Watergate & Mugwumps

As a former Connecticut resident who voted against Lowell Weicker, I was particularly fascinated by his conduct during the first phase of the Watergate hearings, and by the favorable impression he made among liberal commentators. No one seems to remember his race against Joseph Duffey in 1970, the year of Spiro Agnew’s exhortations against radical liberals and the sinister forces behind them. While the Vice-President called Duffey a “revisionist Marxist”—a category even mo...