NEW YORK – During the four decades since the Watergate affair engulfed US President Richard Nixon, politicians have repeatedly ignored the scandal’s main lesson: the cover-up is worse than the crime. Like Nixon, they have paid a higher price for concealing their misdeeds than they would have for the misdeeds alone.
发自纽约——在水门事件将美国总统理查德·尼克松拉下马后近40年来，政治家们一再忽视了事件所留下的最深刻教训：掩盖罪行的行为往往比罪行本身更加恶劣。而尼克松这伙人为掩盖自身恶行所付出的代价也比恶行本身更为高昂。