"As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate committee, he posed the question: 'What was Watergate?' Countless answers have been offered in the 40 years since June 17, 1972, when a team of burglars wearing business suits and rubber gloves was arrested at 2:30 a.m. at the headquarters of the Democratic Party in the Watergate office building in Washington. Four days afterward, the Nixon White House offered its answer: 'Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it was,' press secretary Ronald Ziegler scoffed, dismissing the incident as a 'third-rate burglary.'"
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