Watergate first broke in June of 1972, a few months before the US Presidential elections of that year.

The US electorate was as accident-prone then as it was last November. They failed to see its significance.

In July 1974, two years shy of three months into his Presidency, Nixon had no choice but to hightail it out of town, as the floodgates of Watergate burst open on the scale of a Hoover Dam.

They were the most tortuous years in American politics, almost rivalling the Vietnam War.

So, should Muscat stay put in Castille after 3 June it's far and away from being end-of-story.

At least three Watergates will be lying in wait.

 

Joe Genovese

Birkirkara