In our modern world, every worthy scandal has the word “gate” suffixed to it, drawing comparison to the mother of all scandals, Watergate, a political crisis in which Richard Nixon’s administration was accused of covering up the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters located in the Watergate office complex, leading to his resignation. 

The true scandal, though, is that our media, for over 50 years, have wrongly attributed shameful “cover-up” conduct to Nixon, while the overarching cover-up was that of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post.