> Burnett’s stock archive, we should note, includes coverage of the Watergate hearings in 1973, an impeachment hearing that felt, Burnett says, less “tribal.”<p>I won't pretend to know much about Watergate or what he meant by "tribal", but I thought it ironic that hearings about one party literally tampering on the property of another, felt less tribal.
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