events to excape velocity speed.
The movie's final scene comes down fast...rapid fire...headline, after headline, after headline...and Woodward and Bernstein typing and typing and typing...(for me this resonates with the current crises' "blogger chatter")...until the final "fade to black" for the Nixon White House:
Somehow I believe I remember that the final headline was "Nixon Resigns" in the film.
It felt like it took forever in real life, as I recall.
But when it broke...it broke like a tsumani.