…the founders of this nation would have been stunned by the revelations of watergate. but they would have been especially proud of the judiciary they had created. there was a trial judge who did not accept distortions of the truth. there was an appellate court that acted with decisiveness and dispatch to meet the first challenge by president nixon opposing the release of the tapes. the same trial court and the same appellate court, without delay, decided that a crucial grand jury report should be transmitted to the house judiciary committee. and that trial court overruled the president’s claim of executive privilege in response to a subpoena duces tecum [to produce evidence] in a situation involving criminal wrongdoing. the supreme court, in the interest of expediting [hastening] justice, bypassed the court of appeals and then boldly and with a minimum of delay laid to rest the troublesome problems that beset the nation.…
from watergate we learned what generations before us have known: our constitution works. and during the watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one—absolutely no one—is above the law.…
source: leon jaworski, the right and the power: the prosecution of watergate, pocket books, 1977
according to leon jaworski, what is one impact of the watergate investigation on the united states