The following is a letter to the editor that was sent to the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Joan Moore, Portage
The article relating to Watergate 40 years later was timely, but I disagree with WMU's History Professor Ed Martini's assessment that "Watergate was the moment when people lost faith in government."
In reality it was President Lyndon Johnson's lie that dragged our country into the Vietnam War that was the defining moment of mistrusting the U.S. government. We lost thousands of America's finest in that war. Watergate was a blip on the screen in comparison.
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