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  • October 8, 2017
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  • Washington Post

The Watergate Trap: Seeing So Much of the Present through Watergate Makes It Harder to See the Future

By: J. Peter Scoblic
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Keywords

Time; Politics; Analogy; Future; Learning By Thinking

Citation

Scoblic, J. Peter. "The Watergate Trap: Seeing So Much of the Present through Watergate Makes It Harder to See the Future." Washington Post (October 8, 2017), B1.
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