Prolonging Vietnam, part 2: why was the Watergate bugged?

The secrecy, manipulation and deceit of the Nixon years had no larger foci than the two consuming topics of Vietnam and the Kennedys, and for President Richard M. Nixon, those two topics were joined. The inescapable conclusion is that Watergate stemmed from them.

Nixon knew how unpopular the Vietnam War was, and against this backdrop of Vietnam as well as the larger backdrop of the Cold War, Nixon was secretly pursuing d