When the 'Watergate Babies' rode their own wave of anger
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If foreign-policy restrainers of both parties are looking for a model the new Congress can follow once it takes office in January, they could do worse than to refer back to the 1974 midterm election that brought to Washington a tidal wave of young Democrats who quickly passed legislation placing unprecedented constraints on the power of the “Imperial Presidency,” which had reached its zenith under former President Richard Nixon.In many respects, the parallels between the 1974 midterms and the results of Tuesday’s election are eerie. Though Nixon, whose own imperial pretensions were more sartor
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