When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. — John 16:13

For some it is ancient history. But 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 Washington DC 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 th…