If Mr. Nixon goes down, how much will the conservative movement be affected?

In Mr. Rusher's view, not much: "I don't think that either liberal Republicans or

conservative Republicans, as such, have been touched in any important particular by

Watergate. It is the group in the White House which is neither liberal nor conservative

but administrative, non-political, the Haldeman-Ehrlichman group, that has been totally

destroyed by Watergate." To Mr. van den Haag, Nixon "is seen, not necessarily by the

conservatives themselves but by the non-conservatives, including those sympathetic to

conservatism and those not so sympathetic, as the symbol of how conservative the

Republican Party can get and win. No doubt Mr. Goldwater is seen as more

conservative, but not as winning." And on to civil disobedience, the ethics of bugging,

and whether the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office was really motivated

by concern for national security.