For some it is ancient history. For others it is as fresh as yesterday. I speak of 1972 when the word "cover-up" came into our consciousness in a big way -- the cover-up by then President Richard Nixon regarding the Watergate scandal. Assured of a landslide victory in his election for a second term, Richard Nixon, overborne with anxiety, apparently felt that was not enough. So he authorized the so-called "Watergate Plumbers," headed by G. Gordon Liddy, to break into the Democratic Headquarters in the posh Watergate apartment complex. Bungling the third-rate burglary job, the "Plumbers" were found to be connected to Republican officials higher and higher up in the administration, until the press was pointing its powerful fingers at President Nixon himself. Was he involved in authorizing the…