CBS Evening News
January 18th, 1972
Karl Rove, GOP College Director of the Republican National Committee, third pillar of the Nixon Campaign tripod (the other two being the White House and the Campaign for Re-Election of the President).
Let's re-elect Nixon!
On Oct. 27, 1972, at anchor Walter Cronkite's insistence CBS ran a piece on Watergate that was 14 minutes long -- the equivalent of two-thirds of a front page. The Post may have been writing stories, but they weren't getting a lot of attention outside of DC. THis was afterall, pre-Internet.
