The combination of inflation--a debilitating disease that undermines people's sense of order and mocks sound values, such as hard work and looking optimistically toward the future--an intensely divisive war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandals had created a destructive, venomous environment when Ford took the oath of office.

FORBES: These Numbers Don't Figure

Bork's firsthand account of these events is of extraordinary importance to anyone interested in the history of the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandals not least in the way it explains the honorable logic of the Saturday Night Massacre, an event too often over-simplified, with Bork cast in the villain role.

WSJ: Book Review: Saving Justice

It is now a well-established tradition in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate, " establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Front-gate