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SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO: In an auto service shop of this prosperous suburb (pop. 36,000) of Cleveland, Mechanic Ken Masshart, 35, ridiculed Watergate for months as just another political squabble. He even used to skip over newspaper stories about it. But Spiro Agnew's resignation convinced him that something was terribly wrong in Washington. He explains: "All of a sudden, I started reading about politics again; I got wrapped up in it." For the image of the country, he thinks that "Nixon should resign before impeachment, if it comes to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Main Street Revisited: Changing Views on Watergate | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...about. The number of disillusioned Republicans is incredible." Yet in an auto-service shop in the poorer section across town, the workers are fed up with Watergate. "What the hell's the big deal?" booms Mechanic Carl Reed, 51. "Both parties have been doing it for years." Ken Masshart, 34, blasts: "I'm so sick of hearing about it that I couldn't care less. I just jump right over it in the paper and read something else." On the first day of the Senate hearings, Cleveland TV stations received 2,500 phone calls from irate viewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: How Main Street Views Watergate | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

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